It’s possible to cast content from your Chrome desktop browser to a Chromecast but you don’t always get the best quality when streaming content this way. Quality issues are particularly noticeable when trying to cast content from sources that don’t have native support for Chromecast. Google has now confirmed that it has made some changes to the way Chrome handles tab casting in order to significantly improve quality.
If you’re used to casting tabs from Chrome to the Chromecast, you may have noticed that tab casting can tend to be very laggy at times. Frame drops remain a constant source of a headache and it’s never possible to view the video in its original quality.
Google’s François Beaufort has detailed that Chrome won’t just mirror the entire tab now. It’s going to send the exact video stream directly to Chromecast instead.
To take advantage of this, all users need to do is toggle full-screen mode on the content they’re watching and Chrome will do the rest. This change is going to enable users to conserve battery life on their notebooks while keeping video quality intact.
This feature hasn’t been enabled by default for all Chrome users yet but it can be enabled manually by heading to chrome://flags/#media-remoting in Chrome and enabling the highlighted flag.
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