Alternatively, you can also use the VLC media player to cast media files from Mac using a Chromecast.
You’ll need to be using either Windows or Android to use your Chromecast with VLC. The primary limitation to Chromecast support in VLC is its operating system requirement.
First things first: though VLC 3.0 has left its beta form, Chromecast support in the platform still has some limits. For example, files still downloading via peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. VLC is a packet-based media player, and it can play the video content of some damaged, incomplete, or unfinished videos. The default distribution of VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project. 
Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.
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