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Jonas Vautherin<p>Would anybody happen to know how to get debug output from a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/chromecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chromecast</span></a> device? I'm trying to cast a video, but it fails for some reason, and I would like to see the error happening on the receiver side.</p><p>I don't think <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Pychromecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pychromecast</span></a> or <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/catt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>catt</span></a> or <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/castr" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>castr</span></a> get debug output from the receiver, do they?</p>
Jonas Vautherin<p>@DarkWraithLord@mastodon.social <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/stremio" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>stremio</span></a> can cast in UI. In CLI I like <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/catt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>catt</span></a>, I used to use <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/mkchromecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mkchromecast</span></a>, I sometimes go from python directly with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/pychromecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pychromecast</span></a>, and recently I've been trying <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/castr" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>castr</span></a>.</p><p>Also from Chromium you can cast, but I use <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>firefox</span></a> , so... :-)</p>
Qyv (;* has moved *;) 🍍<p>In the end I've settled on, slightly larger than standard, yellow subtitles with a darker yellow drop shadow, in a serif font for my viewing pleasure, when a film needs subtitles.</p><p>So that's what <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Gnomecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gnomecast</span></a> now requests of the <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Chromecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chromecast</span></a> via my slightly adapted <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/PyChromecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PyChromecast</span></a> default media controller.</p><p>And I'll stop mucking about with PyChromecast now (;*</p>
Qyv (;* has moved *;) 🍍<p>Ok, so I went back in, and have now further altered the default media controller code (in media.py) in <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Pychromecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pychromecast</span></a> so that I can pass in subtitle formatting from <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Gnomecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gnomecast</span></a> and get PyChromecast to actually pass it along to the <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Chromecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chromecast</span></a> device.</p><p>Not so quick and dirty as the previous bodge, and there's no sanity checking for what you pass in, but since I promise to behave, it'll do.</p>
Qyv (;* has moved *;) 🍍<p>Ok, so that works...</p><p>But it's an annoying bodge, nevertheless, would have been nice if I could just request the <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/PyChromecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PyChromecast</span></a> media controller to style the subtitles from <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Gnomecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gnomecast</span></a> rather than having to subtly alter my version of PyChromecast to get the <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Chromecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chromecast</span></a> to do what I want.</p>
Qyv (;* has moved *;) 🍍<p>Still, it's a 2 hour long film, which I watched last night, so there's plenty of time to see if what I've done works.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Pychromecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pychromecast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Gnomecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gnomecast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Chromecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chromecast</span></a></p>
Qyv (;* has moved *;) 🍍<p>When I say test, I'm currently watching TV, as is 'er indoors, which means I can't currently switch over to the <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Chromecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chromecast</span></a> to see if the film with subtitles, being streamed via <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Gnomecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gnomecast</span></a> has the customised subtitles that I've made <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Pychromecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pychromecast</span></a> use.</p>
Qyv (;* has moved *;) 🍍<p>So, after some digging, the <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Chromecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chromecast</span></a> API does offer the ability, in a limited way, to style subtitles, but <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Pychromecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pychromecast</span></a> doesn't from what I can see, pass this ability on, but it does make use of it internally to set up subtitles to have an outline and background colour. So from <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Gnomecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gnomecast</span></a> (which uses Pychromecast) there's no way to style subtitles.</p><p>So, a workaround, which I'm hoping to test in a virtualenv is to add some extra styling into the media_controller class in Pychromecast.</p>
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