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1. #AIRSTREAMER MAC APP CAST DESKTOP HOW TO#
2. #AIRSTREAMER MAC APP CAST DESKTOP INSTALL#
3. #AIRSTREAMER MAC APP CAST DESKTOP DRIVERS#

Install Cast to TV and Cast to TV Desktop Stream Add-on. For better audio streaming on Debian / Ubuntu you can use the FFmpeg GStreamer plugin (which in recent Debian / Ubuntu versions is using FFmpeg, despite libav being in the package name), which provides support for avenc_aac AAC audio encoding. The GStreamer plugins don't have the fdkaac and faac AAC audio encoders enabled by default, with only voaacenc being available, which is rather old. On Debian / Ubuntu, there's one more optional dependency. So if your desktop crashes or you're not able to cast your desktop to a Chromecast while using hardware acceleration, disable it ( Cast to TV preferences -> Add-ons > Desktop -> Hardware acceleration: None). I did not try using hardware acceleration in my test of streaming my GNOME Shell 3.36 desktop to a Chromecast, because my Nvidia graphics doesn't support NVENC. It's very important to take into consideration that the GStreamer implementation of hardware acceleration (both VAAPI and NVENC) is " kind of experimental", notes the Cast to TV Desktop Add-on wiki, and using it might crash GNOME Shell.

#AIRSTREAMER MAC APP CAST DESKTOP DRIVERS#

While to use hardware accelerated recording with Nvidia drivers (NVENC) you don't need to install any extra package because it's already available in the GStreamer1-plugins-bad package (it depends if your Linux distributions enables this though, it might not be available), for VAAPI (Intel/AMD) you need to install the GSttreamer1-vaapi package: There are some optional dependencies too. Debian / Ubuntu / Pop!_OS: sudo apt install ffmpeg npm nodejs gstreamer1.0-plugins.PulseAudio (and pacmd) are also required, but these should already be installed in most cases. Cast to TV - Desktop Stream Add-on has some dependencies too: the GStreamer base, good, bad and ugly plugins. Install the required Cast to TV and Cast to TV - Desktop Add-on dependencies.Ĭast to TV extension requires npm and Node.js for some modules, and FFmpeg for transcoding. Gnomecast, a GUI application to stream local audio and video files to a Chromecastġ.More ways of streaming to a Chromecast from Linux: Using these steps, the whole Cast to TV functionality will be enabled, so you won't have just the ability to cast your desktop, but also cast video, music and pictures from your GNOME Shell desktop. This is what you need to do in detail, on Debian / Ubuntu, Fedora or Arch Linux / Manjaro. To use Cast to TV to stream your GNOME Shell desktop (version 3.34 or 3.36 only!) to a Chromecast, you'll need to install Cast to TV version 14 (or newer) and Cast to TV Desktop Add-on, install some GStreamer plugins, and tweak some PulseAudio settings. Setting up Cast to TV for casting your desktop to a Chromecast, in Debian / Ubuntu / Pop!_OS, Fedora or Arch Linux / Manjaro You might also like: Chromecast Extension For Firefox fx_cast 0.0.5 Adds Support For YouTube, Subtitles For Local Media.

It can also cast local pictures, video and audio files with optional transcoding, GPU-accelerated video encoding for low CPU usage, subtitles, and more. So use whichever solution suits your needs best.Ĭast to TV can do a lot more than cast your desktop to a Chromecast. Google Chrome has a couple of advantages over Cast to TV too: it has a lower stream delay (Cast to TV currently has a delay of about 3 seconds), and it works with desktop environments other than GNOME Shell.

and you also get the option of showing or hiding your mouse cursor.it has hardware acceleration (VAAPI for Intel/AMD and NVENC for Nvidia graphics).it has customizable video bitrate and fps.it supports Wayland, this probably being the only way to cast your desktop to a Chromecast device from Wayland.it streams your desktop with working audio, which doesn't work on Linux with Google Chrome.Cast to TV has some advantages over Google Chrome for Chromecast desktop streaming though: Officially, you can stream your Linux desktop to a Chromecast by using Google Chrome. The step-by-step instructions are for Debian / Ubuntu / Pop!_OS, Fedora and Arch Linux / Manjaro (the steps should be the same on any GNOME Shell based Linux distribution, but the packages might have different names).

#AIRSTREAMER MAC APP CAST DESKTOP HOW TO#

This article explains how to use Cast to TV (and its helper add-on) to cast your GNOME Shell desktop to a Chromecast device, with sound, which works with both X11 and Wayland.