Of course, you'll also need the Chromium or Google Chrome web browsers with the Google Cast add-on installed. To test the new Chromecast feature on your Ubuntu or Debian GNU/Linux operating system, you'll have to install the webfs packages, which is a small web server that SMPlayer will use to serve files to your Chromecast, using the command listed above, or simply by using a graphical package manager, such as Synaptic or Ubuntu Software. Here's how to play videos on Chromecast via SMplayer It also supports the MP4, AAC, MP3, WAV, and WebM media container formats, and JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, WEBP image formats. However, this being an experimental implementation, it supports a limited number of video and audio codecs, including H.264 High Profile Level 4.1 and VP8, MP3, FLAC, Vorbis, HE-AAC, LC-AAC, and WAV (LPCM). Now you can send videos from SMPlayer to your Chromecast device, including local files from your computer and online streams such as TV channels or videos from sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Vevo and many more,' reads the release announcement. 'SMPlayer 17.1 features experimental support for Chromecast. The feature supports both online and local sources, including those from popular video hosting services like YouTube and Vimeo.

Sporting initial Chromecast support, SMPlayer 17.1 will let you send video files from your personal computer to your Chromecast device to watch them on your big-screen TV, or your friends' for that matter. It's been two and a half months since you last updated your SMPlayer open-source video player, and a new stable release is now available, versioned 17.1, with some exciting features.

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