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I'm using mint 18 and chromium 55. I have chromecast set up and connected to the network. I can connect to it from my Android device but the chromium browser can't find it. I tried resetting the mediarouter and I have seen that the extension for chromecast is discontinued and I can't install it.

Anything else I can do?

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To resolve this issue you need to enable chrome://flags/#load-media-router-component-extension

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  • After enabling this, my Chromium cannot restart anymore... Crash and exit immediately without asking as the main window popup. At last, I have to rm ~/.config/chromium to make Chromium available again.
    – kuanyui
    Commented Jan 11, 2018 at 7:07
  • Hi there, this bug exists indeed. You have two solutions : 1) if you use chromium you don't need to remove ~/.config/chromium. You just need to launch chromium --disable-extensions once, close it, and then relaunch chromium normally. 2) Use google chrome which works perfectly with chromecast
    – mhham
    Commented Jan 14, 2018 at 0:30
  • Yes, finally I installed google-chrome and finally can find chromcast.
    – kuanyui
    Commented Jan 14, 2018 at 14:56
  • This helped me on Windows too with chromium v72, I guess it's a Chromium issue not a linux one
    – Diaa Sami
    Commented Mar 9, 2019 at 13:00
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I had to enable #load-media-router-component-extension and #cast-media-route-provider (well, actually, I don't know if only the last one made it work or both, I've been trying different things for a while). Both flags can be found in chrome://flags.

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  • Needed both too. Chromium Version 80.0.3987.149 Debian 10.3
    – locoMotion
    Commented Apr 2, 2020 at 4:07
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    Just needed the second - #cast-media-route-provider; Arch Linux, Version 83.0.4103.116 (Official Build) Arch Linux (64-bit). Also had to start avahi-daemon.service for VLC to see it.
    – Iiridayn
    Commented Jul 3, 2020 at 4:05

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