It's actually not very
hard, since VLC already supports transcoding and streaming to a socket. I
found a Java project that was experimenting with it, but I don't have
the link available at the moment. I tested it out by running VLC like
this:
(you need to write a custom app for that part), and it mostly-worked. I was having problems with video/audio sync, but that might be something I did wrong, I didn't spend very long on it. I imagine once we can release apps somebody will write a simple one that takes a URL and tells the Chromecast to stream it, and that's really all you need
vlc -Irc --sout="#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,width=500,acodec=vorb,ab=128,audio-sync,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:http{mux=webm,dst=:8000/cast.webm}" http://machine-running-vlc:8000/cast.webm(you need to write a custom app for that part), and it mostly-worked. I was having problems with video/audio sync, but that might be something I did wrong, I didn't spend very long on it. I imagine once we can release apps somebody will write a simple one that takes a URL and tells the Chromecast to stream it, and that's really all you need
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