Open slumbergod opened 4 years ago
different chromecasts support just x264 or x264 and x265, but i have no known way to query, so i've just been blacklisting devices that can't play x265. what device do you have? does it support 4k?
No, we don't have the 4K version. Our chromecast is a couple of years old. Maybe a solution is to add an option to force re-encoding of all audio and video and make it an option the user can set. These days when I have to manually re-encode a video to work I just choose old formats (like mp3 for audio and one of the web settings in handbrake). Then gnomecast has no problems at all.
Almost everything plays as it should but sometimes I come across a title where there is no audio. Today's viewing is one such example.
From VLC report: Type: Audio Codec: A52 Audio (aka AC3) (a52 ) Channels: 3F2M/LFE Sample rate: 48000 Hz Bits per sample: 32
Is there a way to force the audio to be encoded to mp3 so it plays without problems? Usually, I use handbrake and re-encode video and audio but that is a hassle.
EDIT: after this sound wouldn't play I moved to a different video. It did its transcoding but this time I had sound and no video. It turned out that the file was not x264 as it was labelled but actually x265. So another question: why does an x265 get transcoded to an "acceptable" format for streaming yet still have no video?