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equaeghe
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 Posted: Thu May 31, 2018 10:59 am Post subject: Anyone gotten VLC to chromecast successfully? |
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The newly stabilized VLC has chromecast support. I wanted to try it, but casting does not work: the chromecast is detected and a cast icon shows on the TV, but nothing plays when I try to cast a video. When I try to cast an MP3, I see the MP3 name on the TV with a blue progress bar, but it does not progress, the progress+info bar just flickers on and off.
Did anyone successfully chromecast on Gentoo using VLC? Did you have to do anything specific to get things working? |
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msst
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No idea and my answer is only a guess, but are you using the TVs native chromecast support?
It seems to be that many TV vendors just hack their kinda own version so this does not always works in each combi. Can you try a more generic chromecast / miracast USB stick on the TV? |
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equaeghe
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2018 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| msst wrote: | | […], but are you using the TVs native chromecast support?[…] |
No, I'm using the standard Google Chromecast dongle. |
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asturm
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| Code: | | * USE=microdns is required for Chromecast autodetection support |
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equaeghe
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2018 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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| asturm wrote: | | Code: | | * USE=microdns is required for Chromecast autodetection support |
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I have that use flag set and autodetection works. The issue presents itself when trying to cast. |
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lyallp
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 1:59 am Post subject: |
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Doing better than me, I don't even see the TV, which has a Chromecast 1 dongle.
I just see the endless orange/grey spinner.
Chromium, on the same system does show the TV.
EDIT: Recent rebuild of VLC to 3.0.2 (Vetinari), has the new Renderer menu, in which my TV showed up.
Once I selected the TV, then opening a video from My Videos played on my TV, with sound.
Initial impressions are all good!
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equaeghe
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| I tracked it down to a firewall issue. When I disable my firewall (on the machine I'm streaming from) when starting the video, it does work. Even if I re-enable the firewall, it keeps going. But if I do more than just pause/play, e.g., jump to another point in the video, it blocks again. Any insight about what ports to open? |
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albright
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I got it to "work" - but for me it is very flaky with
frequent connection drops, after which the chromecast
disappears from the "renderer" tab.
I think this was reverse engineered and is little more
than a proof of concept at the moment.
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