Just wanted to share some tidbits. I’m watching the Olympics on CBC Canada. I’ve got a VPN account (NordVPN) and that part works great, I can watch all day on my laptop browser. But when trying to cast it, there are problems. Chrome has built-in casting, but the later versions of Chrome appear to include geo-blocking, which then won’t work. I was able to get an older version of Chrome, which works great. (Just have to disable it from auto-updating.)
From a Chromebook I get the same problem, but I can’t downgrade Chrome there. If I try to just “cast” the whole screen, it does work but I have to do it in the right order.
- From a blank start, cast the screen “desktop”
- Open browser but don’t go anywhere
- Start NordVPN, connect to Canada
- From browser, go to CBC and start your video, expand to fill whole screen
If I try to start the video first and then connect to Chromecast, the connection fails.