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Check your chromecast settings in VLC, I've seen this happen when I checked the Audio Passthrough option, turning it off and restarting VLC fixed it. It may be a bug in VLC since my receiver does support Dolby and the audio format used in the file I was casting (AAC), sometimes it would work with t...

Installed the latest VLC (via snap) v3.0.7 on Ubuntu 18.04, and I'm getting the exact same problem described here. That is a black screen with the title of file displayed on my Chromecast (Ultra) and nothing else! After a while, the message "Casting this video requires conversion ..." appe...