My chromecast device will not be shown under Renderer menu entry. With google chrome, i can use my chromecast device. Also under windows on the same computer, vlc also finds and can use my chromecast device. Did i need to activate addional useflags, or something else needs to be configured? 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I don't have a chromecast but building vlc with USE=chromecast properly makes it link against dev-libs/protobuf-3.5.1.1 on my system. There is nothing else the build system needs for chromecast support.
(In reply to Andreas Sturmlechner from comment #1) > I don't have a chromecast but building vlc with USE=chromecast properly > makes it link against dev-libs/protobuf-3.5.1.1 on my system. There is > nothing else the build system needs for chromecast support. First of all thank you for your quick response. I have now upgraded to version 3.5.1.1 of dev-libs/protobuf from stable 3.1.0. But the device did not appear as menu entry. I also tried it as root with vlc-wrapper, also without success. I can see under plugins and extensions, that there a 4 modules available for chromecast support, screenshot attached. But something seems to be missing or still needs to be configured somewhere. Very strange...
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The commit that added USE=chromecast to 9999 (1b4324c1) contains: >Added chromecast support. To use, run -sout="#chromecast{ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx}" That indicates USE=chromecast should require USE=enode, but you have that enabled as well.
Can you try with USE=vlm enabled?
(In reply to Andreas Sturmlechner from comment #5) > Can you try with USE=vlm enabled? Unfortunately, no difference. I am currently playing with the software wireshark, and I can already see that there is definitely a communication between my Gentoo and the chromecast: 192.168.1.125 = my gentoo machine, 192.168.1.113 = chromecast 165 30.703126540 192.168.1.125 192.168.1.113 AJP13 181 AJP13 Error? [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU] I will try next weekend to compare the output of vlc under windows and linux, maybe I will find something.
Same issue here, with media-video/vlc-3.0.0-r2 as well. Can cast from my browser just fine but VLC does not find the device.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6e9580a0446a03a4fb89375b2c3e03671cf6395c commit 6e9580a0446a03a4fb89375b2c3e03671cf6395c Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-02-25 22:56:17 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-02-25 22:57:41 +0000 media-video/vlc: USE=chromecast needs USE=encode Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/647668 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.24, Repoman-2.3.6 media-video/vlc/vlc-3.0.0-r2.ebuild | 1 + media-video/vlc/vlc-3.0.9999.ebuild | 1 + media-video/vlc/vlc-9999.ebuild | 1 + 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+)}
and yet it runs, at least via the command line: vlc --sout="#chromecast{ip=192.168.1.113}" ./test.mp4 VLC media player 3.0.0 Vetinari (revision 3.0.0-30-gef4c265336) [0000559cffd00250] main libvlc: VLC wird mit dem Standard-Interface ausgeführt. Benutzen Sie 'cvlc', um VLC ohne Interface zu verwenden. [0000559cffdd0820] qt interface error: Unable to load extensions module [00007efdec003db0] gnutls tls client error: Certificate verification failure: The certificate is NOT trusted. The certificate issuer is unknown. The certificate chain uses insecure algorithm. The name in the certificate does not match the expected. [00007efdec003db0] gnutls tls client: Accepting self-signed/untrusted CA certificate. uint DBusMenuExporterDBus::GetLayout(int, int, const QStringList&, DBusMenuLayoutItem&): Condition failed: menu The device still does NOT appear in the GUI. I had seen this week by chance that the chromecast itself had received an firmware update. I had reversed the update of dev-libs/protobuf back to the stable version. However, there was probably a stabilization update of some libraries and a rebuild of vlc itself in the meantime. Whether the firmware update has helped or it was just a coincidence that it is now working, I can not say. The encode feature is apparently only used when jumping to another timestamp in the video. It then sometimes takes up to ~10 seconds for the video to play back correctly, but that seems systemic with the chromecast. Here is an example output: [00007fd24ca07180] x264 encoder: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX [00007fd24ca07180] x264 encoder: profile High, level 3.1 [00007fd2780009e0] main input error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR is called too late (pts_delay increased to 300 ms) [00007fd24ca06dd0] avcodec generic: Using NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library 390.25 Wed Jan 24 19:28:27 PST 2018 for hardware decoding [00007fd272a090f0] main decoder error: buffer deadlock prevented [00007fd24ca07180] x264 encoder: using SAR=1/1 [00007fd24ca07180] x264 encoder: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX [00007fd24ca07180] x264 encoder: profile High, level 3.1 [matroska @ 0x7fd24c0028a0] pts (18181893) < dts (18182829) in stream 1 [00007fd24c0024f0] avformat mux error: could not write frame (pts: 18181893144, dts: 18182829879) (pkt pts: 18181893, dts: 18182829) [matroska @ 0x7fd24c0028a0] pts (18182053) < dts (18182869) in stream 1 [00007fd24c0024f0] avformat mux error: could not write frame (pts: 18182053144, dts: 18182869879) (pkt pts: 18182053, dts: 18182869) [matroska @ 0x7fd24c0028a0] pts (18190390) < dts (18191293) in stream 1 [00007fd24c0024f0] avformat mux error: could not write frame (pts: 18190390787, dts: 18191293144) (pkt pts: 18190390, dts: 18191293) [matroska @ 0x7fd24c0028a0] pts (18190470) < dts (18191333) in stream 1 [00007fd24c0024f0] avformat mux error: could not write frame (pts: 18190470787, dts: 18191333144) (pkt pts: 18190470, dts: 18191333) [matroska @ 0x7fd24c0028a0] pts (18194510) < dts (18195790) in stream 1 [00007fd24c0024f0] avformat mux error: could not write frame (pts: 18194510282, dts: 18195790787) (pkt pts: 18194510, dts: 18195790) [matroska @ 0x7fd24c0028a0] pts (18194670) < dts (18195830) in stream 1 [00007fd24c0024f0] avformat mux error: could not write frame (pts: 18194670282, dts: 18195830787) (pkt pts: 18194670, dts: 18195830) I will try the 3.0.9999 version the next days, maybe it will work then directly via GUI.
Same for me, even with encode use flag enabled.
With the new 3.0.1 version (renamed existing ebuild) chromecast support is again completely broken for me. TV goes black for a short time, but the buffering sequence will not shown anymore. On the console I dont see any errors. Downgrade back to 3.0.0, the playback works again ... VLC media player 3.0.1 Vetinari (revision 3.0.1-0-gec0f700fcc)
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=232f954250b035d44fc0c8a4df5785575b46587a commit 232f954250b035d44fc0c8a4df5785575b46587a Author: NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-03-01 20:51:02 +0000 Commit: NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-03-01 20:51:02 +0000 media-video/vlc: Fix chromecast auto-detection Chromecasts will now be autodetected when using USE=microdns to provide Chromecast mdns support. Autodetected Chromecasts display in the Playback->Renderer submenu. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/647668 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.24, Repoman-2.3.6 media-video/vlc/metadata.xml | 1 + .../vlc/{vlc-3.0.0-r2.ebuild => vlc-3.0.0-r3.ebuild} | 19 ++++++++++++++----- media-video/vlc/vlc-3.0.9999.ebuild | 19 ++++++++++++++----- media-video/vlc/vlc-9999.ebuild | 19 ++++++++++++++----- 4 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
