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This is a fantastic idea! Ive been wanting a simple Chromecast replacement software for a while, and I think you're on the right path. A simple android app or Firefox extension would make adding links a lot smoother. All they would need to do is open a link in the browser, so they would be trivial really.
I would be down to help with this and getting more complicated features working =]
For adding with Firefox or similar apps on laptop. I have another program that monitors clipboard (or selection), can filter with regex and run custom commands. So simply copying the url to the video can trigger the curl command to add to playlist.
Making it in the phone is the hard part. I don't know much about android dev so any help would be appreciated. I did find somewhere you can make a simple app with protocol definition for sharing, and on share to the app, run the request to the server in the local network.
I also want to implement file share, if you share a file to that app from local storage, it could upload to the server and mpv can stream it. Since I have used the basic tcp connection, I couldn't do that in this version either.