Microsoft Edge browser supports video, audio and picture casting to any Miracast and DLNA enabled devices. Microsoft has provided a few scenarios to try out such as cast a video from YouTube, a Facebook photo album or music from Pandora.

Cast Media to Device in Edge browser

You can cast Microsoft Edge (Chromium) content to a Wireless Display, and the procedure to do it is simple. Simply connect your wireless device to your PC, open Edge and search for multimedia content. We’ll see the procedure for both: Proceed further for the detailed description!

1] Enable Cast Media to device

For casting a video from YouTube, go to YouTube.com in Microsoft Edge. Click on the ‘Settings and more‘ option (visible as 3 dots) in the extreme right-hand corner.

Then, select ‘More Tools‘ from the list of options displayed and then,  ‘Cast media to device’.

The browser will then start looking for a Miracast or DLNA device you want to cast to. To cast a Facebook photo album simply login to Facebook in Microsoft Edge and click on the first photo in one of your photo albums to cast. Click on the “…” menu and select ‘More Tools‘ > ‘Cast media to device’ and select the Miracast or DLNA device you want to cast to. Later, simply navigate through your photo album by accessing the forward and backward buttons. To cast your music from Pandora, login to Pandora in Microsoft Edge to get to your music and click on the “…” menu and select ‘More Tools‘ > ‘Cast media to device’ and select the Miracast or DLNA device you want to cast to.

 

2] Disable Cast Media to Device from Context Menu

If you would like to disable or remove the entry ‘Cast Media to Device’ from your context menu, for some reason you could use Nirsoft’s ShellExView and disable the ‘Play To menu‘ entry. The ShellExView utility displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer and allows you to easily disable and enable each of them. Get the utility from this page. Alternatively, create a system restore point first and then copy-paste the following in Notepad and save it as a .reg file: Having done this, double-click on this .reg file to add its contents to your Windows Registry. TIP: This post will help you if Cast Media to device is not working on Microsoft Edge.