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I didn't know you could drag and drop local video into Chrome tab to play. Does it play smoothly on Chromecast? I couldn't get any of the online streaming on chrome tab to play smoothly. Lots of skipping and freezing. One way I could make local video play on chromecast is to upload them to YouTube and then play them from YouTube. YouTube and NetFlix works fine.
Don't know about how they play on Chromecast, but you can play MKV or other local files in Chrome...a shortcut is to press Ctrl + O and navigate to the file on your local or network device.