{"id":15031,"date":"2019-09-18T16:23:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=15031"},"modified":"2019-09-19T15:48:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T13:48:30","slug":"cast-picture-slideshows-to-chromecast-yv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/18\/cast-picture-slideshows-to-chromecast-yv\/","title":{"rendered":"Cast picture slideshows to Chromecast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Chromecast is a really funny little tool that will ease the connection of a basic TV set to a computer or your smartphone. But Google really limited the possibilities &#8211; explicitly because they wanted to keep users inside the Google biosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I wanted to use my old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qwant.com\/?q=chromecast%202013&amp;t=images\">Chromecast 2013<\/a> (but the issue and its solution are exactly the same on a more recent model) to cast a photo slideshow on a TV set which is sitting mostly unused in the kitchen of our flat. But, this did not appear easy to do from Chrome (at least not easy to me).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finally ended up with this solution: Use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irfanview.com\/\">IrfanView<\/a> to bring a slideshow to the PC screen (a laptop of a desktop will both be easy enough, but a Mac would do). Then, I ask my Chrome browser to cast the desktop to the TV further on the network. Nothing fancy, nothing elegant, but I was looking for too complicated or Chrome-integrated&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chromecast is a really funny little tool that will ease the connection of a basic TV set to a computer or your smartphone. But Google really limited the possibilities &#8211; explicitly because they wanted to keep users inside the Google biosphere. So, I wanted to use my old Chromecast 2013 (but the issue and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,32,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-google","category-photo","category-routers-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}