Paul Arterburn

VidCast - Chromecast for the rest of the web

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Jason Evanish
Late to the party, but cheers @parterburn Just watched some talks from Vimeo seemlessly. Helps so much given that casting straight from the chrome browser generally has been horrible for me.
Paul Arterburn
We all heard the news that Google released the dev kit to build out Chromecast apps yesterday so I spent the evening throwing together my first app, which I must say came together as something that's pretty damn useful. You can visit, for example, a TED talk, hit the bookmarklet and it will pull down the MP4 behind the scenes and present it on a layer that's now Chromecast friendly. Same goes for Vimeo, Plex.tv (without having to pay the $5/mo) and a plethora of other video sites. Definitely open to hearing the thoughts of the community!
Corey Gwin
Take that Plex! :D
Paul Arterburn
Now now, @corey_gwin - Plex is still amazing. Paying customer myself...they made Chromecast actually useable! My little bookmarklet only throws up existing MP4's where Plex transcodes AVI/etc to work as well.