chromecastize vs castblock

chromecastize

Bash script to convert video files into Google Chromecast supported format. (by petrkotek)

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castblock

Automatically skip integrated ads on youtube playing on chromecast (by stephen304)

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chromecastize		castblock
	Project
1	Mentions	4
178	Stars	80
-	Growth	-
1.8	Activity	2.0
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
Shell	Language	Shell
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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chromecastize

Posts with mentions or reviews of chromecastize. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-20.

What tip did you wish someone told you when you first started using Plex? What tool do you wish you knew about from the beginning?
2 projects | /r/PleX | 20 Aug 2021

since I consume most of my contents in chromecast I typically use https://github.com/petrkotek/chromecastize to "pre-transcode"

castblock

Posts with mentions or reviews of castblock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-12.

Automatically skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos playing on Chromecast
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2022
You can also block ads on chromecast/TV!!
2 projects | /r/SponsorBlock | 12 Dec 2021
I got sick of ads and "recommendations". ATV Launcher Pro on Bravia
1 project | /r/AndroidTV | 29 Apr 2021

Maybe try this! https://github.com/stephen304/castblock
Introducing Castblock PHP
2 projects | /r/SponsorBlock | 28 Feb 2021

It was heavily inspired by stephen304/castblock, but that had some limitations. I later discovered some other oss projects that also were designed to work around these limitations, but there were none yet that were written in PHP.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing chromecastize and castblock you can also consider the following projects:

castblock - Automatically skip sponsor segments and ads in YouTube videos playing on Chromecast.

addon-adguard-home - AdGuard Home - Home Assistant Community Add-ons

Prowlarr

PotPlayer-SponsorBlock - Modified version of the default PotPlayer YouTube extension that adds SponsorBlock support.

AirConnect-Synology - Updated AirConnect packages for Synology NAS and Synology Router

hblock - Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains.

chai - chai - Experience Zero Trust security with Chai! Convert and view documents as vivid images right in your browser. No mandatory downloads, no hassle—just pure, joyful security! 🌈

no-google - Completely block Google and its services

wallset - A wallpaper manager that makes it possible to put videos as wallpaper

castblock-php - Automatically skip sponsor mentions in Youtube videos playing on your Chromecast

FFMPEG-gif-script-for-bash - Turn your videos into palette-mapped gifs with this easy script

sponsorblockcast - A shell script that skips sponsored YouTube content on all local Chromecasts