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Hello, I’m looking for a way in which I can cast specific media files such as images and videos to a Windows PC.

The big problem is that everything I find only mentions screen mirroring. However, due to privacy reasons I don’t want to mirror my screen, instead I want to send specific videos and photos (local and maybe also external such as youtube links) to the screen.

I thought I would find a software capable of doing this but haven’t been able to find anything solid. Ideally it would work with Android’s native casting options, but if that’s not possible then it’s also okay to install a client / agent /app on the phone as long as it supports casting specific media files and not mirroring the screen.

Thank you a lot <3

  • Rabbithole@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If you’re on android, look up an app called BubbleUPnP, it will allow you to stream media via standard UPnP protocols to other devices from the phone. I used it with one of my old VR headsets so that I could keep a video library on my phone’s 128GB MicroSD card and wirelessly stream movies into a virtual cinema inside the headset (which had almost no free storage, hence this solution).

    You should be able to get the same thing to work with a PC.