The Playcast UI is based around lists of media, as you might expect, with a hamburger menu letting you navigate between all the various sources, both local, connected and in the Cloud. But it does all work, and now pretty reliably with the latest version of Playcast.Īlthough shown here with Windows controls in most screens, these can be swiped away as usual with a UWP, giving more screen real estate when needed. I should emphasise that, like any system (on any platform) where media is streamed from one device to another, there's more overhead involved than when simply asking the likes of a Chromecast to play from a specific URL (part of the genius of this accessory, since there's no load on the phone/tablet at all). With Playcast, I can now use my Windows 10 Mobile phone to also pop-up my recent photos or videos, or stream media from various other sources. For my testing, I was using a Google Chromecast 2, an invaluable little gadget that we use for chilling out with YouTube, Netflix and Now TV in the evenings.
#TUBECAST CHROMECAST FULL#
The full compatibility list, from the Store description, is Chromecast, Chromecast Audio, Apple TV (AirPlay), DLNA Smart TV, Miracast, Internet Box, XBOX One, XBOX 360 or, of course, any streaming-compatible SmartTV that has one of those standards built-in. Playcast certainly isn't finished yet, but it's certainly reviewable now. With only minor caveats, of which more below.
#TUBECAST CHROMECAST UPDATE#
This is now the case, after an update a few days ago - I've been browsing around my Lumia's captured photos and videos, playing back locally saved music videos, media on Dropbox and Google Drive, and so on. Both applications are ambitious, but Playcast has had more than its fair share of quirks and glitches, leading me to delay review until it was truly usable.
But Playcast is unashamedly Windows 10 only and is designed to use local content on the phone, streaming it over Wifi to any compatible screen. We already had Tubecast from the same developer, which uses the Chromecast's own YouTube capabilities to control YouTube playback from a Windows Phone - and pretty reliably now. In fact, this review has been in the offing now for six months, since Playcast first appeared. Playcast is a UWP application for Windows 10 Mobile that attempts to bring sense into the world of casting whether it's to a Miracast-capable TV or to a Google Chromecast accessory, presenting your own media to the destination player in a sensible and hopefully glitch-free fashion.
We've had screen sharing and DLNA and so forth for a while, on all platforms and all devices, though sprinkled with rather a lot of compatibility issues. The concept of 'casting' content from phone to TV or other media player isn't new, of course.
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