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rydgaze
rydgaze

Reputation: 1060

Is custom receiver required for playing H264/AAC video stream on Chromecast

I have an IOS and Android app that can currently play video from a remote server. The remote server sends H264/AAC stream which can be played on the IOS or Android device.

I am working on supporting casting it to a Chromecast device and using the tutorial I was able to create the route button to select the chromecast.

My question is, in order to play this stream, do I need to create a custom receiver app to run on the chromecast (and get it whitelisted etc) or is there a default "media player" running on chromecast that can be used to play the stream? I can send a authenticated URL (so there is no custom authentication etc required)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1659

Answers (1)

Les Vogel
Les Vogel

Reputation: 7132

Your app currently would need it's own Receiver to be used by both iOS and Android. There is a default Receiver for Android if you only use the Android MediaRouter API's. There is no equivalent functionality for iOS.

That said, you can just use the simple sample Receiver that comes with the sample app.

Upvotes: 3

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