I’m sure there are other apps that have the same functionality, but this allowed me to play video files on Chromecast from my phone. After downloading the accompanying plugin for the app, you offered the following menu when trying to play a video from ES File Explorer:Ĭhoose ES Chromecast Player and you’ll be able to cast your phone videos to the television. At that point, if the video isn’t compatible, ES File Explorer will prompt you to download the ES File Explorer Cast plugin. The first time I opened up ES File Explorer Manager, I located my downloaded video in the app and tried to cast my video. In my particular situation, I downloaded and installed ES File Explorer. Whenever you can’t cast a video from your Android phone to your television - there’s an app for that, as they say. Luckily, one came up pretty quickly in my search. Mirror your iPhone or iPad to Chromecast Download the AirBeamTV mirror app and cast iPhone & iPad videos, movies and apps without AirPlay or Apple TV. Chromecast built-in is a technology that lets you cast your favorite entertainment and apps from your phone, tablet or laptop right to your TV or speakers. 0.6.5: Support movies and subtitles from other protocols. Release notes: 0.7.0: Bugfixes 0.6.6: Small improvements. SRT file with the same name as the movie and in the same directory. Just cast the Chrome tab and voilà SUBTITLES support You just need to have an. All I want to do is to play the video on my phone and mirror it onto my TV so I went searching for a solution. This is the solution to play local files in your Chromecast (with subtitles). Not sure when and why some videos don’t work with Chromecast, or whether specific videos formats are incompatible, I don’t care about that.

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