Obviously, most (legal) network streams likely have Chromecast support through official channels, like YouTube or Twitch, so there’s no real reason to use these streams, but if you do rely on them for your daily entertainment, you’ll be able to use them in conjunction with VLC and your Chromecast device.Īs we mentioned above, the Chromecast support in VLC-even in the official version 3.0 release-is still, basically, in a beta form, and really shouldn’t be used for entertaining friends at the moment. Network streams: We weren’t able to test video-based network streams over our client, but audio-based network streams worked perfectly.While most people use VLC for video playback, we were ecstatic to note how well the platform worked for audio. Skipping tracks, scrubbing through songs, and adding music to your queue all functioned as intended. We tested casting to a Chromecast Audio and to a Google Home unit and both worked without issue. Still, we hope to see this improve as time goes on, and it is nice that Cast support is, at the very least, native to the application. Chromecast support isn’t completely finished being built by VLC, so expecting the application to have a bit of difficulty mastering playback should be expected. Video playback was choppy and dropped at times, leading us to occasionally have to restart the stream. Using files that weren’t originally supported by Chromecast, however, caused much more of a mixed bag in our tests. We found that videos that were supported by Chromecast by default (for example, MP4 files) led to the best experience when streaming locally. Video: The content you’re most likely to stream through VLC to a Chromecast, video was a mixed bag overall.We tested all three possible file types you could stream through VLC to your Chromecast here were the results:
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