Playing your movies on TV using Chromecast

While VLC had announced their intent to support Chromecast in Feb 2015, from what we could gather, it is not officially supported still. Here is the official response from VLC on this topic. "We're currently working on it but can't give a release date." :-)

We analyzed the information available in forums, blogs and press releases (E.g. Reddit, Allaboutchromecast, Android Central) and a few websites and here is the summary.

The best option seem to be to play the video in the Chrome tab and screencasting that Chrome tab.

• You can do it through Google Chrome (browser)
• Upgrade to the latest version of Google Cast Extension
• Run video in Chrome and cast your tab
• Follow the instructions (from Step 2) :  http://allaboutchromecast.com/chromecast-how-to-guide/how-to-stream-local-video-to-chromecast/  

That seems to do the trick.   If not, you can try the following (more involved reading)

• If that has any issues you can follow the instructions from
• http://vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com/video/vlc-media-player-how-to-stream-from-vlc-to-chromecast-20445

• If you come across MKV viles, here is the way to take care of that
• http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-chromecast/307019-how-cast-mkv-files-your-chromecast.html

If that does not work and if you have the time and energy, here is a (slightly old) Redit thread on this topic.


Did that help? Can you try and let us know?