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Castor

Point it at any web page and it finds the video, extracts the stream, transcodes it and casts in real time to your TV. It even burns subtitles.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Linux
  • Homebrew
  • Docker  Linux only
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Features

Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  No Tracking
  2.  Chromecast Support
  3.  Ad-free
  4.  No registration required
  5.  Stream video to Smart TV
  6.  Stream video to Apple TV
  7.  Support for subtitles
  8.  Stream video to Android TV
  9. IMDb icon  IMDb integration
  10.  Video Casting
  11.  Support for DLNA

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Castor information

  • Developed by

    FR flagKilian Houpeurt
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Alternatives

    16 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

Video & Movies

GitHub repository

  •  1,514 Stars
  •  42 Forks
  •  4 Open Issues
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What is Castor?

Smart TVs won't cast arbitrary web video, and screen mirroring is laggy and drops resolution. Castor casts the real stream instead, at full quality, from your terminal.

Point Castor at a web page you are watching, or at a direct stream URL, and it finds the video, extracts the stream, transcodes it for your TV, and casts in real time. It can also resolve an IMDB/TMDB id against sources you configure yourself, and burn in auto-generated subtitles.

To extract, it launches headless Chrome and watches network traffic over the Chrome DevTools Protocol, then runs a short action pipeline to start playback: click the page, navigate into the largest iframe, and click again as a fallback. This works on pages that allow automated playback, and won't work everywhere.

A general-purpose casting tool: it casts only what you point it at.

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