Bug 393234

Thanks for your report.

I am desperately missing time to work on this even if it is a really important feature. Are you able to help ?

I need first to clean my UPnP library such that I can bring back UPnP/DLNA support in Elisa.

How can I help you?

(In reply to nikolaydoe from comment #2)
> How can I help you?

Are you able to help with code ?

I will need some time but if something is available, could you test it ?

(In reply to Matthieu Gallien from comment #3)
> (In reply to nikolaydoe from comment #2)
> > How can I help you?
> 
> Are you able to help with code ?
> 
> I will need some time but if something is available, could you test it ?

May contact you via mail?

(In reply to nikolaydoe from comment #4)
> (In reply to Matthieu Gallien from comment #3)
> > (In reply to nikolaydoe from comment #2)
> > > How can I help you?
> > 
> > Are you able to help with code ?
> > 
> > I will need some time but if something is available, could you test it ?
> 
> May contact you via mail?

I have started working on Chromecast support via libvlc.

Elisa is now able to use libvlc to output sound and this makes it quite easy to add support for Chromecast.

Are you able to test a patch when ready ?

You can contact people working on Elisa via the mailing list hosted by KDE.

(In reply to Matthieu Gallien from comment #5)
> (In reply to nikolaydoe from comment #4)
> > (In reply to Matthieu Gallien from comment #3)
> > > (In reply to nikolaydoe from comment #2)
> > > > How can I help you?
> > > 
> > > Are you able to help with code ?
> > > 
> > > I will need some time but if something is available, could you test it ?
> > 
> > May contact you via mail?
> 
> I have started working on Chromecast support via libvlc.
> 
> Elisa is now able to use libvlc to output sound and this makes it quite easy
> to add support for Chromecast.
> 
> Are you able to test a patch when ready ?
> 
> You can contact people working on Elisa via the mailing list hosted by KDE.

Ok, I've subscribed to mailing list.

I'll try to test your patch asap.

I have found that I had never send the diff for libVLC output to chromecast. Sorry for that.

Here it is https://phabricator.kde.org/D20476 .

Please test as I am unable to send any output to my chromecast with Elisa or plain VLC.

(In reply to Matthieu Gallien from comment #7)
> I have found that I had never send the diff for libVLC output to chromecast.
> Sorry for that.
> 
> Here it is https://phabricator.kde.org/D20476 .
> 
> Please test as I am unable to send any output to my chromecast with Elisa or
> plain VLC.

I've built Elisa with your patch, but I can't understand how to send output to a chromecast device. Should I write code to use it?

(In reply to nikolaydoe from comment #8)
> (In reply to Matthieu Gallien from comment #7)
> > I have found that I had never send the diff for libVLC output to chromecast.
> > Sorry for that.
> > 
> > Here it is https://phabricator.kde.org/D20476 .
> > 
> > Please test as I am unable to send any output to my chromecast with Elisa or
> > plain VLC.
> 
> I've built Elisa with your patch, but I can't understand how to send output
> to a chromecast device. Should I write code to use it?

This support currently require building Elisa with libvlc. It is more work to not use libvlc API.

It should do that automatically. At least for the first detected one.
What is currently missing in this patch is the ability to choose which one (or local play).

Are you able to out put music to a chromecast with vlc music player ? This is the thing I am currently not able to do and this blocks me from finishing this work.

(In reply to Matthieu Gallien from comment #9)
> (In reply to nikolaydoe from comment #8)
> > (In reply to Matthieu Gallien from comment #7)
> > > I have found that I had never send the diff for libVLC output to chromecast.
> > > Sorry for that.
> > > 
> > > Here it is https://phabricator.kde.org/D20476 .
> > > 
> > > Please test as I am unable to send any output to my chromecast with Elisa or
> > > plain VLC.
> > 
> > I've built Elisa with your patch, but I can't understand how to send output
> > to a chromecast device. Should I write code to use it?
> 
> This support currently require building Elisa with libvlc. It is more work
> to not use libvlc API.
> 
> It should do that automatically. At least for the first detected one.
> What is currently missing in this patch is the ability to choose which one
> (or local play).

CMake reported that Elisa is built with libVLC support. Music was played with my default PC-output, not one of the chromecast devices that I have in my local network.

> Are you able to out put music to a chromecast with vlc music player ? This
> is the thing I am currently not able to do and this blocks me from finishing
> this work.

Once I did it using VLC mobile app and it worked. I'll try to test it with desktop version later today.

(In reply to Matthieu Gallien from comment #9)
> (In reply to nikolaydoe from comment #8)
> > (In reply to Matthieu Gallien from comment #7)
> > > I have found that I had never send the diff for libVLC output to chromecast.
> > > Sorry for that.
> > > 
> > > Here it is https://phabricator.kde.org/D20476 .
> > > 
> > > Please test as I am unable to send any output to my chromecast with Elisa or
> > > plain VLC.
> > 
> > I've built Elisa with your patch, but I can't understand how to send output
> > to a chromecast device. Should I write code to use it?
> 
> This support currently require building Elisa with libvlc. It is more work
> to not use libvlc API.
> 
> It should do that automatically. At least for the first detected one.
> What is currently missing in this patch is the ability to choose which one
> (or local play).
> 
> Are you able to out put music to a chromecast with vlc music player ? This
> is the thing I am currently not able to do and this blocks me from finishing
> this work.

Sorry for the delay.

I have finally understood that my firewall was blocking Chromecast feature (as well as UPnP/DLNA).

I will work toward final integration of this feature in the next weeks.