Repo direct install vs. SNAPed: no rendering to Chromecast

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Repo direct install vs. SNAPed: no rendering to Chromecast

Postby Aqualung » 27 Sep 2022 23:40

I installed VLC directly from the repo:

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sudo apt install vlc
but rendering on Chromecasts is not working. Note that there is no problem discovering the Chromecasts, it's just that clicking on "Playback/Renderer" and choosing a Chromecast from the dropdown list doesn't do anything.

Interestingly, the SNAP-ed version does not suffer from this issue: rendering to Chromecast works just fine ... which makes me think that the version that I installed directly from the repo might be incomplete.

Anyway, what am I doing wrong? (And no, the SNAP-ed version won't do, as that one cannot be tweaked to play BDs. I really do need the repo version.)

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Re: Repo direct install vs. SNAPed: no rendering to Chromecast

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 28 Sep 2022 08:47

This is most probably down to different versions of VLC or one of the involved underlying libraries.

Check versions and VLC logs.
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Re: Repo direct install vs. SNAPed: no rendering to Chromecast

Postby Aqualung » 30 Sep 2022 23:48

Well, I ended up compiling and installing VLC from source code, and that one works fine. There are other issues with the installation/compilation process, but I will open a different thread for that (https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=160849).

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Re: Repo direct install vs. SNAPed: no rendering to Chromecast

Postby Aqualung » 08 Oct 2022 18:07

The mystery has been cleared: the SNAP-ed version of VLC is among the latest (3.0.17.x), which does indeed do broadcasting to Chromecast, while the VLC version that comes via apt is an older one (3.0.16.x), which does not do broadcasting to Chromecast (at least not in my Chromecast environment). Which is why I had to resort to compiling the latest VLC source code on my Ubuntu system.


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