Another idea for streaming movies

[ckidwell20]

I'm sure everyone knows that you can simply drop a video file (most video files at least) into Chrome and it casts it very nicely on chromecast. I made a very simple webpage and when cast to my chromecast it looks nice and is an easy place to have all my movies organized. Right now I only have movie's that I ripped for my son for his iPad but I think it works great. If anyone wants the files let me know and I'll be glad to send them your way, not the movie files of course!

 

[alfredoymayda]

that's what i want to do too. Have all my ripped movies on one site organized. Please when you can send me the files. Thanks in advance. Al

 

[ioo]

Check out Plex Media Server. The Plex Web interface works pretty well.

They are also working on adding Chromecast native functionality to their apps.

 

[PhobicCarrot]

How do I get the Chomecast to pull from the Plex Media Server?

 

[Moses Smith]

How do I get the Chomecast to pull from the Plex Media Server?

You don't. You have to start the plex movie in chrome and tab cast it.

 

[Reptile1990]

IS this some thing that is easy to set up? what about us mac users? Is it still possible to do?

 

[ckidwell20]

It's not hart to do, and should work fine on a mac also. It's just a simple website I made. I have since switched to using Plex, which I only found out about a couple of days ago. I use Plex to connect to my Roku, which works great. But if you're interested in the files I uploaded them to my box account, the url for that is https://app.box.com/chromecastmovies I added some links to pandora and netflix at the top. If anyone needs any help figuring them out you can e-mail me chris @ kidwell (dot) me and I'll try to help you as much as possible! I used Notepad for all the HTML.