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Mesh Delivery for Chromecast

Mesh Delivery supports integration with classic web-based Chromecast receivers as well as with Android-based Chromecast with Google TVs. This document covers Web-based integration. For Android-based integration for Chromecast, the steps for integration would be the same as integrating with any android app.

 

For Web-based integration, The Google Cast SDK enables you to extend your Android, iOS, or Chrome app to direct its streaming video and audio to a TV set.
 

For Mesh Delivery to work with the Web-based Chromecast receiver, you need to build a custom receiver application. A custom receiver is an HTML5 app that you host on your servers and must be implemented using the JavaScript Receiver API.
 

For more details about how to build a custom receiver application with the Receiver API, refer to Google's Custom Receiver guide.

Install and set up Mesh Delivery

If you use the default receiver application and do not import any additional player, Shaka Player is the default player on Chromecast. In this case, use the following steps:

 

Step 1: Install Mesh Delivery build

                <!-- Streamroot plugin -->
<script src="//cdn.streamroot.io/shakaplayer-dna-autowrapper/1/stable/shakaplayer-dna-autowrapper.js"></script>

Step 2: Set up Mesh Delivery
 

In the HTML <body> 

                // Streamroot-injected information
window.streamrootDna = {
  streamrootKey: 'YOUR_STREAMROOT_KEY',
  dnaConfig: {} 
};

Parameter name

Mandatory

Description

dnaConfig

No

The object in which you can pass Mesh Delivery options (property, contentIdGenerator, id, etc.).

YOUR_STREAMROOT_KEY

Yes

The unique Streamroot key that we have assigned to you; make sure it is identical to the one provided in the Account section of your dashboard.

If you use any other player, refer to our Web Player documentation to integrate and set up the appropriate Mesh Delivery plugin in your custom receiver application.