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Chromecast Web Sender SDK implementation for Firefox
https://hensm.github.io/fx_cast/
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Can't cast YouTube Music? #185

Closed NullVoxPopuli closed 2 years ago

NullVoxPopuli commented 3 years ago

OS version: Windows 10 Browser version: Firefox Developer Edition: 90.0b9 Extension version: 0.1.2 Bridge version:: 0.1.0

Description image

I cannot cast the tab

Steps to reproduce

  1. install everything
  2. visit YT Music
  3. try casting

Expected behaviour it works?.

Logs n/a?

NullVoxPopuli commented 3 years ago

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NullVoxPopuli commented 3 years ago

just found image

NullVoxPopuli commented 3 years ago

so, I've enabled that now, but the cast dialog has not changed

NullVoxPopuli commented 3 years ago

Oh, I added this and the Tab option appeared: image

NullVoxPopuli commented 3 years ago

but the audio doesn't cast 🤔

NullVoxPopuli commented 3 years ago

maybe related to? https://github.com/hensm/fx_cast/issues/128

hensm commented 3 years ago

I haven't really tested it, but supposedly YouTube Music doesn't work right now. Otherwise, the tab casting has no audio due to API limitations.

YouTube Music compat issue: hensm/fx_cast-compat#2

Tschrock commented 2 years ago

I've been able to successfully cast YouTube Music on Ubuntu after adding https://music.youtube.com/* to the User Agent Whitelist in the extension preferences. This is using the cast button that appears in the top right corner of the website.

OS version: Ubuntu 21.10 Browser version: Firefox 97.0 (Installed as a deb, not a snap) Extension version: 0.1.2 Bridge version: 0.1.0

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TheW0LVERIN3 commented 1 year ago

On the latest fx_cast version(extension: 0.3.1 bridge: 0.3.0) youtube music doesn't work. I tested it using an android tv device with chromecast built-in running android 9 and the latest version of the chromecast built-in app(1.61.329909) as it's up to date on the play store. Interestingly though I did get the error: Unknown Chromecast built-in | Unknown

hensm commented 1 year ago

Yep, broken for me too. Testing on a 3rd-gen chromecast, seems like the receiver app is crashing on startup for some reason. I'll try to take a better look at this tomorrow or next weekend. I'll open a new issue for it, since it's not related to this one.

hensm commented 1 year ago

@TheW0LVERIN3 So, it's a bit of a weird one. YouTube Music does work with fx_cast, but you have to be casting the song, rather than the video. If you try to cast the video, it'll try to use Chrome's tab mirroring functionality to cast the tab (with the audio).

Screenshot ![src](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6956633/218264482-23d2cbc3-8daa-43cb-b604-42a10254b830.png)

Since fx_cast doesn't handle that properly, it tries to launch the Chrome Mirroring app which then times out and returns to the home screen (or the indicator app launch appears/disappears on Google TV). It should probably handle this by using its own mirroring, but Firefox doesn't provide audio with the display stream so it would be kinda useless in this case anyway.

I assume the song mode requires a premium subscription since it wasn't there before I signed up for the trial.

If it still doesn't work for you, you may have a completely different issue specific to the Chromecast built-in app, which I'm not able to test. I'd suggest you test with desktop Chrome to confirm it's related to fx_cast.

TheW0LVERIN3 commented 1 year ago

@hensm So I guess I need youtube music premium to cast from firefox. That is unless firefox finally gets to supporting the audio tab sharing thing. Youtube music seems to have a bunch of these stupid bugs/bad design decisions. Thanks anyways for looking into it. Oh, and I tested with edge and it indeed does just cast the tab with audio instead of the chromecast "app". The stupid thing is that it works like it should with the youtube music android app.