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If you’re running Android KitKat 4.4.2 or higher, you can mirror your Android screen to Google Chromecast easily. In Android Lollipop, there’s even a Cast button in the notification drawer.

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Right now, the list of supported devices is not huge but if you have a high-end Android phone from last year then it should work. This feature is in beta. I got a warning that performance on my device might not be up to mark as my Moto G is not officially supported but I did not encounter any problem.

To get started, open your Chromecast app, tap the Menu button and select Cast Screen. Turn on screen casting, select the Chromecast icon and that’s it. You’re mirroring your display.

Now, everything you do on your device will show up on the big screen of your TV. This works surprisingly well. I was able to watch YouTube videos like this with minimal lag and as this is “casting”, audio from your device makes it to the TV as well.

More on Android Mirroring: Learn more about the two different ways to mirror your Android screen to a PC. You can also use chromecast apps from Google Play Store such as AirDroid to reply to WhatsApp messages from the PC.

That is not to say that there’s no lag. The stutters are mostly evident while scrolling through a heavy web page.

Other than videos, this feature can be useful if you want to show local photos or videos that are in your mobile device on the big screen or you want to put up a presentation from Google Slides or just a web page from the chrome web browser.

No Support for iOS: Right now, screen mirroring is not supported by iOS devices. The app store on iOS can’t access the whole OS like they can on Android, so hopes for Apple developers devising support for mirroring are glum.

Mirror a Chrome Tab on Desktop

Using the Google Cast extension for Google Chrome, you can mirror the current tab to Chromecast quite easily.

This is particularly useful if you’re playing video files on a website that don't have the Chromecast support or you want to listen to music from Spotify’s web player on the surround sound system you’ve got hooked to your smart TV.

Click on the Google Cast extension and you’ll see an option called Cast this tab (it’s in beta right now). Below it, you’ll see your Chromecast’s name. Click on it to start mirroring.

You can refine the quality of the casting. Right now, casting is only supported for up to 720p resolution (no Full HD for you). But you can choose between three modes. Other than the default, there’s an enhanced mode for music and one with higher bitrate (for smoother animations).

Mirror Mac/PC Screen Using Chrome Extension

To mirror your entire Apple PC or Mac screen, click the dropdown button next to Cast this tab to.. and select Cast entire screen. Now go back and select your Chromecast. Chrome will ask you to confirm and then your whole screen will be mirrored.

I should note that while casting tabs is not bad – I successfully streamed TV shows from Netflix and Amazon Instant Video’s web player to Chromecast this way – the screen mirroring leaves a lot to be desired.

Conclusion

Mirroring media isn’t as bad as scrolling, where the smallest of the stutters are magnified on the large screen.

If you’re planning on using Chromecast to display your presentation on the big screen at the next meeting, consider this your warning. It won’t go well.

If you’re using something like Google Slides on the web or some other web based presentation tool, the lag will be minuscule but manageable.

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EDIT: A moderator locked that thread, saying it was a duplicate of another thread, which you can find here: https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/ ... -7JBxOAQAJ
That thread is rather a mess, because they are locking and redirecting all related things to there....
Note: Anyone can post here on my forum without registering -- you just have to pass a security question to prove you're not a bot. You can find an answer for that question by looking at the images on the front page of the site: http://www.fvfonline.com
UPDATE 2018: It seems Google has recently been updating their back-end scripts, which has further crippled Cast functionality -- at least this seems to be the case for me in Win XP. As of December, Youtube stopped detecting my Cast functionality, so the videos there no longer gave the option to Cast. But throughout December, other video sites such as Crunchyroll or Dailymotion were still functioning just fine, with the Cast icon appearing in their videos. But then as of January 2018, all web sites and even Chrome extensions can no longer detect or connect to Chromecast through my browser, as they previously could....
The Google Cast extension itself can still work as usual to TabCast, but Casting web videos has become difficult.
There is only one Chrome extension I have that stills function correctly to cast web videos: VideoCast.
It will detect some videos on a page, then you can click its toolbar icon and press the Cast button, which will open a new page that will allow you to send the video to your Chromecast. It may not work correctly for all videos, but it will work for many... at least for now, unless Google makes more updates that further cripple the Chromecast ability.
Did your Chromecast icon vanish from your Chrome toolbar?
Here's how to get your Google Cast extension back in older Operating Systems.
This applies to Chrome version 49 running on older operating systems like Vista, XP, and versions of OSX lower than 10.9 on older MacBooks.
Google has decided to make it impossible to use a Chromecast with older operating systems. It's not enough for them to just say 'this may not work, and we don't support it' -- it seems now, as of April 20th 2017, the Google Cast extension for Chrome will automatically update itself to a new version and then promptly remove itself completely from Chrome.
This issue is not, as some people are claiming, an update to the Chromecast protocol that has caused the Cast extension to stop working -- the old Cast extension STILL WORKS, and has been working for older OS's for the past year, despite it not having been updated since March 2016. It's just that Google now decided to revoke the extension by 'updating' to a new version that is nothing but a single line of code: 'chrome.management.uninstallSelf();' That's right, the Google Cast Extension is now nothing but a command to uninstall itself, and because extensions will automatically update, this happens whether you want it to or not.
Of course, there may be updates in the future to the Chromecast firmware or protocol that will indeed make it totally incompatible with our older OS's.... But for now, that is not the case.
The response you will get when asking about this issue is, 'The Google Cast Extension is no longer needed; Cast functionality is already built-in to newer versions of Chrome.'
Well, great, except older Operating Systems cannot use newer versions of Chrome.... So we need the Google Cast Extension back, which was working just fine previously.
Then they will tell you, 'Sorry, Chromecast is not supported under those older operating systems; see this page: https://support.google.com/chromecast/a ... 9990?hl=en '
The thing is, that page previously said that our older operating systems were supported for casting (specifically saying that 'Vista or later' was the minimum requirement for Windows), but as of April 24 2017, Google CHANGED the minimum requirements on that page to say 'Windows 7 or later.' This has understandably upset people, because at the time of purchase they fully met the Chromecast's stated requirements.
And up until now, those of us who are still using those older operating systems have been able to use our Chromecast devices just fine with our outdated versions of Chrome, because previously it was possible to visit the Chromecast Setup page ( https://www.google.com/chromecast/setup/ ) and download the Google Cast extension by clicking where it says 'Or, you can set up your chromecast using this computer' (though even this method has been removed now). Note: although you could get the Cast Extension from there, the actual Setup process would not work on an older OS -- I had to use my Android tablet for that step.
That was the only way to actually install the Google Cast extension for older versions of Chrome, because the extension in the Chrome Web Store page ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... cfkmllpafd ) says 'This extension has been discontinued,' and the option to 'Add to Chrome' is grayed out.
Well, there was also the Google Cast Beta Extension ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... leaejidimm ) which still allows a direct installation from the Web Store (of course, you need that direct link, because the extension won't show up in a search of the Chrome Web Store, nor will the standard extension above), but I don't really know what the difference was with the Beta version, and it appears to currently be the same version number as the standard extension anyway (with the same automatic removal behavior), so it's probably just the same extension but released a day earlier.
Another 'fix' you might hear is to go to chrome://flags/#media-router

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and Enable it.
Don't do that. It does not seem to work for older versions of Chrome. It will indeed add the 'Cast' function to the Chrome menu (and the right-click menu for pages) along with an integrated popup for casting, but it will prevent your Chromecast from being detected. You need to make sure that settings is Disabled (which is, I think, the same as 'Default') so that the Cast extension can function instead.
If you're using a more recent version of Chrome, you can try toggling the media-router setting, and it might actually help you (though in newer versions it's called chrome://flags/#load-media-router-component-extension ), but be sure to Disable it if you are going to use this guide to install Google Cast, otherwise the extension will be prevented from working.
In any case, due to the stupid automatic updating and instant removal of the Cast Extension, Google leaves us high and dry in regard to using our Chromecasts from older operating systems.
BUT there is a workaround.
You can go to crx4chrome and download the previous version here: https://www.crx4chrome.com/crx/49386/
That should be the crx file for Google Cast version 15.1120.0.4 which was from March 23, 2016, 1.09 MB in size.
Then in your Chrome browser, go to chrome://extensions (either type or paste that directly into the Chrome address bar) and then simply drag and drop that crx file onto that page to install it.
Now it should be working just fine again, except it will want to auto-update itself after a while (maybe within a few hours), which will result in the new version being installed and promptly removing itself from Chrome.... Of course, you can easily re-add the former version again, as above, but it would be nice to have an easy way to prevent it from auto-updating in the first place.
The following page lists several methods to prevent an extensions from automatically updating: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2765 ... autoupdate
But none of those work for me. Perhaps they are for later versions of Chrome; I use Chrome 49 on XP.
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Mac OSX Users: I have found a way that seems to work for OSX. First, in your Chrome browser (again, right in the address bar) go to chrome://version and find 'Profile Path' which will probably be like:
/Users/<USERNAME>/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default
Highlight your profile path and copy it (Command+C, or use the 'Edit' menu), then go to Finder (just click your desktop or something) and in the 'Go' menu at the top of your screen, select 'Go to Folder' (or just press Command+Shift+G) then paste the profile path into the box (Command+V or use the 'Edit' menu) and click 'Go.'
Now, in the window that opens, look for and open the 'Extensions' folder, then look for the folder named 'boadgeojelhgndaghljhdicfkmllpafd' (if you don't see it, Chrome may have already auto-updated the Cast extension and removed it -- if so, just install it again, as above).
Select that folder, then click the 'File' menu and select 'Get Info' (or just press Command+i).
Then click the checkbox that says 'Locked.'
That's it, you're done! You can pretty much skip the rest of this guide.
That should prevent Chrome from being able to change anything in that extension folder.
You can always test if the extension will update by going back to chrome://extensions and selecting 'Developer Mode' at the top of the page, then clicking 'Update extensions now.' If the above works correctly, then the Cast extension will not suddenly vanish....
NOTE: By the way, if for any reason you ever need to uninstall or reinstall the Google Cast Extension, remember that you MUST Unlock that folder! Just repeat the steps above only remove the check mark from the 'Locked' option.
Back to Windows users....
Installing it as an 'unpacked extension' will prevent any updating from the Web Store, though this method requires some fiddling. The crx file can be unpacked using 7-Zip, but trying to install it after that never seems to work for me, and results in errors that make it unusable.
So first, install the crx as above, by drag-and-drop onto the Extensions Management page in Chrome. Then make sure you have activated 'Developer Mode' using the checkbox at the top of that page. Take note of the Extension ID for Google Cast; it will be like: 'boadgeojelhgndaghljhdicfkmllpafd'
Then (before it uninstalls itself... and if it does, just reinstall it) find the actual extension folder, which will be located at:
C:Documents and Settings<USERNAME>Local SettingsApplication DataGoogleChromeUser DataDefaultExtensions<EXTENSION-ID>
If that location isn't correct, you can always check in chrome://version for 'Profile Path.' Browse to that location.
PROTIP! You can get to that folder quickly by Copying the address found in 'Profile Path,' then click Start -> Run (or just press Win+R), and Paste the address in there, then hit Enter or 'OK.'
Make sure you find the Extensions<EXTENSION-ID folder that matches the Extension ID for Google Cast which you just installed ('boadgeojelhgndaghljhdicfkmllpafd').
Once found, look in that Extension ID folder and you will find a version number folder: '15.1120.0.4_0' (it's possible there may be more than one version number folder in here if the extension has been removed and reinstalled, but that shouldn't matter). That folder will contain the goodies you need. You can copy the version number folder to some other (easily-accessible) location on your drive (and even rename it if you want), or you can just leave it in its current location and use it from there.
So, look inside that version number folder (or whatever you renamed it to, if you copied it somewhere else) and DELETE the folder called '_metadata'
Now go back to the Chrome Extensions page and click 'Load Unpacked Extension' near the top, and browse back to your version number folder and click 'OK' (this part will be much easier if you renamed and moved the folder somewhere easier to access).
You will see one error about a manifest key, but I think you can safely ignore that. The Google Cast toolbar button should work now, and the extension should never automatically update itself from the Web Store again.
(You can always test if the extension will update by going back to chrome://extensions and selecting 'Developer Mode' at the top of the page, then clicking 'Update extensions now.' If the above works correctly, then the Cast extension will not suddenly vanish....)
Unfortunately, now you may get a different little annoyance: a warning that pops up every time you start Chrome, telling you that it's dangerous to run developer mode extensions.... You can just press 'Cancel' to dismiss that warning and go about your day, but it will keep warning you every time you start Chrome....
It would be nice to be able to disable that warning, huh? Well, that is not an easy thing to do in Chrome 49.
It CAN be done, but this will require some minor hacking of chrome.dll
Again, this is for Chrome version 49 on XP or Vista. I have no idea what OSX would require for this part, or if it is even applicable -- my OSX workaround should not actually face this problem.
chrome.dll is found found in:
C:Documents and Settings<USERNAME>Local SettingsApplication DataGoogleChromeApplication<VERSION-NUMBER>
Or again look on chrome://version and find 'Executable Path' and that will be the location (minus the 'chrome.exe' part) to find the <VERSION-NUMBER> folder, which should be '49.0.2623.112'
PROTIP! You can get to this folder quickly by right-clicking on your Chrome shortcut, going to Properties, then clicking 'Find Target' or 'Open File Location.'
OPTION 1
Are you comfortable using a Hex Editor? Then simply hex edit chrome.dll and replace these offsets:
0033C22A: replace 03 with 09
Google01B91968: replace 45 with 00
(Always back up your files before editing! -- And, of course, you need to close Chrome before doing this.)
OPTION 2
If you can't use a Hex Editor, there is a powershell script on this page that will make the edit for you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3028 ... nsions-pop
but I had to install powershell 2 for XP to get that to work. If you want to try that, you can locate the download you need for your OS in the middle of this lengthy page: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hel ... d-bits-4.0
OPTION 3
Ok, to make it easy for people who are really not good with computers, I have made a little EXE to do this part for you. All you need to do is download ChromeDevWarningPatch.EXE, place it in the same folder as chrome.dll (as above), run it, and it will make the patch for you automatically.
I should point out that I don't personally condone downloading and running strange EXE's from unknown sources, but if you are so bad with computers that you can't use a hex editor, you probably already have hundreds of viruses on your old computer anyway And this is just a simple little program I created using a ROM patching utility called Beopat.
So, after all that, you should happily be able to use your Chromecast again, even though Google doesn't want you to be able to do that anymore without buying a new computer.

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Two final notes for those who may still be using XP.
First, I usually use Slimjet browser ( http://www.slimjet.com/ ), which is based on Chromium (so it is very similar and can use the same Chrome extensions), and is a bit more updated and perhaps a bit more secure than the abandoned Chrome 49. This works on Vista as well.
But note that Slimjet doesn't support all media formats, so you may not be able to view or cast everything that Chrome 49 can.
Second, you can continue to receive Windows Updates for XP through 2019 if you use this registery hack to trick XP into thinking it's embedded in an ATM, heh: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2310301 ... lling.html
Note that this won't fully protect you, but it may provide slightly better security than standard unpatched XP at this point. Read up on it and use at your own risk.
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