[TheWiseOne]

Anyone know of something similar for Windows?

[thom]

Airflow works pretty flawlessly (not free software, however).

[haolez]

VLC since 3.0 is supposed to support Chromecast

[keredson]

yeah, but they don't support subtitles as far as i can tell. my frustration w/ VLC's casting is what drove me to write this.

[sharpercoder]

VLC does not support certain formats. I haven't dug into it, but I don't think it supports transcoding video to a chromecast endpoint either.

[rblatz]

Plex works on Linux/windows/OS X and does transcoding and subtitles, but I don’t know if it can directly cast from the PC or if you have to also run a client on your phone to start the the cast.

[ajanuary]

You can cast directly from your PC with it.

[skanga]

This is written in python. Anyone able to get this running under msys with gtk3, etc

[rajaravivarma_r]

I really like that somebody has written in in Python. There is one similar tool which was written in NodeJS, I couldn't get that to work.

One question - Is the back-end modular enough, that anybody can read the source and write the front-end in PyQt?

[keredson]

i haven't tried, but you're right in theory very possible. i'm really a fan of OS specific GUIs tho - i'd advise someone use the same underlying python casting API to write a native windows frontend.