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Chromecast, an Android Device, and UMS.
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 8:11 pm
by DeFlanko
UPDATE: (4/18/2014)
Calling all testers for ChromeCast!
With the help of a few Forum members identifying key elements, I welcome you to test this version of UMS with the Chromecast Configuration files.
What you will need:
I chose the Avia App because its the only one I have found to have the ability to do DNLA/UPnP and Cast without installing server side software.
If you have another app that can do this please mention it here, and ill see what i can do to make it work.
Otherwise I'm welcome for feedback!
Thanks,
DeFlanko
Re: Chromecast, an Android Device, and UMS.
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 11:14 am
by sukh77
Cool. Does skifta not work yet?
Nevermind Skifta didn't work, tested it.
Re: Chromecast, an Android Device, and UMS.
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 3:25 am
by DeFlanko
Skifta works... if your player is avia..but its redundant as you would still need to unlock the in app purchases for the Chromecast -- which unlocks the DNLA UPnP features too.. to Avia can do the same as skifta just with Chromecast.
Re: Chromecast, an Android Device, and UMS.
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 10:37 am
by furby82
I have tried this. It works on some files (5%) but it does not play most formats. when chromecast attempts to play it shows up on UMS as Unknown Renderer. would there be a way to create a chromecast.conf file to get it working with other formats?
Re: Chromecast, an Android Device, and UMS.
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 2:49 pm
by DeFlanko
I'm working on one... Itll mostly be custommencoderoptions... or customffmpegoptions
then hope to work with subjunk to simplify it.
Sent from my SGH-T999 Using ForumTouch for Android
Re: Chromecast, an Android Device, and UMS.
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 1:49 pm
by Cabal
Thanks for your work on this. I'm currently trying to do: UMS -> Nexus 4 with Avia -> Chromecast, and found practically none of my videos that will play, I always get the "Chromecast doesn't support..." message, even with very simple MP4s. Photos work, though, so my connection is okay.
Looking forward to it in the future!
Re: Chromecast, an Android Device, and UMS.
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:03 am
by DeFlanko
No worries... its kinda weird.
So here's what i have so far. (original Post i'll keep updated)
Re: Chromecast, an Android Device, and UMS.
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2014 11:05 am
by ssego
I've been trying to make this work lately too, and so far I can stream video but no audio unless the file is already encoded with AAC audio. I haven't figured out how to force a transcode to aac audio on the fly, regardless of settings in the .conf file. Here is what I'm using for my avia.conf
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#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Profile for Avia Media Player for Android -- Chromecast app.
# See PS3.conf for a description of all possible configuration options.
# Attempt to use vcodec=libx264:acodec=libaacplus
# Version 1
#
# User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (CrKey armv7l 1.3.14651) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.0 Safari/537.36, Referer: http://receiver.aviatheapp.com/
# User-Agent: Android/4.2.1 UPnP/1.0 Cling/2.0
# User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/UNAVAILABLE (java 1.4)
RendererName=Avia / Chromecast
RendererIcon=avia.png
UserAgentSearch= (CrKey armv7l 1.3.14975)
Video=true
Audio=true
Image=true
SeekByTime = exclusive
MaxVideoBitrateMbps = 10
CustomMencoderOptions = -channels 6 -lavdopts debug=0:threads=4 \
-lavcopts autoaspect=1:vcodec=x264:acodec=libfaac:abitrate=192 \
-vf softskip,expand=::::1:16\/9:4,scale=1280:720 \
-lacdopts fast \
-af lavcresample=48000 \
-srate=48000
-o
Any suggestions? I'm assuming I have an error in the command line somewhere.
Re: Chromecast, an Android Device, and UMS.
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2014 4:01 pm
by DeFlanko
ssego - yeah ive submitted an issue log to github -- i think there is something faulty with the
acodec:libfaac
@subjunk says its loaded ever sence SB51 but it fails when trying to use.
I think he's been meanign to look at other codecs to add to his custom MEncoder package like VP8... hopfully he checks it out soon...
I think this issue is alot tied to another issue i now have with Android 4.3 -- looks like
acodec:mp2 stopped working -- and again it looks like the fix is to use libfaac.
Re: Chromecast, an Android Device, and UMS.
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 1:19 am
by ssego
I guess for now I'll make copies of the kids' movies with aac audio so they'll get off my back
thanks for the knowledge.