#Ubuntu screencast install#

Debian / Ubuntu / Pop!_OS: sudo apt install ffmpeg npm nodejs gstreamer1.0-plugins.PulseAudio (and pacmd) are also required, but these should already be installed in most cases.

#Ubuntu screencast tv#

Cast to TV - Desktop Stream Add-on has some dependencies too: the GStreamer base, good, bad and ugly plugins. Install the required Cast to TV and Cast to TV - Desktop Add-on dependencies.Ĭast to TV extension requires npm and Node.js for some modules, and FFmpeg for transcoding.

Gnomecast, a GUI application to stream local audio and video files to a Chromecastġ.

More ways of streaming to a Chromecast from Linux: Using these steps, the whole Cast to TV functionality will be enabled, so you won't have just the ability to cast your desktop, but also cast video, music and pictures from your GNOME Shell desktop. This is what you need to do in detail, on Debian / Ubuntu, Fedora or Arch Linux / Manjaro. To use Cast to TV to stream your GNOME Shell desktop (version 3.34 or 3.36 only!) to a Chromecast, you'll need to install Cast to TV version 14 (or newer) and Cast to TV Desktop Add-on, install some GStreamer plugins, and tweak some PulseAudio settings. Setting up Cast to TV for casting your desktop to a Chromecast, in Debian / Ubuntu / Pop!_OS, Fedora or Arch Linux / Manjaro You might also like: Chromecast Extension For Firefox fx_cast 0.0.5 Adds Support For YouTube, Subtitles For Local Media. It can also cast local pictures, video and audio files with optional transcoding, GPU-accelerated video encoding for low CPU usage, subtitles, and more. So use whichever solution suits your needs best.Ĭast to TV can do a lot more than cast your desktop to a Chromecast. Google Chrome has a couple of advantages over Cast to TV too: it has a lower stream delay (Cast to TV currently has a delay of about 3 seconds), and it works with desktop environments other than GNOME Shell.

and you also get the option of showing or hiding your mouse cursor.

it has hardware acceleration (VAAPI for Intel/AMD and NVENC for Nvidia graphics).

it has customizable video bitrate and fps.

it supports Wayland, this probably being the only way to cast your desktop to a Chromecast device from Wayland.

it streams your desktop with working audio, which doesn't work on Linux with Google Chrome.Cast to TV has some advantages over Google Chrome for Chromecast desktop streaming though: Officially, you can stream your Linux desktop to a Chromecast by using Google Chrome. The step-by-step instructions are for Debian / Ubuntu / Pop!_OS, Fedora and Arch Linux / Manjaro (the steps should be the same on any GNOME Shell based Linux distribution, but the packages might have different names).

#Ubuntu screencast how to#

This article explains how to use Cast to TV (and its helper add-on) to cast your GNOME Shell desktop to a Chromecast device, with sound, which works with both X11 and Wayland.