I have Jellyfin installed on a remote machine, connected to my laptop and phone via Tailscale. Is it possible to cast from that machine to a gen 2 Chromecast?
From the Jellyfin instance installed on my laptop, in the same LAN, I can authenticate from the phone and cast to the Chromecast, so all the pieces work.
I have tried announcing the subnet from the laptop (--advertise-routes=192.168.1.0/24), with IP forwarding etc. The remote machine accepts the route and can ping the Chromecast (192.168.1.100). From the phone I can connect to the server and start casting. The screen shows the Jellyfin logo, but playing anything has no effect.
Has someone managed to make it work?
EDIT: As I feared, it seems it’s not possible. I can’t change the routing table of my ISP’s router, so the Chromecast can’t reach the remote server.
I’ll try to find a newer Chromecast, or maybe just get a Raspberry and install the full client there. Thanks everyone!
I use this same method to stream to Chromecast regularly (with Kodi). I will sometimes have issues with some encodings, or desyncs when pausing, but it is solid enough to support streaming full movies at 4K.
How do you cast from Kodi to Chromcast, with a plugin? Also, do subtitles work correctly when casting?
To be clearer on a part that I accidentally glanced over, I’ll use Yatse (connected to Kodi) to play the stream on VLC Android, which then can proxy cast to the Chromecast, no plugin needed. But the Yatse part is just a convenience - as long as you can get the video stream directly (ex. http://192.168.x.x:8080/vfs/%2Fmedia%2Fuser%2Fmovie_drive%2Fmovies%2Fgood_movie.mp4 or similar), VLC android can play (and cast) that directly. One possible way to get this URL is to access the Kodi web interface, stream a video to your browser, and copy the streaming link while it is playing.
And as for subtitles, I think they cast fine too as long as they are part of the video file itself and not a separate .srt.