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Airflow?
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I tried VLC also and it seems like support for chromecast with subtitles has been repeatedly pushed back. I tried Airflow (https://airflow.app/) and it has worked well so far. It does require a one-time $20 payment to watch more than 20 mins at a time, but it's been solid.
Both work very well and they are free to try. I am particularly impressed with AirFlow. They have native M1 support and resource usage is extremely low even when transcoding.
ended up getting the sony, though kinda inconvenient since it has no 3.5mm aux input and I have to use a bluetooth transmitter connected to an outlet through a USB charger and to the TV's aux creating a very chaotic setup. the audio quality itself is good, though I can't compare with much else other than my TV's speakers. also the shitty chinese transmitter I got ends up having around 500ms of delay so it only really works when you're able to set an audio delay e.g. using some chromecasting app or hooked up with HDMI and playing on your PC on a player like mpv. tried to play PS3 and the delay is very noticeable. guess your luck might vary if you get a quality transmitter, though I'm pretty sure there's still a hard minimum of delay like 100-200ms.
I am uncertain what you mean by streaming from your PC, do you mean connecting a PC to your TV?
If you mean streaming from your PC to your Shield, I would like to mention that the Shield has a Chromecast built in. VLC player does a decent job sending movies to Chromecast, and I use a paid app (Airflow) that works far better.
Pretty awesome to stream 4k content.
I use a great and simple to use program that has no issues with subtitles (can change colors and size), doesn't need to transcode the video, and even have a remote app:
Airflow
Videostream has issues with subtitles. The subtitles get cut off at the bottom of the screen.
Kodi and Plex need to create accounts and use a server...
You’ll want to use an app called Airflow, it’ll allow you to play a file on your Mac and cast it to the Chromecast plugged into your Samsung TV. Have been using it for a few years now, works great !
You could try running this on your computer and testing the connection speed to your CCwGTV https://airflow.app/
Similar to others I have not seen any issues playing high bitrate videos to the new CC and I am using Wifi
There is a new option to disabled video transcoding in the Transcoder setting section. Check that box while testing to prevent transcoding
To cast local videos from Mac; I can highly recommend Airflow. Good support from the developer and possibly the only Mac app I'v ever spent any money on.
Casting Chrome -> three dots top right -> Cast..
> Download speed, since you're downloading from the internet
Download speed is important when getting data and upload speed is important when sending data, and the PC is sending the video data from the PC to the Chromecast right? So how is upload speed not important? Not saying you're wrong, I believe you, just a bit confused about the logic. Or, is the sending part done completely locally withing your LAN?
> No, your internet speed doesn't matter if you're casting local files.
What exactly am I bottlenecked by when casting local files? The speed of my router and ethernet cables? I cast local files using airflow.app and this program allows you to do a speed test when connecting to your Chromecast. My speedtest results are 30mbps.
If what you say is true (which I don't doubt), my questions are:
- Why does it offer a speedtest if the program ONLY casts local files?
- Why are my results only 30mpbs (my PC and router are connected via ethernet cables and my router is placed right next to my chromecast)?
Thank you for the post :) For people asking how is this different than plex:
Well, Airflow doesn't try to be plex. It's a simple solution where you can drag and drop video files and instantly stream it to Apple TV, Chromecast or any Airplay 2 enabled TV. There's no scanning, or indexing necessary.
There are people who want exactly this kind of functionality. It has its niche.
As for the actual streaming - Airflow goes far beyond being simple ffmpeg wrappers. For example you can stream files with embedded subtitles without having to rescan the whole file first to extract the stream, as is usual with ffmpeg wrappers.
You get full scrubbing preview on both your computer and Apple TV during seeking, even fast forward / reverse on Airplay enabled TVs.
Or you can airplay HEVC video with full passthrough (that means using actual Apple player), with 4K and HDR. And better yet, you can stream 4K HDR HEVC videos to any Airplay 2 enabled TV. As far as I can tell, there's no other desktop software that can do this.
Then there are features such as headphone downmix (using HRTF), adaptive volume control (that increases volume in quiet scenes such as dialog).
You can correct audio delay per device (with presets) and per file (i.e. you can have preset to correct delay for bluetooth headphones), as well as adjust subtitle sync.
There's going to be a remote control app released soon.
I don't think that is possible really. To the best of my knowledge the Apple TV app will only stream movies that are available on cloud services.
Now bit of a shameless plug here: As for airplay-ing the ripped movies from your computer to Samsung TV, as far as I know Airflow is the only app right now that supports Airplay 2 enabled TVs.
Bit late to the party: Video streaming from desktop to Chromecast and Apple TV. User interface, custom transcoding pipeline (though based on gstreamer), HTTP(s) server and client, custom object oriented IPC (i.e. server is running in separate sandboxed/low integrity process), everything is written in C++.
The IPC is one of my favorite parts. It's not just remote procedure calls. It's object oriented / reference counted, and you can do things like create instance on one process and then pass the reference to it in a message to another process.
The main project (excluding dependencies) is about 250k lines of c++ and 270k lines of c (certain dependencies kept in project, like sqlite), and builds from scratch on 4 core laptop in less than 80 seconds.
Airflow worked really well for me. Easy to use, worked first try.
Edit: didn't realize you asked for apps. This is a program you install on your computer and drag files into. Unless I'm misunderstanding.
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> (which opened in firefox)
try opening in chrome maybe?
> f i cast to TV it will be the same as using chrome to cast to TV ?
I think you have a lack of basic understanding of using the chromecast.
to understand better, try using https://airflow.app/. it has a 20 minute limit but you will understand what we mean.
or try casting any video from youtube