Get your media on the TV with LocalCast!
The only casting app with these features:
- Cast PDFs
- Use your phone as wireless headphones !
- Rotate pictures and movies
- Zoom in and out pictures and movies
- Pan pictures
- Change the subtitle fon size
- Cast movies, pictures, videos and PDFs
- Cast from Google Drive, Google+, Dropbox, NAS (DLNA / UPNP or SMB) or your device
☆ Cast pictures, videos or music from:
- your device
- NAS
- internet browser
- Google Drive
- Google Plus
- Dropbox
★ Add subtitles (select the subtitle file in the folder view after you started a video)*
☆ Rotate pictures and videos
★ Choose files on your device either from the library or use the folder view
☆ Connect to your NAS via smb or DLNA/UPnP
★ Zoom in & out pictures and videos
☆ Open a movie stream in your browser then hit the share button and choose LocalCast or
★ Copy a link to a movie and choose "Paste link" in the app
☆ Panning for pictures
(* internal subtitles which are inside the video container don't work YET)
(arabic subtitles: Please change the encoding in the settings to UTF-8)
Usage is pretty easy:
1. Connect to a Chromecast
2. Choose what to stream:
Please check out the supported formats here:
https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media
If your format is not supported, use handbrake to convert the file:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/handbrake/
Free and ads supported, the ads can be removed via an in app purchase for a price from 1 to 5 €. Choose what you'd like to pay.
I am just one independent developer working on my apps whenever I can, without a big budget for testing on various devices. If you find a bug please contact me via Google+ or email and I'll try to fix it ASAP. Thanks for your support and happy casting!
Facebook fanpage:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/LocalCast/250528721786652
News:
https://plus.google.com/109720416927515295704/posts
XDA: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2649075
Reviews:
XDA News:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/stream-multimedia-files-from-andro...
inQuest Tech:
http://www.inquesttech.com/4/post/2014/02/stream-local-media-from-your-d...
Caschys Blog
http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/localcast-streamt-lokale-videos-auf-chromecast/
Permissions:
Storage: to search media
Allow WiFi Multicast: for the server
Network communication: Chromecast/Internet/etc.
Your accounts: Google Drive/Google+
Very bad app. Don't bother.
Good app, great value.
Good app, great value.