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  Chromcasting From YouTube? "(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> - 2016-09-09 09:56 -0400
    Re: Chromcasting From YouTube? Dave Doe <hard@work.ok> - 2016-09-12 01:13 +1200
      Re: Chromcasting From YouTube? Dave Doe <hard@work.ok> - 2016-09-12 01:17 +1200
        Re: Chromcasting From YouTube? AL <noemail@invalid.com> - 2016-09-11 09:58 -0700
          Re: Chromcasting From YouTube? "(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> - 2016-09-11 14:04 -0400
            Re: Chromcasting From YouTube? David Oseas <doseas{nospam}@usa.net> - 2016-09-11 11:36 -0700
              Re: Chromcasting From YouTube? Dave Doe <hard@work.ok> - 2016-09-12 12:31 +1200
                Re: Chromcasting From YouTube? AL <noemail@invalid.com> - 2016-09-11 19:05 -0700
              Re: Chromcasting From YouTube? "(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> - 2016-09-12 10:12 -0400
                Re: Chromcasting From YouTube? AL <noemail@invalid.com> - 2016-09-12 09:09 -0700

#34053 — Chromcasting From YouTube?

I finally stumbled on one of these icons in another app:
http://tinyurl.com/hzybljk
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOe2sINMvXGjMsHGaWjVb6elt1ZTR3_RkJuIsC2M_dK-WJSeGKBEndcl1BzapA7jg/photo/AF1QipMZKKCzr1APNzeZA10r87--UXnJ_xNxIz8KT9kw?key=RmtZQjlNaWEtT0I0TGVtVzNiLUF2UGlNTnZDclFn

Clicked on it and, automagically, my TV started playing the video in
question.     Nice!

But that video was not on YouTube.

Poked around the YouTube app for awhile, brought YouTube up under the
Chrome browser.... but have not yet seen the icon.

Can anybody elucidate?
-- 
Pete Cresswell

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#34119

In article <0of5tbd0gp60de1jmtgfjl60330lcf5c5l@4ax.com>, x@y.Invalid, 
(PeteCresswell) says...
> 
> I finally stumbled on one of these icons in another app:
> http://tinyurl.com/hzybljk
> https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOe2sINMvXGjMsHGaWjVb6elt1ZTR3_RkJuIsC2M_dK-WJSeGKBEndcl1BzapA7jg/photo/AF1QipMZKKCzr1APNzeZA10r87--UXnJ_xNxIz8KT9kw?key=RmtZQjlNaWEtT0I0TGVtVzNiLUF2UGlNTnZDclFn
> 
> Clicked on it and, automagically, my TV started playing the video in
> question.     Nice!
> 
> But that video was not on YouTube.
> 
> Poked around the YouTube app for awhile, brought YouTube up under the
> Chrome browser.... but have not yet seen the icon.
> 
> Can anybody elucidate?

What do you get?  If you get just a "finding devices" dialog, do you 
have an Office 365 account onboard?, and in particular is it under 
control of Office (the phone can be wiped from O 365).  If so, you'll 
need to logon to O 365 as an admin and disable that for that phone, then 
you can delete the app that handles that on your Android phone - 
Microsoft Intune Company Portal (just called the Company Portal on your 
phone app list).

Works for quite a few folk - reported on Google a thread (can't find it 
now) @: 
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/chromecast

In short, Microsoft's Intune Company Portal causes problems with casting 
from the YouTube app!

Been a problem since about May this year - AFAIK, Microsoft have not 
fixed it.

-- 
Duncan.

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#34120

In article <MPG.32401f9ba69aaa6c989d2d@news.eternal-september.org>, 
hard@work.ok, Dave Doe says...
> 
> In article <0of5tbd0gp60de1jmtgfjl60330lcf5c5l@4ax.com>, x@y.Invalid, 
> (PeteCresswell) says...
> > 
> > I finally stumbled on one of these icons in another app:
> > http://tinyurl.com/hzybljk
> > https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOe2sINMvXGjMsHGaWjVb6elt1ZTR3_RkJuIsC2M_dK-WJSeGKBEndcl1BzapA7jg/photo/AF1QipMZKKCzr1APNzeZA10r87--UXnJ_xNxIz8KT9kw?key=RmtZQjlNaWEtT0I0TGVtVzNiLUF2UGlNTnZDclFn
> > 
> > Clicked on it and, automagically, my TV started playing the video in
> > question.     Nice!
> > 
> > But that video was not on YouTube.
> > 
> > Poked around the YouTube app for awhile, brought YouTube up under the
> > Chrome browser.... but have not yet seen the icon.
> > 
> > Can anybody elucidate?
> 
> What do you get?  If you get just a "finding devices" dialog, do you 
> have an Office 365 account onboard?, and in particular is it under 
> control of Office (the phone can be wiped from O 365).  If so, you'll 
> need to logon to O 365 as an admin and disable that for that phone, then 
> you can delete the app that handles that on your Android phone - 
> Microsoft Intune Company Portal (just called the Company Portal on your 
> phone app list).
> 
> Works for quite a few folk - reported on Google a thread (can't find it 
> now) @: 
> https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/chromecast
> 
> In short, Microsoft's Intune Company Portal causes problems with casting 
> from the YouTube app!
> 
> Been a problem since about May this year - AFAIK, Microsoft have not 
> fixed it.

Here's one thread, not sure if it's the right one...
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?
utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/chromecast/E-7oDGM-QRM/IfYZ-
H29BAAJ


-- 
Duncan.

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#34125

On 9/11/2016 6:17 AM, Dave Doe wrote:

>> Poked around the YouTube app for awhile, brought YouTube up under
>> the Chrome browser.... but have not yet seen the icon.
>>
>> Can anybody elucidate?

Earlier versions of the Chrome browser needed an extension to
use a Chromecast device. Under the current version (53.0.2785.101m on
mine) the extension is no longer needed. You might try updating
your browser.

>> What do you get?  If you get just a "finding devices" dialog,

It's looking for all Chromecast devices that you've set up. When it
finds them it will list them, and you can choose which device to cast to.


BTW the You Tube app on my Android phone casts just fine to all my TVs,
no browser needed.

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#34126

Per AL:
>
>Earlier versions of the Chrome browser needed an extension to
>use a Chromecast device. Under the current version (53.0.2785.101m on
>mine) the extension is no longer needed. You might try updating
>your browser.

>
>It's looking for all Chromecast devices that you've set up. When it
>finds them it will list them, and you can choose which device to cast to.
>
>
>BTW the You Tube app on my Android phone casts just fine to all my TVs,
>no browser needed.

Got it: There is an app called "Google Cast".


-- 
Pete Cresswell

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#34127

On 9/11/2016 11:04 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:

>
> Got it: There is an app called "Google Cast".
>

Be aware that it is much better to use an app that has casting ability 
built-in than it is to use the Google Cast app.  Those apps with the 
built-in ability send info to the ChromeCast device directly.  The 
GoogleCast app does its magic by taking screencaps of the Android device 
& mirroring them to the ChromeCast device.  This requires substantially 
more CPU and eats into the battery (as well as heating up the Android 
device).

I have found that, on occasion, my Android device, for whatever reason, 
doesn't see the ChromeCast device on my WiFi network, so the ChromeCast 
icon isn't displayed in the YouTube (or whatever) app.  Rebooting my 
Android device will usually resolve the issue.

-David

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#34137

In article <nr486u$m5m$1@dont-email.me>, doseas{nospam}@usa.net, David 
Oseas says...
> 
> On 9/11/2016 11:04 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
> 
> >
> > Got it: There is an app called "Google Cast".
> >
> 
> Be aware that it is much better to use an app that has casting ability 
> built-in than it is to use the Google Cast app.  Those apps with the 
> built-in ability send info to the ChromeCast device directly.  The 

??? The Google Cast app is needed to setup the phone on Chromecast.  
After that, it's just a screensave really :) - although I use it to stop 
(other apps) casting.

It also has quite a good "Get Apps" tab, to find all those other apps 
that cast.  Android phones should have Google's YouTube built in.  Two 
apps I like for movie watching from PC are Google's Videostream and 
Plex.


-- 
Duncan.

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#34138

On 9/11/2016 5:31 PM, Dave Doe wrote:

> Android phones should have Google's YouTube built in.

My Android phone came with the You Tube app "built in". In other words
it was part of Verizon's bloatware that could not be deleted (without
root). Fortunately for me I like the app.

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#34146

Per David Oseas:
>I have found that, on occasion, my Android device, for whatever reason, 
>doesn't see the ChromeCast device on my WiFi network, so the ChromeCast 
>icon isn't displayed in the YouTube (or whatever) app.  Rebooting my 
>Android device will usually resolve the issue.

I experienced that when double-checking before writing my "Got It..."
post.

Thought I was losing my mind at first because I was 99% sure I had seen
and used the icon in the YouTube app just a day before.

Seems like poor UI design to just quietly fail to show the icon.
Non-intuitive and all that.....  Better, IMHO, would be throwing a
dialog if/when the user clicks the icon and no ChromCast devices are
found.
-- 
Pete Cresswell

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#34147

On 9/12/2016 7:12 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:

> Thought I was losing my mind at first because I was 99% sure I had seen
> and used the icon in the YouTube app just a day before.
>
> Seems like poor UI design to just quietly fail to show the icon.

On my Android phone all the apps show no icon when my Chromecast devices 
are powered down (TVs turned off).

On my PC's Chrome browser the icon is always there. Only when I select 
it does it search and then tell me there's "device missing".

On my Samsung tablet The icon is always there. When I select it, it 
lists my (dead) devices. Only when I select a device from the list does 
it tell me that it can't be found.

Personally I prefer the no icon = no device. Much easier IMO.

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