localcast

This is a small personal project that I use to send videos from my home server to my chromecast. If you are really adventurous, feel free to check out the code and get it running for yourself.

You will need to add a JSON config file at server/config.json. Mine looks like this:

{
    "port" : 8999,
    "root" : "D:\\Video\\TV",
    "virtuals" : [
        { "name" : "Frank", "directory" : "G:\\Video" },
        { "name" : "Public", "directory" : "H:\\Public"},
        { "name" : "Archive", "directory" : "H:\\Video\\TV Archive"}
    ]
}

Then, you will need node. I developed this with node 4, and currently run node 10 -- this project is quite old actually.

npm install
npm run dev

This will start the server and print out a message like this:

listening at 192.168.1.100:8999

You can then go to this URL on any device on your network (try it on your phone from the couch, it's great). The UI should be self-explanatory (if you are adventurous and willing to just click buttons without a tutorial).

H264/X264 MP4 video work best, but if you have anything else, the server will attempt to convert it at realtime.

Also, and I can't stress this enough, use at your own risk.

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