Web Video Caster

Do you want to let your Android users cast videos to the TV but don’t want the extra work of integrating your app with all those different TVs and other streaming devices?

Don’t worry, you can share videos from your app to Web Video Caster® and let Web Video Caster® handle all that.

Android and iOS custom url scheme

To share a video just call our custom url scheme like this:

wvc-x-callback://open?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyvideoaddress.com

Just replace your video url there and you are done! But don't forget to url encode all param values, including the url.

Want to pass headers or control url visibility?

Headers (multiple allowed):

&header=HEADER_NAME1:%20HEADER_VALUE1&header=HEADER_NAME2:%20HEADER_VALUE2

Hide video address and restrict other operations:

&secure_uri=true

Android Intents (the preferred method for Android apps)

The simplest way to share a video is:

String videoURL = "https://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.mp4";
Intent shareVideo = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
shareVideo.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(videoURL), "video/*");
shareVideo.setPackage("com.instantbits.cast.webvideo");
try {
    startActivity(shareVideo);
} catch (ActivityNotFoundException ex) {
    // Open Play Store if it fails to launch the app because the package doesn't exist.
    // Alternatively you could use PackageManager.getLaunchIntentForPackage() and check for null.
    // You could try catch this and launch the Play Store website if it fails but this shouldn’t
    // fail unless the Play Store is missing.
    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    String uriString = "market://details?id=com.instantbits.cast.webvideo" ;
    intent.setData(Uri.parse(uriString));
    startActivity(intent);
}

Just replace videoURL with your video and you are done!

Want extra control? Web Video Caster® will accept subtitles, headers, and more.

Subtitles:

shareVideo.putExtra("subtitle", "replace with subtitle url");

or:

shareVideo.putExtra("subs", new Uri[]{Uri.parse("http://subtitleserver.com/subtitlefile.srt")});

or:

shareVideo.putExtra("subs.filename", new Uri[]{Uri.parse("http://subtitleserver.com/subtitlefile.srt")});

Video title:

shareVideo.putExtra("title", "this is the title of the video");

Video poster url:

shareVideo.putExtra("poster", "http://posterurl");

Headers:

Bundle headers = new Bundle();
headers.putString("Referer", "http://somereferrer");
headers.putString("Cookie", "some cookie");
headers.putString("User-Agent", "user agent string");
shareVideo.putExtra("android.media.intent.extra.HTTP_HEADERS",headers);

or pass an array with name being index i and value being i+1:

String[] headers = {"Referer", "http://somereferrer", "Cookie", "some cookie", "User-Agent", "user agent string"};
shareVideo.putExtra("headers",headers);