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I have a 16.04 box running Kodi (15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1), and would like to have a cast to Kodi-option.

I'm aware that Kodi supports AirPlay, but support for this on Android phones, Windows and OpenSuSE clients is limited. The browser used on clients is Chrome / Chromium, and thus a Chromecast-like solution would be preferred.

I don't need exactly what Chromecast provides; installing additional plugins/software (on both clients and Kodi) is acceptable.

A solution that can stream movies stored on the remote device, and content like YouTube is preferred over a solution that only works with limited media types.

So is there any good way to cast content from Chrome / Chromium on Windows, Android and Linux, to Kodi?

vidarlo
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Kodi supports UPNP/DNLA out-of-the-box (see the wiki here)!

There is pretty decent support for this across platforms

Robert Riedl
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Oh yeah, I did exactly this! Well slightly different.

My Kodi was a recalbox https://recalbox.com

And my caster is Plex https://plex.tv (on my desktop)

Plex is fantastic, there is a free option, and it does a lot of cover parsing for your movies. I have plex server on my desktop. You browse to your server localhost:32400 with chrome and you can edit your library there. Plex supports UPNP and a bunch of transcoding options.

market_zero
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I've made some small Java application (needs Java 1.8+) to play video content from laptop on Kodi and since 1.1.0-SNAPSHOT it can make some screencast (need FFmpeg installed) enter image description here

Igor Maznitsa
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There is an chrome plug-in called : Play to Kodi for Youtube and more.

This should work on Windows and linux with chrome-browser

For Android there is an app called Yatse: Kodi remote

Check out this article for more information :

How to Cast YouTube and Other Web Videos to Kodi (Like the Chromecast)

S Sam-Sin
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