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Chromecast Full Screen Trouble
Anyone out there using Chromecast?
I thought it to be a neat little wifi device for the price. But I can't get it to do what I need it to do, and what web posts say it can do - namely mirror a full W7 PC screen to my TV. Has anyone successfully done that? If so can you tell me how? There are several web posts describing how to do it. For example: http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/26...not-just-tabs/ I do have my Chromecast partially working. I can 'cast' Youtube movie clips from my PC to TV just fine. Same for Google Chrome clips. Maybe I am missing something? Thanks Me |
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Chromecast Full Screen Trouble
"Paul" schreef in bericht
... wrote: Anyone out there using Chromecast? I thought it to be a neat little wifi device for the price. But I can't get it to do what I need it to do, and what web posts say it can do - namely mirror a full W7 PC screen to my TV. Has anyone successfully done that? If so can you tell me how? There are several web posts describing how to do it. For example: http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/26...not-just-tabs/ I do have my Chromecast partially working. I can 'cast' Youtube movie clips from my PC to TV just fine. Same for Google Chrome clips. Maybe I am missing something? Thanks Me Did you find the "down arrow" in the upper right hand corner ? http://www.howtogeek.com/199565/mirr...le-chromecast/ Paul Looks very interesting! I have a flatscreen led TV Philips 32PFL3517H which I normally use to watch satellite receiver through a HDMI cable. It also has a (proprietary) USB wifi adapter. This can be used by two apps on the TV: one for playing from a media server on PC (like TVersity) and the other is for playing from Youtube. Using the "pair" to TV option on Youtube I can search and control with my laptop youtube videos on the flatscreen TV. This works fine, but it is of course limited to Youtube. I would also like to be able to play other sources from internet on the mentioned TV, like http://www.npo.nl/uitzending-gemist. This is a service to watch TV programmes you missed. I have no way to do that. Until now I'm limited to watching that on the computer screen. From your link I understand this also possible using Chromecast? After all it can stream anything from internet, even the whole PC desktop? NB I have no compatible mobile, only an old symbian telephone Noki E75. -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os |
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Chromecast Full Screen Trouble
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 13:21:55 +0200, "Linea Recta"
wrote: "Paul" schreef in bericht ... wrote: Anyone out there using Chromecast? I thought it to be a neat little wifi device for the price. But I can't get it to do what I need it to do, and what web posts say it can do - namely mirror a full W7 PC screen to my TV. Has anyone successfully done that? If so can you tell me how? There are several web posts describing how to do it. For example: http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/26...not-just-tabs/ I do have my Chromecast partially working. I can 'cast' Youtube movie clips from my PC to TV just fine. Same for Google Chrome clips. Maybe I am missing something? Thanks Me Did you find the "down arrow" in the upper right hand corner ? Oh yeh. After my post I found that I was able to do this on my Galaxy tablet, So if I can't get my PC to work its no loss. Me http://www.howtogeek.com/199565/mirr...le-chromecast/ Paul Looks very interesting! I have a flatscreen led TV Philips 32PFL3517H which I normally use to watch satellite receiver through a HDMI cable. It also has a (proprietary) USB wifi adapter. This can be used by two apps on the TV: one for playing from a media server on PC (like TVersity) and the other is for playing from Youtube. Using the "pair" to TV option on Youtube I can search and control with my laptop youtube videos on the flatscreen TV. This works fine, but it is of course limited to Youtube. I would also like to be able to play other sources from internet on the mentioned TV, like http://www.npo.nl/uitzending-gemist. This is a service to watch TV programmes you missed. I have no way to do that. Until now I'm limited to watching that on the computer screen. From your link I understand this also possible using Chromecast? After all it can stream anything from internet, even the whole PC desktop? NB I have no compatible mobile, only an old symbian telephone Noki E75. |
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Daughter uses Chromecast extension for Google Chrome to cast laptop to TV
and Showbox for movies. Kenny wrote in message ... On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 13:21:55 +0200, "Linea Recta" wrote: "Paul" schreef in bericht ... wrote: Anyone out there using Chromecast? I thought it to be a neat little wifi device for the price. But I can't get it to do what I need it to do, and what web posts say it can do - namely mirror a full W7 PC screen to my TV. Has anyone successfully done that? If so can you tell me how? There are several web posts describing how to do it. For example: http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/26...not-just-tabs/ I do have my Chromecast partially working. I can 'cast' Youtube movie clips from my PC to TV just fine. Same for Google Chrome clips. Maybe I am missing something? Thanks Me Did you find the "down arrow" in the upper right hand corner ? Oh yeh. After my post I found that I was able to do this on my Galaxy tablet, So if I can't get my PC to work its no loss. Me http://www.howtogeek.com/199565/mirr...le-chromecast/ Paul Looks very interesting! I have a flatscreen led TV Philips 32PFL3517H which I normally use to watch satellite receiver through a HDMI cable. It also has a (proprietary) USB wifi adapter. This can be used by two apps on the TV: one for playing from a media server on PC (like TVersity) and the other is for playing from Youtube. Using the "pair" to TV option on Youtube I can search and control with my laptop youtube videos on the flatscreen TV. This works fine, but it is of course limited to Youtube. I would also like to be able to play other sources from internet on the mentioned TV, like http://www.npo.nl/uitzending-gemist. This is a service to watch TV programmes you missed. I have no way to do that. Until now I'm limited to watching that on the computer screen. From your link I understand this also possible using Chromecast? After all it can stream anything from internet, even the whole PC desktop? NB I have no compatible mobile, only an old symbian telephone Noki E75. |
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Chromecast Full Screen Trouble
I believe Firefox, VLC Player and even the BBC are all working on Chromecast
support but nothing final yet for Windows, only Android and IOS. Kenny "Kenny" wrote in message ... Daughter uses Chromecast extension for Google Chrome to cast laptop to TV and Showbox for movies. Kenny wrote in message ... On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 13:21:55 +0200, "Linea Recta" wrote: "Paul" schreef in bericht ... wrote: Anyone out there using Chromecast? I thought it to be a neat little wifi device for the price. But I can't get it to do what I need it to do, and what web posts say it can do - namely mirror a full W7 PC screen to my TV. Has anyone successfully done that? If so can you tell me how? There are several web posts describing how to do it. For example: http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/26...not-just-tabs/ I do have my Chromecast partially working. I can 'cast' Youtube movie clips from my PC to TV just fine. Same for Google Chrome clips. Maybe I am missing something? Thanks Me Did you find the "down arrow" in the upper right hand corner ? Oh yeh. After my post I found that I was able to do this on my Galaxy tablet, So if I can't get my PC to work its no loss. Me http://www.howtogeek.com/199565/mirr...le-chromecast/ Paul Looks very interesting! I have a flatscreen led TV Philips 32PFL3517H which I normally use to watch satellite receiver through a HDMI cable. It also has a (proprietary) USB wifi adapter. This can be used by two apps on the TV: one for playing from a media server on PC (like TVersity) and the other is for playing from Youtube. Using the "pair" to TV option on Youtube I can search and control with my laptop youtube videos on the flatscreen TV. This works fine, but it is of course limited to Youtube. I would also like to be able to play other sources from internet on the mentioned TV, like http://www.npo.nl/uitzending-gemist. This is a service to watch TV programmes you missed. I have no way to do that. Until now I'm limited to watching that on the computer screen. From your link I understand this also possible using Chromecast? After all it can stream anything from internet, even the whole PC desktop? NB I have no compatible mobile, only an old symbian telephone Noki E75. |
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