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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?

Tom Klino
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  • No fix yet: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1621753 – anubhava Mar 08 '17 at 11:52
  • currently works perfectly with my chromecast and Chromium Version 69.0.3497.81 (Official Build) Built on Ubuntu , running on LinuxMint 19 (64-bit) no changes or plug-ins needed – flyingdrifter Sep 17 '18 at 01:50

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

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mhham
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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 Jan 11 '18 at 07:07
  • 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 Jan 14 '18 at 00:30
  • Yes, finally I installed google-chrome and finally can find chromcast. – kuanyui Jan 14 '18 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 Mar 09 '19 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 Apr 02 '20 at 04:07
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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 Jul 03 '20 at 04:05