Is there a Chromecast equivalent? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by vrek@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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I'm not looking for Chromecast but I have a Linux system hooked up to a TV and ether net. I want a way to pick a YouTube or Amazon prime or Netflix video on my phone and display it on the TV via the Linux pc. Is that possible? If so what software can do it?

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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

This is a somewhat hacky solution, but I've set up a thing in the past, where I would share a URL to my desktop via KDE Connect. And then on my desktop, I configured the default browser to be a script that I wrote.
This script would check, if the URL is a YouTube URL, and if so then open it via MPV (with yt-dlp also installed on the system).
If not, then just open it in Firefox as normal.

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