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Yes. It works on my non-rooted chromecast. You need to have purchased a Plex pass subscription in order for it to work.
Movies & TV shows work well if they are burned to your computer & follow the correct naming scheme. Some Plex channels work & some don't. The only thing I haven't been able to stream to chromecast is pictures & slideshows. Otherwise, it has worked great.
What Plex channels worked for you? None of the ones I tried at random worked for me.
Overall it works fine for casting local content. The only issue is that the Plex app on my Android tablet disconnects from the Chromecast after a few minutes, and I have to reconnect it to get control back. I can reconnect without interrupting the video if I do it the right way. The Plex app doesn't disconnect from my Roku player, so it looks like the issue is on the Chromecast side.
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What Plex channels worked for you? None of the ones I tried at random worked for me.
Overall it works fine for casting local content. The only issue is that the Plex app on my Android tablet disconnects from the Chromecast after a few minutes, and I have to reconnect it to get control back. I can reconnect without interrupting the video if I do it the right way. The Plex app doesn't disconnect from my Roku player, so it looks like the issue is on the Chromecast side.
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There is a bug in the Plex Control protocol but it seems to be limited to the device that starts the stream as others seem to be able to jump onto the control and not have restart issues.
Try this and see if I'm correct there....
Next time you lose control, Force Kill the Plex App on your device, Then reload and select the CCast that is streaming.
You should resume control without seeing the Restart from scratch bug.
The loss of control may be CCast related but it may also be WiFi related. Any loss of connection on the device side (even switching bands) seems to disrupt the ability to control.
Plex Devs are aware there is an issue but right now all their CCast attention seems to be focused on the Transcoder and the Surround Sound Transcoding issue.
MediaBrowser will be adding Chromecast support soon.
www.mediabrowser3.com
MediaBrower Server can also act as a backend server for Plex
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Next time you lose control, Force Kill the Plex App on your device, Then reload and select the CCast that is streaming.
You should resume control without seeing the Restart from scratch bug.
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I don't have to do anything that drastic. I can simply reconnect to the Chromecast and resume control of the current Plex stream without interrupting it as long as I don't change the selection. That's why it's not a big deal.
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I don't have to do anything that drastic. I can simply reconnect to the Chromecast and resume control of the current Plex stream without interrupting it as long as I don't change the selection. That's why it's not a big deal.
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So your not seeing the Loss of Control, Reconnect and Restart from beginning bug?
I wonder if they fixed that in a recent update...Could be...
DJames1 said:
What Plex channels worked for you? None of the ones I tried at random worked for me.
Overall it works fine for casting local content. The only issue is that the Plex app on my Android tablet disconnects from the Chromecast after a few minutes, and I have to reconnect it to get control back. I can reconnect without interrupting the video if I do it the right way. The Plex app doesn't disconnect from my Roku player, so it looks like the issue is on the Chromecast side.
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I am able to get Nickjr, That Daily Show, and The Colbert Report channels working. However, many others don't work.
Sucks that if your internet goes down that you can't stream local plex content to a chromecast. I was sad when I observed that. Maybe that'll be fixed in the future.
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Huh, you're right about that, just tried it. With no internet connection the Chromecast won't connect to Plex over the LAN and instead gives the cheery error message "Oops, shouldn't be here." Along with that other delightful message "Brain freeze!" that you get when Pandora doesn't work, it really helps give the impression of a mature, well-designed, user-friendly product. I'm expecting to see "Shucks, we done screwed up." any time now.
The real player cloud app works well. No $$ needed. And you don't have to upload anything. It'll play smoothly regardless. I'm sorry I spent money on plex to find out that I still needed a subscription
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You don't need Plex pass, just the Plex for android app is enough. It's released about 10 days ago. It works like a charm for me.
betizad said:
You don't need Plex pass, just the Plex for android app is enough. It's released about 10 days ago. It works like a charm for me.
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That's not true. You do need the $3.99/month Plex Pass. The paid Plex for Android app alone is not enough. Perhaps you are referring to the special developer version that was temporarily linked here in this forum before being removed. That was not an officially sanctioned release.
As said above, you need to be PlexPass member. PlexPass members have access to the development Android app which is no extra cost. On a side note, I thought they brought back the life subscription.
More on topic, I have used the Chromecast with Plex. It works fine for me. I don't recall if I tried on my LAN that has the PMS. I have used it work and worked well; I bring a TV, use my smartphone for internet access and router, and a tablet to control plex (phone doesn't get an local IP).
Towards channels that work, I've tried Revision3 and worked fine.
The only issue I have encountered is that the resume feature for movies/tv shows doesn't work. I get the load screen. The load screen disappears, but no movie plays. The tablet doesn't show the movie playing either. Basically, you have to restart the movie, and then jump to where you left off. I've seen this issue before with the Android app, which was eventually fixed.
I haven't tried music or pictures.
This is how I get around the problem of Plex for Android disconnecting from the Chromecast while playing a video:
1. The problem:
I start the stream on the Chromecast from Plex on my Android tablet. Initially I can control it from the tablet. A few minutes later I check the tablet screen again, and I see that Plex has disconnected from the Chromecast and the playback controls have disappeared. If I reconnect to the Chromecast, the controls do not come back. If I back up to the previous screen and hit Play again, the video restarts from the beginning.
2. The solution:
When I reconnected to the Chromecast, I should have noticed a small Plex notification icon appear in the notification area at the bottom of the screen. If I click on that, it shows me that the Chromecast is currently playing a video, and I can tap the entry to reconnect to that video stream. The controls come back without interrupting the Chromecast.
It only stays connected for a few minutes before it disconnects again, but at least I can regain control at any time with a few clicks. It's a bit of a strange quirk, because this doesn't happen when I play a video remotely on my Roku using Plex on the tablet to control it (and BTW there's no extra cost or requirement for Plex Pass to play from the Android app to the Roku).
This always works reliably when I am playing a single video. I have seen problems though when I have played multiple videos in a row. In that case when I reconnect to the Chromecast it may suddenly flip back to a previous video and restart at the beginning of that stream before it gives me the chance to select the current stream from the notification icon.
Slightly OT but newsworthy....
Plex has released a PlexPass preview of PMS (0.9.9.0) that is said to fix the Surround Sound Transcoding issues.
Back to the topic at hand...
I'm sure there is a bug in the Plex Control Protocol...
Just about everyone has seen the problem you describe. And I think it is in the Player App that gets loaded to the CCast which they probably haven't looked at recently. Too busy on the Transcoding and PlexWeb stuff.
Why it loses the connection in the first place may not be Plex related just something that is related to Normal WiFi connections that Plex needs to compensate for in their app.
I don't have any info to back up this notion but I am betting that whatever dev team they have working on the Player App for the CCast side is busy working on Music and Picture support (and it's playlist requirements) and what we are using now is just a down and dirty Video Player since that is the Primary Media people stream from Plex and there are so many other options for playing Music available already (Like Google Music app)
Music will on it's own require an expansion and fleshing out of the Control protocol to enable things like Repeat, Shuffle, FF and REW as well as solving the problem of the CCast sending a signal to play next file in the Playlist. That should also solve the issue some are having with multipart videos not playing properly as well.
Works for me. You have to purchase a full subscription in order for it to work. Also make sure when you open the browser you refresh it after you turn or or wake your computer. Chromecast doesn't need to be rooted.
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I pointed the Plex PC application to the folder on my hard drive where my local media content is stored and was subsequently able to use the plex android app to play these items on my chromecast but my question is how do I make sure that the chromecast is playing these media files via the local LAN and not using the internet to do it? i.e. I want to make sure its not using my internet cap space to stream when Ive already downloaded the files and have them on my PC.
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I pointed the Plex PC application to the folder on my hard drive where my local media content is stored and was subsequently able to use the plex android app to play these items on my chromecast but my question is how do I make sure that the chromecast is playing these media files via the local LAN and not using the internet to do it? i.e. I want to make sure its not using my internet cap space to stream when Ive already downloaded the files and have them on my PC.
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Try disconnecting your Internet connection while the video is playing then wait a while (at least a minute or two). If continues to play without Internet connection you can rest assured, it's not proxying the media through an external server.
If you disconnect before Plex launches on the Chromecast it may not launch because Chromecast won't be able to look at the Google whitelist.
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Try disconnecting your Internet connection while the video is playing then wait a while (at least a minute or two). If continues to play without Internet connection you can rest assured, it's not proxying the media through an external server.
If you disconnect before Plex launches on the Chromecast it may not launch because Chromecast won't be able to look at the Google whitelist.
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I'm a newbie in all of this and curious to learn... Why is this necessary? When I'm home, my smartphone is connected to my home network via wifi. Couldn't he just make sure his smartphone is connected to his home network via wifi? If he disconnects, he will no longer be able to browse his collection on the PC and will have to reconnect to select a different movie, correct?
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Hey everyone. I've had my chromecast for about a week now and I have some nagging issues which hopefully are just bugs which google will fix. Nonetheless, I thought I would see if anyone else faced the same issues. Ok first, most of the time when I cast something syncing works fine. I cast lets say YouTube and every other device finds the chromecast and I am able to interact with it as expected. Occasionally, I will start a video and then move to a different device and that new device does not automatically connect to the chromecast and display the queue as I would expect. Instead, I have to hit the connect button in the app and manually have it connect. Sometimes when I do this it picks up the queue fine and other-times it preempts the video queue and stops playback. I never know going into it how it's going to react and it has annoyingly killed a queue several videos long.
Much more annoying is Play music. On the device which initiates the cast I can interact as expected. However, on any other device I pick up the queue never syncs at all. Further, if I try and connect with another device it boots off the first device and goes back to the screen with the headphones. Where youtube does this occasionally, play music does it every-time without fail. What's even more annoying is that the remotecast app which was released several days ago works while casting play music. It has never once killed a queue. It connects perfectly and allows me to play and pause as expected across devices so I suspect that it might be an issue with google's code. Anybody else have these problems?
I have the same issue with play music. Owning a Nexus Q this is frustrating. The Q synced seamlessly between devices.
Google is pushing updates to both chromecast and the play music app right now so it could be fixed.
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haberda said:
Hey everyone. I've had my chromecast for about a week now and I have some nagging issues which hopefully are just bugs which google will fix. Nonetheless, I thought I would see if anyone else faced the same issues. Ok first, most of the time when I cast something syncing works fine. I cast lets say YouTube and every other device finds the chromecast and I am able to interact with it as expected. Occasionally, I will start a video and then move to a different device and that new device does not automatically connect to the chromecast and display the queue as I would expect. Instead, I have to hit the connect button in the app and manually have it connect. Sometimes when I do this it picks up the queue fine and other-times it preempts the video queue and stops playback. I never know going into it how it's going to react and it has annoyingly killed a queue several videos long.
Much more annoying is Play music. On the device which initiates the cast I can interact as expected. However, on any other device I pick up the queue never syncs at all. Further, if I try and connect with another device it boots off the first device and goes back to the screen with the headphones. Where youtube does this occasionally, play music does it every-time without fail. What's even more annoying is that the remotecast app which was released several days ago works while casting play music. It has never once killed a queue. It connects perfectly and allows me to play and pause as expected across devices so I suspect that it might be an issue with google's code. Anybody else have these problems?
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Hey Haberda ! I'm the RemoteCast developer and I just wanted to let you know that the way RemoteCast has been developed shouldn't interfere with your playback in any negative way. The app is following the standards Google made available for developers, which was made for multiple connections to the device. I think the issue is on the Chromecast itself. It's still a young platform, give it a few months to catch up with expectations.
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Hey Haberda ! I'm the RemoteCast developer and I just wanted to let you know that the way RemoteCast has been developed shouldn't interfere with your playback in any negative way. The app is following the standards Google made available for developers, which was made for multiple connections to the device. I think the issue is on the Chromecast itself. It's still a young platform, give it a few months to catch up with expectations.
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Remotecast works great! It's the only reliable way for me to connect across devices without fear of killing my current stream. Thanks for the good work!
I have looked around but haven't seen anyone talking about this issue so apologize if I missed something.
I am trying to play movies that I have on my phone. They are in the .MP4 format. I currently have tried Avia, LocalCast and AllCast (though I have not purchased the full version yet). I can start watching a video and it will play great and look great. Inevitably though it will start acting like it is buffering and then it will quite working at all. On top of this, the controls on my phone (HTC One rooted) will disappear. For instance, Avia controls will be in my status bar when I first start the movie but will soon disappear giving me no control over what is playing.
At first I thought it might be Greenify doing something but I don't have them greenified. I have tried a few different things to fix this issue but it just won't go away. Could this be a problem with the Chromecast or my phone or is there just something I am not doing correctly. I don't want to use plex or anything I have to upload and then stream from.
Appreciate the help.
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I have looked around but haven't seen anyone talking about this issue so apologize if I missed something.
I am trying to play movies that I have on my phone. They are in the .MP4 format. I currently have tried Avia, LocalCast and AllCast (though I have not purchased the full version yet). I can start watching a video and it will play great and look great. Inevitably though it will start acting like it is buffering and then it will quite working at all. On top of this, the controls on my phone (HTC One rooted) will disappear. For instance, Avia controls will be in my status bar when I first start the movie but will soon disappear giving me no control over what is playing.
At first I thought it might be Greenify doing something but I don't have them greenified. I have tried a few different things to fix this issue but it just won't go away. Could this be a problem with the Chromecast or my phone or is there just something I am not doing correctly. I don't want to use plex or anything I have to upload and then stream from.
Appreciate the help.
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Almost sounds like your network is encountering a loop, traffic storm, or increasing packet retries.
If your router has an STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) option, try toggling that.
Also try disabling WiFi Sleep in your phone (keeps WiFi connected even when phone goes to sleep).
It could also be his device is running out of steam (overheating and therefore the OS throttles the Clock down especially true when heavy radio use like constant WiFi causes excessive heat in the unit), Starts doing some Background tasks that take priority or is generally going into a lower power state after awhile of no activity.
People need to understand while it may seem convenient to stream files off your phone or tablet they are not built for such activities.
They are meant as media consumers and not much more than that.
Too much going on inside them and Manufacturers put an extreme emphasis on saving power in all of their drivers that makes the devices just not suited to doing a long duration activity without user interaction.
Between the screen going off, WiFi going to sleep, Unit going into deep sleep mode and constant monopolizing of the Network and radios when the Device has a Pull task scheduled like getting Email....It is really not the ideal device to stream media from.
Since most media servers available today support remote (Home Cloud) streaming to a variety of devices and can transcode on the fly there is no longer any reason to store media on your device unless you have no network access at all. And in those cases the CCast won't work anyway because it needs to be able to load the player apps from the internet. Many of those same media servers also support some sort of local sync so you can store and play media locally on that mobile device when network is not available.
We need to start changing the way we think about storing and using media for Mobile...
Thanks for the advice and I will keep exploring. I have WiFi sleep disabled already.
It very well might be the device. I tried using my Touchpad and it didn't seem to run into any problems although I haven't used it enough to be sure it wasn't going to run into the same issues.
What is happening just seems like odd behavior. Like I don't understand why Avia would lose the player controls in my status bar after such a short time.
Maybe I need to think about a media server instead. Though one of the things that made me interested in the Chromecast was the portability of playing movies on large screens.
Again thanks for the response and if anyone else has any idea, I would love to hear it.
you could try y2cast from google play store, it is easy to use.
I'm getting a similar issue when try to cast Pandora. It runs fine on the tablet but won't run on the chromecast, seems like it tries but doesn't make it.
Sup guys. I was wondering if anybody noticed that some of the recent updates changed the Netflix casting in a bad way in my op.
Before I use to be able to press the cast button and choose one of my chromcasts. Then play something. Then I could press the cast button and choose "this device" and play some thing on my phone and it would still play whatever I chose on the Chromecast. If I wanted to change what was playing on the Chromecast I would just press the cast button and change it. Then press the cast button and go back to my phone. Now if I cast something to the chromcast and then switch to my phone it starts playing on my phone and shuts off the Chromecast. This is a step backwards in my op. And I hate it. Now I need a separate device to control each of my two chromecasts. Anybody else notice this and know which version it changed in?
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Did nobody notice this?
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Sup guys. I was wondering if anybody noticed that some of the recent updates changed the Netflix casting in a bad way in my op.
Before I use to be able to press the cast button and choose one of my chromcasts. Then play something. Then I could press the cast button and choose "this device" and play some thing on my phone and it would still play whatever I chose on the Chromecast. If I wanted to change what was playing on the Chromecast I would just press the cast button and change it. Then press the cast button and go back to my phone. Now if I cast something to the chromcast and then switch to my phone it starts playing on my phone and shuts off the Chromecast. This is a step backwards in my op. And I hate it. Now I need a separate device to control each of my two chromecasts. Anybody else notice this and know which version it changed in?
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Sounds like the correct expected behaviour... It was always this way for me... if I say "Play on this device", then I would mean "Play on this device" and not "Play on this device and the Chromecast at the same time"... or do you disagree?
I 2nd that last post. You probably had a buggy version. Or your phone was losing connection with chromecast. You can try killing netflix, turning WiFi off or rebooting your phone.
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Sounds like the correct expected behaviour... It was always this way for me... if I say "Play on this device", then I would mean "Play on this device" and not "Play on this device and the Chromecast at the same time"... or do you disagree?
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No your misunderstanding.
Old app:
Open Netflix
Press cast,choose Chromecast one
Pick something to play for my son on tv1. Good.
Press cast,choose Chromecast 2
Pick something to see play for my wife on tv2. Good
Press cast,choose this device.
Watch something on my phone.
New app
Open Netflix
Press cast,choose Chromecast one
Pick something on tv1.
Good
Press cast, choose Chromecast 2.
Whatever was playing on Chromecast one switches to chromcast 2.
Done
Now u need a device for every Chromecast. No?
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No your misunderstanding.
Old app:
Open Netflix
Press cast,choose Chromecast one
Pick something to play for my son on tv1. Good.
Press cast,choose Chromecast 2
Pick something to see play for my wife on tv2. Good
Press cast,choose this device.
Watch something on my phone.
New app
Open Netflix
Press cast,choose Chromecast one
Pick something on tv1.
Good
Press cast, choose Chromecast 2.
Whatever was playing on Chromecast one switches to chromcast 2.
Done
Now u need a device for every Chromecast. No?
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I understood you in the first time itself... but you should realize that the Netflix app is supposed to double as a Chromecast remote when it is casting... in your scenario you are expecting that the Netflix app should just disconnect itself from the entire process once casting has begun... so that you are free to do other stuff, including sending other casts... you will see the same behaviour with other apps like Youtube too... so it is not like Netflix is doing something different... and yes, it does mean, you need one device per Chromecast, if you want to be using both of them at the same time... I think the intention of this functionality was more like this:
Single guy comes home, fixes a drink and sits on his couch, turns on living room TV, opens the Netflix app on his mobile phone and starts casting Breaking Bad S05E07 to "Living Room TV"
He needs to go badly to the loo after the burrito he had on the way... so he walks towards the WC and on the way opens the Netflix app on his mobile phone and selects to play on "This device"... the show continues where he left from while he happily relieves himself...
Once he is done, he pauses the show on his mobile, cleans up, pulls up his pants, leaves for the bedroom, and switches on the bedroom TV... by this time, the living room TV has powered off because it was idle for so long (always a good idea)... he kicks of his shoes, gets on the bed and opens the Netflix app on his mobile phone and starts casting to "Bedroom TV"... and it all continues like the show never stopped...
Does this scenario explain how the app was supposed to work with multiple Chromecasts?
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I understood you in the first time itself... but you should realize that the Netflix app is supposed to double as a Chromecast remote when it is casting... in your scenario you are expecting that the Netflix app should just disconnect itself from the entire process once casting has begun... so that you are free to do other stuff, including sending other casts... you will see the same behaviour with other apps like Youtube too... so it is not like Netflix is doing something different... and yes, it does mean, you need one device per Chromecast, if you want to be using both of them at the same time... I think the intention of this functionality was more like this:
Single guy comes home, fixes a drink and sits on his couch, turns on living room TV, opens the Netflix app on his mobile phone and starts casting Breaking Bad S05E07 to "Living Room TV"
He needs to go badly to the loo after the burrito he had on the way... so he walks towards the WC and on the way opens the Netflix app on his mobile phone and selects to play on "This device"... the show continues where he left from while he happily relieves himself...
Once he is done, he pauses the show on his mobile, cleans up, pulls up his pants, leaves for the bedroom, and switches on the bedroom TV... by this time, the living room TV has powered off because it was idle for so long (always a good idea)... he kicks of his shoes, gets on the bed and opens the Netflix app on his mobile phone and starts casting to "Bedroom TV"... and it all continues like the show never stopped...
Does this scenario explain how the app was supposed to work with multiple Chromecasts?
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Yes I understand that concept. Which in the old app it wouldn't switch automatically. But I think this is a downgrade and all cast apps should be like this. I mean how bad do you have to watch TV while walking all through your house? Who does that? Lol.
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Old app:
Open Netflix
Press cast,choose Chromecast one
Pick something to play for my son on tv1. Good.
Press cast,choose Chromecast 2
Pick something to see play for my wife on tv2. Good
Press cast,choose this device.
Watch something on my phone.
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In this scenario, what happens if you want to pause, stop, rewind, or seek on tv1? What about tv2? Did your chromecast somehow let you control both of the tvs from one phone once the shows had started?
gianptune said:
In this scenario, what happens if you want to pause, stop, rewind, or seek on tv1? What about tv2? Did your chromecast somehow let you control both of the tvs from one phone once the shows had started?
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Actually the remote functionality should not be required for a stream to continue playing....The two CCasts should continue to play regardless of what the device that started the stream does. (pressing stop being the exception.)
So the way the old app worked was correct.
I would contact Netflix and explain your problem to them....Lots of people have had issues with Netflix recently which says to me they did some major work to the App....Probably due to all their fights with ISPs on Net Neutrality.
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Yes I understand that concept. Which in the old app it wouldn't switch automatically. But I think this is a downgrade and all cast apps should be like this. I mean how bad do you have to watch TV while walking all through your house? Who does that? Lol.
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LOL I resemble that remark.
I can be watching something on the TV in the living room, but then it's bedtime and I take my kiddo into the bedroom and then have to switch the movie over to my phone since my kid wants to watch their bedtime TV. One kiddo is sound asleep, I move the playback to the bedroom TV and continue watching.
Seems there are two models in conflict:
Play on ____
This model is content-centric. You choose content from the client device and choose where to play it.
The content state (playback position) can transfer to whatever device is chosen to play it without needing to remember it somewhere in the cloud or account as it is taken from the current playback device.
This model does not allow a single client device to cast to multiple players from the same app, as connecting to a different player will move the content onto that player.
Connect to ___ / Control ____
This model is player-centric. You choose a player to control from the client device, then you direct it to content.
A single client device can send different content to different players.
Multiple clients can "peek into" and control a specific player.
The second model allows more flexibility but IMO it can also be confusing to the operator since disconnecting from a player doesn't stop the player, when the client device is already playing a title and the player it's trying to connect to is also playing a title, not sure what to do - does the client's title move to the player, or does the client's title get suspended (and remembered somewhere) until disconnected.
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In this scenario, what happens if you want to pause, stop, rewind, or seek on tv1? What about tv2? Did your chromecast somehow let you control both of the tvs from one phone once the shows had started?
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Yes if I was watching on my device and I want to change tv1 or 2 I press pause. Then press cast, select the TV I want and I can change seek stop..whatever I want. Then press cast go back to my device and press play..as it would still be paused.
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Tough call, depends on how you use your devices to know what's going to be most convenient
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Tough call, depends on how you use your devices to know what's going to be most convenient
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Ya. The thing that sucks is they changed it. Would be fine if it only worked one way. Wouldn't know the difference. But its like they took a feature away.
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Looks like they're conforming the behavior across apps so things are easier to explain and support.
I might still be able to achieve your desired behavior if you start a stream then kill the Netflix app and run it again. But once you connect to a device that is already playing you're "attached" to that content again.
I found the old apk if anybody wants to try it
Hi my question is is there a player except localcast which allows me to stream videos on my tv via chromecast but let the audio play from my phone? i searched a lot of websites but could not find anything hope someone can help me here
I could see this being possible by running a UPnP server on the Chromecast and diverting/mirroring the audio through that. I think you'd probably need a rooted Chromecast to do it at this stage though (which I don't have).
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I actually got that to happen accidentally while testing casting from Chrome Beta on the phone. I started a Vimeo video playing on the phone, switched to full screen, clicked the Chromecast icon, the video loaded on the Chromecast and started playing, the phone screen switched to control playing on the Chromecast - but the audio continued on the phone. That didn't happen when I stopped and started again, only the first time.
Hello XDA Community, I just received my Google Chromecast yesterday and so far loving it but i have ran into a very serious and worrying problem...
Anytime i try to Cast Screen/Desktop i never receive Audio in the stream but...the Audio will work fine when streaming a Chrome Tab,
I have tried all workarounds listed via Google and other users via XDA DEVELOPERS but i am truly unable to get it to work with Audio via Cast Screen/Desktop,
I have already tried resetting the device to factory default and rebooting it etc, am truly unsure what else to try
I hope some smart cookie on here who managed to get this to work can lend a hand and share anyway i can get this to work,
Kinda regards
Mark John Halpin
Does Audio work when casting the entire Screen/Desktop to TV?
I am beginning to think Audio doesn't work when casting the entire Screen/Desktop
Can anyone confirm if this is a working feature? I was planning to use VLC and WMP on PC as well as Steam local Music to my TV when in entire screen/desktop mode :/
BUMP???
Anyone able to comment on this for me?
I cannot get audio to work either when casting entire screen guess thats what experimental means. But iff i cast from my phone do get audio and can control it from phone vol keys.
When you do scrren mirroing and u dont get sound but video only that means you have a low connection and your mirroing is weak and close to lose Connection . I had the same problem a millón times until i but a wifi-amplifier and then make my phone/tablet/computer and chromecast connect to the same wifi the amolifier creates by using your house's wifi and i never got the no-sound bug again.
encryptioncsta said:
Hello XDA Community, I just received my Google Chromecast yesterday and so far loving it but i have ran into a very serious and worrying problem...
Anytime i try to Cast Screen/Desktop i never receive Audio in the stream but...the Audio will work fine when streaming a Chrome Tab,
I have tried all workarounds listed via Google and other users via XDA DEVELOPERS but i am truly unable to get it to work with Audio via Cast Screen/Desktop,
I have already tried resetting the device to factory default and rebooting it etc, am truly unsure what else to try
I hope some smart cookie on here who managed to get this to work can lend a hand and share anyway i can get this to work,
Kinda regards
Mark John Halpin
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Check if you are getting any missing audio driver errors in logcat !!
Which phone are u using to cast ur screen ?
tharmor said:
Check if you are getting any missing audio driver errors in logcat !!
Which phone are u using to cast ur screen ?
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I'm using my PC, am using Google Chrome web browser on PC , i do get sound when casting via tab, but not when casting full desktop screen, also my signal is full and casting via mobile works just fine with zero issues and i get audio fine via smartphone just not when casting full screen on PC