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WORKED!!! I have been able to cast to Chromecast from vlc for months (after having tried for months before, without success, as soon as the first v.3 came, but suddenly it worked), but after some major changes in my network setup, I wanted to cast from vlc again. Casting from Chrome worked fine. But...

@ Jean-Baptiste: What do you mean with disabled network interfaces? In Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network Connections? Iv'e got Bluetooth: Not connected Ethernet: Deactivated Mobile Phone: Not connected Wifi: Connected to my 5 Ghz WLAN So are you suggesting, I enable the ethernet connect...

To be more specific: Is there a way to force VLC to scan for a Chromecast device? Or can I manually input the Chromecast's IP?

Sort of the same here, VLC stuck at 'Scanning...' and it's greyed out. Only option is 'Local'. I had it working for a few days, until I restarted the computer due to Windows update. Haven't been able to establish connection between VLC and Chromecast since. Both computer and Chromecast are on same W...

"Cast Desktop" doesn't really do the trick, have tried that before VLC 3 came out, quality too bad. Lacking, sound out of synch, colors distorted. The idea of using the built-in renderer of VLC 3 i to play directly from VLC to Chromecast, not around several corners. I had it working for so...

So no solution...

What do you mean by network panel and what kind of adapters? If you mean how many devices are attached to the wireles network, there are max three computers, two network disks and a printer, cabled to the router, two phones and a repeater. But how comes VLC can't discover the Chromecast, when Chrome...

Yes, Windows 10 - forgot to mention that... Computer is a Lenovo Thinkpad Helix 2, network via Netgear R7000 Nighthawk on 5 GHz. Just thought about if it could be because the Chromecast is on 2.4 GHz, but shouldn't be an issue, or? Chromecast has 94% signal strength to router. And in other applicati...

I hope it's the right forum I'm posting in, since I'm using VLC 3.00 git version (downloaded today, so must be up to date) - I have seen some snappy (and useless) answers in the Windows related forum, so I hope for some better answers here. I'm trying to cast to my Chromecast 2, connected to my TV. ...