VLC 3.0 Released

The best free media player is getting even better. After three years of development, VLC 3.0 ‘Ventari’ is rolling out to all platforms, and it’s packed full of goodies such as Chromecast support. ....
The latest version of VLC contains a lot of great additions, as well as a tweaked UI. Chromecast discovery tops the list. It’s only available on Windows desktop and Android right now, but Videolan says the feature’s coming to VLC’s iOS and the Windows Store apps in the future.

VideoLAN designed VLC’s Chromecast support as a workaround for any media formats Chromecast can’t natively support. VLC can re-encode video on the fly to make it work with Chromecast, including casting DVDs from your Windows machine. - VLC 3.0 adds Chromecast and 360-degree video support | PCWorld

VLC official download page - VLC 3.0 Vetinari - VideoLAN
For Windows 64bit, click drop down menu next to Download VLC button here - https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

Thanks for The Info

Steve C said:

The original Chromecast I bought a few years ago fails to work with VLC 3.0 but it works fine when casting from Chrome. It seems VLC still has work to do.

My CC is a first gen one and it worked fine.