How to play smooth streaming video in Chromecast?

Question

According the Chromecast Developers page, Chromecast supports the SmoothStreaming container, which I believe uses video chunks with the .ismv extension. I am having problems ge

Answer 1

Chromecast supports MPEG-DASH and Smooth Streaming. See more detail here:

https://developers.google.com/cast/supported_media_types

We'll provide some code snippet of smooth streaming soon. Stay tuned.

Answer 2

The default Receiver provided does not support SmoothStreaming (nor MPEG-DASH).

You'll need to code your own receiver to do so.

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/17978070/2665789 for a little more help.

Hopefully Google posts working samples of Live streaming soon!

Answer 3

You can throw SmoothStreaming to some sample receivers provided by Google. The cast-custom-receiver and the Cast-Media-Player-Library-Sample supports SS with PlayReady encryption out of the box.

Well, you need to do some tricks like modify the extension from "ism/" to "ism/Manifest" and it just work. You'll need to do the same in the [cast-sender-tool-chrome] adding the file extension to the list of three inside the main html file.