VLC 3.0 'Vetinari' is a new major update of VLC; VLC 3.0 activates hardware decoding by default, to get 4K and 8K playback! It supports 10bits and HDR; VLC supports 360. Download the.exe file from the pages linked here and run it to install that version of VLC. If youve connected it to the USB port on your TV for power, this means youll need to turn your TV on. To find your Chromecast, youll need to click Video Render Scan.
Having trouble connecting your VLC to your Chromecast device so you can watch a video on your TV?
Connecting your device be it an iPhone, Android phone, laptop, or tablet to your TV used to be such a hassle. For your laptop, you’d have to connect an HDMI adapter to the HDMI ports in the backside of your TV as well as to the side of your laptop. For phones and tablets, this used to be an even bigger problem.
When Google released the Google Chromecast, it changed how efficiently you could switch between your computer or mobile screen to your living room TV. The technology allowed you to wireless stream your data into the Chromecast device which is already connected to the HDMI port of your TV.
This was an amazing new gadget at the time, but it did have some problems with a couple of media players like VLC, one of the most commonly used media players around. We at Saint scoured the internet for solutions and explanations as to why you’re experiencing this issue and gathered a bunch of fixes to help you resolve it.
Let’s get started!
A little troubleshooting can go a long way. Go ahead and check if your device is connected to the same Wi-Fi network that the Google Chromecast is also connected to.
If both your devices aren’t in the same network, then the Chromecast cannot access your device, hindering any kind of streaming capability.
This is a very straightforward method. Chances are if this hasn’t been set already, then this will probably have the highest chance of fixing your issue.
Although Chromecast may have already been selected by apps like Netflix or Youtube, VLC has a manual list of devices that you can click on to specifically render onto.
The steps below will work for macOS and Windows, with a possible variation in the interface. Casting onto Chromecast will manually instruct VLC to stream to that device, which in this case is your TV.
Here’s how you can let VLC stream to Chromecast from your computer:
Try to play the video and see if it opens on your TV. If the video is still unavailable, go ahead and proceed to the next methods.
Just like the method above, the VLC steps to letting your mobile device stream onto your Google Chromecast should relatively be the same, but with varying interface designs.
In this method, we will guide you through the process of manually connecting your mobile phone’s VLC to your Chromecast device.
Here’s how you can let VLC stream to Chromecast From Your Mobile Device:
If you’ve already completed the methods above but are still having trouble with connecting and streaming your video to your Chromecast device, chances are there might be a problem with your Wi-Fi connection.
Using a VPN service will mask your IP address by connecting it to a different server, thereby protecting your home IP address. But as a safety precaution, Chromecast will protect your device and TV from infiltrators by filtering out suspicious IP addresses like VPN servers.
Disabling your VPN will let Chromecast allow your device to play your media and connect to its software. If you’re using an iOS device, here’s a set of instructions you can look at to disable any default VPNs on your Apple products.
Furthermore, VPNs are usually installed as a third-party software which unfortunately means we cannot provide a general set of instructions to disable the VPN on your device. It may help to google the VPN software that is being used and find out how to disable it.
Another practical alternative to this head-scratching problem is by using Google Chrome as a middle-man between VLC and your Chromecast Device — Google Chrome will stream from your VLC player while Chromecast streams directly from Google Chrome.
This way, VLC is still the one being streamed to your TV, without the complications by using Google Chrome.
Here’s how you can use Google Chrome as a middle-man:
Although streaming directly from your VLC player will have better quality, if you’re at the end of your ropes, then this method should be an excellent alternative. The reason why the quality might not be the best is because your TV is streaming what Google Chrome is streaming, which is VLC. Regardless, it does get the job done.
That brings us to the end of this article. We hope that this guide helped provide solutions that helped fix your ‘How to stream from VLC to your Chromecast’ problem. If you have other questions related to this article or if you came across another alternative solution, feel free to share it below.
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