

Setting up Cast to TV for casting your desktop to a Chromecast, in Debian / Ubuntu / Pop!_OS, Fedora or Arch Linux / Manjaro You might also like: Chromecast Extension For Firefox fx_cast 0.0.5 Adds Support For YouTube, Subtitles For Local Media. It can also cast local pictures, video and audio files with optional transcoding, GPU-accelerated video encoding for low CPU usage, subtitles, and more. So use whichever solution suits your needs best.Ĭast to TV can do a lot more than cast your desktop to a Chromecast. Google Chrome has a couple of advantages over Cast to TV too: it has a lower stream delay (Cast to TV currently has a delay of about 3 seconds), and it works with desktop environments other than GNOME Shell.

it supports Wayland, this probably being the only way to cast your desktop to a Chromecast device from Wayland.it streams your desktop with working audio, which doesn't work on Linux with Google Chrome.Cast to TV has some advantages over Google Chrome for Chromecast desktop streaming though: Officially, you can stream your Linux desktop to a Chromecast by using Google Chrome. The step-by-step instructions are for Debian / Ubuntu / Pop!_OS, Fedora and Arch Linux / Manjaro (the steps should be the same on any GNOME Shell based Linux distribution, but the packages might have different names). This article explains how to use Cast to TV (and its helper add-on) to cast your GNOME Shell desktop to a Chromecast device, with sound, which works with both X11 and Wayland.
