mkchromecast

Cast your Linux audio or video files to your Google cast or Sonos devices

Audio and Video

Not tested on a device yet. What that means

mkchromecast in Breadstick

Breadstick runs Debian's own mkchromecast package for ARM64, the build a Debian 13 computer with an ARM processor installs, so mkchromecast should look and behave as it does on a Linux PC. On Samsung DeX, Floating mode opens it as its own window beside your Android apps, and Desktop mode runs it on a full Linux desktop.

Sound plays through the device's own audio output, and video is decoded in software, so large or high frame rate files can struggle on slower devices. More about audio and video apps in Breadstick.

About mkchromecast

From Debian's package description

It is written in Python, and it streams via node.js or ffmpeg. mkchromecast is capable of using lossy and lossless audio formats provided that ffmpeg is installed. It also supports Multi-room group playback, and 24-bits/96kHz high audio resolution. Additionally, a system tray menu is also available.

By default, mkchromecast streams with node.js (or parec in Linux) together with mp3 audio coding format at a sample rate of 44100Hz and average bitrate of 192k. These defaults can be changed using the --sample-rate and -b flags. It is useful to modify these parameters when your wireless router is not very powerful, or in the case you don't want to degrade the sound quality. You can also cast videos using the --video flag.

mkchromecast can cast using either pulseaudio or ALSA. The respective dependencies can be pulled by mkchromecast-pulseaudio and mkchromecast-alsa dependency packages respectively. For more information, please read the README.Debian file shipped in this package.

From Debian's description of the mkchromecast package, under that package's license.

Keywords
cast, chromecast, google, pychromecast
Menu categories
Audio, Audio and video

Related apps

All Linux audio and video apps

Sources and licenses

  • Name and summary: the desktop entry in Debian's mkchromecast package, under that package's license.
  • Description: Debian's description of the mkchromecast package, under that package's license.
  • Icon: the project's own, from Debian's AppStream icon cache for the mkchromecast package.
  • Versions and sizes: Debian's archive for ARM64, as on packages.debian.org.
  • Popularity: Debian Popularity Contest counts.

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