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Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.

23 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 7 stories, 16 comments · first 2016-04-25 · latest 2025-08-19

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  1. You might want to look into catt for Chromecast: - https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt/ But I'm not aware of what the equivalent would be for Amazon-type casting I wrote a wrapper around catt for playing music to my house speaker-groups.…
    comment by xk3 · 2024-04-07 · in Show HN: Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser (Jellyfin/Plex alternative)
  2. …language / library pairs exist as well, if Python's not exactly in your "bag of tricks". - [0]: https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt - [1]: https://beets.readthedocs.io/
    comment by blooalien · 2023-10-16 · in Navidrome: Open-Source Software to enjoy your music collection from anywhere
  3. How does this differ from, say, catt[1]? [1] https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt
    comment by heavyset_go · 2022-02-17 · in Show HN: ytcast – cast YouTube videos to your smart TV from command-line
  4. …the same, except it supports whatever site youtube-dl supports (which is basically everything): https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt/
    comment by stavros · 2022-02-16 · in Show HN: ytcast – cast YouTube videos to your smart TV from command-line
  5. catt (Cast All The Things!) is your friend. https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt You might need a VPN as whatever is running catt must be able to connect to your chromecast and chromecast must be able to pull from whatever is running…
    comment by notyourday · 2021-09-22 · in FFmpeg to WebRTC
  6. …time, but the "Renderer" option in macOS VLC seems to work well. Unrelated: Have you tried catt? https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt
    comment by hunter2_ · 2021-02-02 · in VideoLAN is 20 years old today
  7. You could probably use catt[0] and do `catt cast_site <the URL>`, but I haven't tested it. [0] https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt/
    comment by StavrosK · 2021-01-19 · in I made Deskreen, open source app to make any device a second screen for computer
  8. I've been using catt ( https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt ) for years for that purpose. Basically: pip3 install catt And then: catt cast <any image/song/video/URL supported by youtube-dl>
    comment by input_sh · 2020-09-19 · in Show HN: Control Chromecasts from Linux
  9. …is limited to media, Catt lets me render websites just fine. I believe Catt's author is on HN. [0] https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt
    comment by notyourday · 2020-03-01 · in NymphCast: Casual attempt at open alternative to Chromecast
  10. …(catt)[0], which makes any of the hundreds of websites supported by youtube-dl[1] cast-able. [0] https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt/ [1] https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html
    comment by input_sh · 2019-11-29 · in Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything
  11. Possibly, but not all of them are. This isn't, for example: https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt And at most we got a few users asking about why they couldn't install it on 2. Maybe my users are just better-behaved.
    comment by StavrosK · 2019-03-31 · in On Being a Free Software Maintainer
  12. I wrote a library for casting things, called catt: https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt/ It supports youtube-dl so you can just do `catt cast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ` and it will work.
    comment by StavrosK · 2019-01-23 · in Chromecast Support for Firefox
  13. https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt
    comment by atomi · 2018-05-01 · in How to send local files to Chromecast with Python
  14. There's also this python based cli caster https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt
    comment by atomi · 2018-02-16 · in Show HN: Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcoding and subtitles
  15. …Python program, I have good results with Cast All The Things, which plugs into youtube-dl. https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt
    comment by dTal · 2018-02-09 · in VLC 3.0 release
  16. Here's a command line client I wrote: https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt
    comment by StavrosK · 2016-08-29 · in Google Cast is now built-in to Chrome