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Is there a standard discovery / casting protocol for audio (and possibly video) via WiFi / LAN that Windows supports natively? Natively in the sense as AirPlay is natively supported for audio output on Apple Macs, Tablets and Phones or as bluetooth speakers are discovered and provisioned as audio output devices natively under windows.

If so what protocols are supported / used?

Xaser
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For casting video or audio, Windows 10 supports casting to DLNA compatible devices from the Cast To menu.

There are purportedly hundreds of devices that allow streaming via DLNA compatibility, such as Playstation 4, and some Sonos audio devices.

You can follow steps to do that from this website, as an example.

edit removed Bluetooth option as it is not a WiFi standard.

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This seems to be a question that gets asked a lot

AFAIK, there is no "native" (from system settings) way to set up a wi-fi speaker to stream all system audio. There are myriad music-specific applications that can stream music-on-you-computer - see all of those other linked posts for answers around that: but most people want to use a browser-based service (like Spotify, Youtube Music, or Pandora). To do this, you need to run a program that caputures audio and turns it into a data stream. The best application for this used to be Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil for Windows. Unfortunately, support for Airfoil for windows was discontinued.

There are two other programs that will do this. Both use DLNA casting and can capture all audio - your choice of either one application (e.g. Chrome/Firefox/Edge), or all system audio (including alerts). I still own a copy of Airfoil - which still works for the time being. There are two other programs which do the same thing (I have used neither, so can't vouch for either, but have heard good things about both). They are: SWYH and Play-Fi.

Hope that helps you all!

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