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Google Cast (Chromecast) in Electron #7024
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Thought I'd chime in here. First of all the GPMDP/electron-chromecast module is hacky to say the least. It is more of a polyfill than an implementation and it does the bare minimum required to "Just Work"(TM) with basic cast usage. I would love it if the Google Cast implementation inside Chromium could be ported to Electron. However (and this is related to #5612) there are a number of issues I came across while attempting a port previously.
Personally I have tried to do this implementation before and failed at these rather significant hurdles (hence the |
I'm closing this issue and reopening #869 since it is the first issue on chromecast. |
Enhancement
Now that Google Cast is built into Chrome and is a part of chromium it would be awesome to have this functionality baked into Electron.
There is already an Electron wrapper for Chromecast (GPMDP/electron-chromecast via @MarshallOfSound in #869), so maybe the best approach would be to integrate that wrapper directly into Electron.
Having Cast functionality out of the box would be useful for a lot of electron apps in the ecosystem today, for example:
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