terça-feira, 8 de julho de 2014

Google Chromecast - IOS



After testing the Chromecast (CC) with my iphone the truth is that if you only have IOS devices the Chromecast isn't for you.
Even if you Iphone is jailbroken you can't use the full potencial of the CC.

There some apps that are compatible with the CCon the App Store , the one that works really well is the You Tube app , that works flawlessly.

If you are looking to stream local stored videos on your iphone or ipad the best app for that is the Real Player Cloud , it can even play media from the cloud and best of all its free.

Since the main purpose for buying the Chromecast was to watch movies and tv shows , i'm sorry to said that (until now) there's no way to stream XBMC from you IOS device to the Chromecast.

The solution i found was to use Movie Box and Real Player Cloud together.
Movie Box is and app  (only available through cydia) that allows you to stream and download movies and tv shows directly from the web and if you are running some XBMC distro, you can stream Movie Box using Air Play.



The app is not compatible with the CC, so the workaround i found was to download the media using Movie Box and using Ifile to move it to the Real Player app Folder, it's not really a stream but at least you can view the downloaded media (you probably can you iFunBox for this to).



Here are the source and destination for this to work.

Movie Box download folder /var/mobile/Library/Artworks

RealPlayer media folder /var/mobile/Applications/"you need to find the folder"/Documents




After that the media file you downloaded from Movie Box should be available on Real Player and now you can stream it to your TV using Chromecast.



  • List of IOS apps with support for ChromeCast

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