Is it currently usable in anything other than GrayJay? I wish I could use this with local videos.
Someone also made it possible to stream anything that yt-dlp can download https://git.sr.ht/~shironeko/fcast/tree/yt-dlp/item/clients/...
FCast: Casting Made Open Source
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#42How does FCast differ from Matter Casting? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41171060&p=2#41172407 "What Is Matter Casting and How Is It Different From AirPlay or Chromecast?" (2024) https://www.howtogeek.com/what-is-matter-casting-and-how-is-... : > You can also potentially use the new casting standard to control some of your TV’s functions while casting media on it, a task at which both AirPlay and Chromecast ar…
Instead of waiting, hoping that big companies will implement the standard. Just make it as easy as possible to adopt by having receivers for all platforms and making client libraries that can cast to AirPlay, Chromecast, FCast and others seamlessly.
Doest current app support AirPlay and Chromecast as different receivers/backends? Websites doesn't mention anything about it. Is there any plan also for iOS app?
Some feedback: I would also add dedicated buttons for downloading MacOS and Windows binaries - for typical users gitlab button will be to scary. Website also not clear if there is and SDK for developers (the one that supports also airplay and chromecast) and what languages bindings it supports.
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#43FCast engineer here. Look forward to FCast receivers on platforms like AppleTV, Roku, Tizen (Samsung), WebOS (LG).
Are any efforts being made to incorporate this into VLC? Both as a receiver and caster?
Not sure how useful that would be, since VideoLAN supports its own streaming solution https://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am more troubled by how you want to get the Cast button into Netflix, YouTube, etc.
I am not counting on this to happen quickly if at all. Though if FCast is the thing everyone has access to (regardless of Apple TV, Fire TV, Android TV, etc) then maybe eventually it will happen. If you have a raspberry pi, and old computer or an old phone you aren't using, you can easily convert it into a FCast receiver. Doing the same with Chromecast is more tricky since the protocol is more extensive and most clie…
probably worth to consider having official receiver for UmbrelOS [0] and CasaOS [1] in their appstores for increased user adoptions
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UPnP/DLNA seems to be a bit of a disaster protocol wise. As you say the codec support is "eh whatever" which means whether it works or not depends on too many random factors. It's also a massively over-complicated design-by-committee relic. There also isn't a good open source DLNA server (presumably because of the above issues).
That's actually pretty fair. I was ready to jump in and say that miniDLNA is such a server but having looking I see it's actually been unmaintained for 10+ years! It has worked pretty well for me but I think I must have just gotten everything in the right formats years ago so I don't notice the issues I see reported now (I used to just restart it to avoid the notify issues). Presumably you still need some kind of med…
What are you talking about? There's the "Wrap up version 1.3.3." commit from 2023-05-31 (see at https://sourceforge.net/p/minidlna/git/commit_browser).
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's actually pretty fair. I was ready to jump in and say that miniDLNA is such a server but having looking I see it's actually been unmaintained for 10+ years! It has worked pretty well for me but I think I must have just gotten everything in the right formats years ago so I don't notice the issues I see reported now (I used to just restart it to avoid the notify issues). Presumably you still need some kind of med…
What are you talking about? There's the "Wrap up version 1.3.3." commit from 2023-05-31 (see at https://sourceforge.net/p/minidlna/git/commit_browser ).
Oh, that's great, thanks. I didn't realise it changed its name to ReadyMedia.
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#48FCast engineer here. Look forward to FCast receivers on platforms like AppleTV, Roku, Tizen (Samsung), WebOS (LG).
Any road map for Bandcamp and SoundCloud (logged in) support.
Briefly looked at SoundCloud script js, for the moment it seems to be written to pull frontpage with basic API implementation, correct me if I'm wrong.
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#49NymphCast has been around for years but it's still basically unheard of. This has more polished marketing (and a less weird name) but other than that I don't see what makes it any more likely to succeed. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22457351 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27482699
Why not use straight UPnP (DLNA). Tons of open source there. The only problem was standardising codecs (also related to the Chromecast spinoff)
I don't know that you can 'cast' using DLNA. Live streams and such.
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#50FCast engineer here. Look forward to FCast receivers on platforms like AppleTV, Roku, Tizen (Samsung), WebOS (LG).
Thanks for taking this effort, I hope it takes off!