http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/07/livedsc053552-1375062625.jpg We hope you aren’t depending on your Chromecast for local media playback. If you are, the device has just become a paperweight – temporarily, at least. Google’s most recent Chromecast update disables playback from external video sources, breaking third-party apps like AllCast and Fling that use the code for local-only streaming. Developer Leon Nicholls is hopeful that functionality will return when the official Cast SDK is ready for public apps, although we wouldn’t count on it*. *As Android Central notes, Google isn’t promising local media support on the Chromecast; for now, it’s focused on the cloud.
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Via: GigaOM
Source: Koushik Dutta (Google+), Leon Nicholls (Google+)