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GitHub - stupside/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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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. I built it because I couldn't cast web video from my laptop to my TV: no Chromecast, no AirPlay. Point it at any web page and Castor finds the video, extracts the stream, transcodes it for your TV, and casts in real time. It also takes a direct stream URL or an IMDB/TMDB id, and can burn in auto-generated subtitles. Run castor cast to browse and search titles, inspect posters and metadata, then cast, without leaving the terminal. Note How extraction works Castor launches headless Chrome with a randomized fingerprint and stealth scripts to hide automation. It watches all network traffic over the Chrome DevTools Protocol to capture the video stream, then runs a short action pipeline: click the page, navigate into the largest iframe, solve a Cloudflare Turnstile if one appears, and click again as a fallback.…

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