Description of the CastBuddy Chrome Extension
| Name |
CastBuddy |
| Store URL |
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/castbuddy/ghagedffjalchgcgdgfindabkpnmalel |
| Homepage |
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| Tagline |
This extension finds videos on the web sites you are browsing and allows you to play them on your Chromecast device. |
| Rating |
3.63 |
| Rating Count |
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| Installs |
70000 |
| Overview |
Stream web videos directly on your Chromecast from websites which have not added Chromecast support yet. This extension finds videos on the web sites you are browsing and allows you to play them on your Chromecast device. When it finds Chromecast comptible videos ( .webm, .mp4, .mkv etc), count of videos is shown over extension’s menubar icon, which you can click to Select a video and extension will send it to your Chromecast device. Once a casting session is established, you can control video playback from Extension’s popup page. Instructions for using CastBuddy: https://castbuddy-extension.bitbucket.io/help/index.html Features: * Find compatible videos and allows you to stream directly on your Chromecast * Control playback ( Play/Pause/Seek) from extension’s menu * No need to keep your computer running once streaming starts on Chromecast * Allows you to manually enter a URL for Video to play on your Chromecast * Support for adding videos to Queue v1.0.8 – Experimenting with external website based player v1.0.6 Launch player in a new window to workaround issue with latest chrome update which doesn’t allow starting chromecast sessions from popup. v1.0.5 – Revert changes made in 1.0.4 as the didn’t work properly and also broke functionality that was working with older chrome version v1.0.4 – Attempt to fix issue with latest chrome update |
| Version |
1.1.0 |
| Size |
253KiB |
| Email |
castbuddy.net@gmail.com |
| Developer Name |
b4t |
| Updated Date |
2021-12-31 |
CastBuddy looks like a great Chrome extension that has hundreds of thousands of installs already. The latest version is only 253KiB.
