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You won't find the familiar "cast" button that you see in many apps in this VLC build. Instead, the "Tools" menu has a new option called "Render Output"—this screen is for playing media on something other than the computer screen in front of you. It will detect and display Chromecasts on your local network, and the detection process seems to work great. You just pick the device you want to use and hit "OK."

If you're playing media you'll need to stop it, and then once you hit play the casting process should start. I got an "unknown certificate" error at first, but, after accepting it, the usual Chromecast stuff started to happen. My TV turned on and switched to the right input. A Chromecast logo appeared, the loading bar popped up—and then it failed.

This is a nightly build, so some problems are to be expected. Different media types seem to yield different results—I got an MP4 video to briefly stream for a minute before it crapped out. If you want to experiment with the VLC nightlies yourself, the page here lists them all. There are builds for Win32, Win64, and Linux, but MacOS builds aren't yet downloadable.