search

vishen / go-chromecast

cli for Google Chromecast, Home devices and Cast Groups
Apache License 2.0
833 stars 80 forks source link

fails to load file(s) #101

Open vredesbyyrd opened 3 years ago

vredesbyyrd commented 3 years ago

First, thanks for sharing this. go-chromecast appears to be very well done!

I am having trouble getting most (i think) of my local video files to play. Here is the mediainfo output from the tested file, command and debug info...

EDIT: (env info)

General
Complete name                            : /mnt/TARS/Series/Tehran (2020)/S01/S01E01 - Emergency Landing in Tehran.mp4
Format                                   : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : Base Media
Codec ID                                 : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
File size                                : 538 MiB
Duration                                 : 50 min 14 s
Overall bit rate                         : 1 496 kb/s
Movie name                               : Tehran S01E01 720p
Writing application                      : Lavf58.45.100

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : High@L4.1
Format settings                          : CABAC / 10 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames        : 10 frames
Codec ID                                 : avc1
Codec ID/Info                            : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                                 : 50 min 14 s
Bit rate                                 : 1 299 kb/s
Width                                    : 1 280 pixels
Height                                   : 536 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 2.40:1
Frame rate mode                          : Variable
Frame rate                               : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Minimum frame rate                       : 23.564 FPS
Maximum frame rate                       : 24.390 FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.079
Stream size                              : 467 MiB (87%)
Title                                    : LOKiHD@Telly
Writing library                          : x264 core 157 r2969 d4099dd
Encoding settings                        : cabac=1 / ref=10 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.50:0.15 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-1 / threads=17 / lookahead_threads=2 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=8 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=230 / keyint_min=21 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=2pass / mbtree=0 / bitrate=1299 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.59 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=30000 / vbv_bufsize=40000 / nal_hrd=none / filler=0 / ip_ratio=1.30 / pb_ratio=1.20 / aq=2:0.80
Language                                 : Hebrew
Color range                              : Limited
Color primaries                          : BT.709
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.709
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.709
mdhd_Duration                            : 3014427
Codec configuration box                  : avcC

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : AAC LC SBR
Format/Info                              : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity with Spectral Band Replication
Commercial name                          : HE-AAC
Format settings                          : Explicit
Codec ID                                 : mp4a-40-2
Duration                                 : 50 min 14 s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 192 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Channel layout                           : C L R Ls Rs LFE
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 23.438 FPS (2048 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 68.9 MiB (13%)
Language                                 : Hebrew
Default                                  : Yes
Alternate group                          : 1

go-chromecast -v load '/mnt/TARS/Series/Tehran (2020)/S01/S01E01 - Emergency Landing in Tehran.mp4' -u 0f2aadf484fe4437746f3515ea0e2133

INFO[0000] using device name=Living Room TV addr=192.168.1.108 port=8009 uuid=0f2aadf484fe4437746f3515ea0e2133 
DEBU[0000] (1)sender-0 -> receiver-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.connection]: {"type":"CONNECT","requestId":1}  package=cast
DEBU[0000] (2)sender-0 -> receiver-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.receiver]: {"type":"GET_STATUS","requestId":2}  package=cast
DEBU[0000] (2)sender-0 <- receiver-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.receiver]: {"requestId":2,"status":{"applications":[{"appId":"E8C28D3C","displayName":"Backdrop","iconUrl":"","isIdleScreen":true,"launchedFromCloud":false,"namespaces":[{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.debugoverlay"},{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.cac"},{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.sse"},{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.remotecontrol"}],"sessionId":"3734bf5b-c881-4fa8-8922-218d775beabb","statusText":"","transportId":"3734bf5b-c881-4fa8-8922-218d775beabb","universalAppId":"E8C28D3C"}],"userEq":{},"volume":{"controlType":"attenuation","level":1.0,"muted":false,"stepInterval":0.05000000074505806}},"type":"RECEIVER_STATUS"}  package=cast
INFO[0000] local IP address: 192.168.1.106               package=application
INFO[0000] starting streaming server...                  package=application
INFO[0000] trying to find available port to start streaming server on  package=application
INFO[0000] found available port :42679                   package=application
INFO[0000] started streaming server                      package=application
DEBU[0000] (3)sender-0 -> receiver-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.receiver]: {"type":"LAUNCH","requestId":3,"appId":"CC1AD845"}  package=cast
INFO[0000] media server listening on 42679               package=application
DEBU[0000] (-1)* <- receiver-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.receiver]: {"requestId":0,"status":{"userEq":{},"volume":{"controlType":"attenuation","level":1.0,"muted":false,"stepInterval":0.05000000074505806}},"type":"RECEIVER_STATUS"}  package=cast
DEBU[0001] (3)* <- receiver-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.receiver]: {"requestId":3,"status":{"applications":[{"appId":"CC1AD845","displayName":"Default Media Receiver","iconUrl":"","isIdleScreen":false,"launchedFromCloud":false,"namespaces":[{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.cac"},{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.debugoverlay"},{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.broadcast"},{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media"}],"sessionId":"6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b","statusText":"Default Media Receiver","transportId":"6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b","universalAppId":"CC1AD845"}],"userEq":{},"volume":{"controlType":"attenuation","level":1.0,"muted":false,"stepInterval":0.05000000074505806}},"type":"RECEIVER_STATUS"}  package=cast
DEBU[0001] (4)sender-0 -> receiver-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.receiver]: {"type":"GET_STATUS","requestId":4}  package=cast
DEBU[0001] (4)sender-0 <- receiver-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.receiver]: {"requestId":4,"status":{"applications":[{"appId":"CC1AD845","displayName":"Default Media Receiver","iconUrl":"","isIdleScreen":false,"launchedFromCloud":false,"namespaces":[{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.cac"},{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.debugoverlay"},{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.broadcast"},{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media"}],"sessionId":"6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b","statusText":"Default Media Receiver","transportId":"6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b","universalAppId":"CC1AD845"}],"userEq":{},"volume":{"controlType":"attenuation","level":1.0,"muted":false,"stepInterval":0.05000000074505806}},"type":"RECEIVER_STATUS"}  package=cast
DEBU[0001] (5)sender-0 -> 6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.connection]: {"type":"CONNECT","requestId":5}  package=cast
DEBU[0001] (6)sender-0 -> 6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"GET_STATUS","requestId":6}  package=cast
DEBU[0002] (-1)* <- 6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"MEDIA_STATUS","status":[],"requestId":0}  package=cast
DEBU[0002] (6)sender-0 <- 6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"MEDIA_STATUS","status":[],"requestId":6}  package=cast
DEBU[0002] (7)sender-0 -> 6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"LOAD","requestId":7,"media":{"contentId":"http://192.168.1.106:42679?media_file=/mnt/TARS/Series/Tehran (2020)/S01/S01E01 - Emergency Landing in Tehran.mp4\u0026live_streaming=false","contentType":"video/mp4","streamType":"BUFFERED","duration":0,"metadata":{"metadataType":0,"artist":"","title":"","subtitle":"","images":null,"releaseDate":""}},"currentTime":0,"autoplay":true,"queueData":{"startIndex":0},"customData":null}  package=cast
DEBU[0002] (-1)* <- 6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"MEDIA_STATUS","status":[{"mediaSessionId":1,"playbackRate":1,"playerState":"IDLE","currentTime":0,"supportedMediaCommands":274447,"volume":{"level":1,"muted":false},"media":{"contentId":"http://192.168.1.106:42679?media_file=/mnt/TARS/Series/Tehran (2020)/S01/S01E01 - Emergency Landing in Tehran.mp4&live_streaming=false","contentType":"video/mp4","streamType":"BUFFERED","duration":0,"metadata":{"metadataType":0,"artist":"","title":"","subtitle":"","releaseDate":""},"mediaCategory":"VIDEO"},"queueData":{"startIndex":0},"currentItemId":1,"extendedStatus":{"playerState":"LOADING","media":{"contentId":"http://192.168.1.106:42679?media_file=/mnt/TARS/Series/Tehran (2020)/S01/S01E01 - Emergency Landing in Tehran.mp4&live_streaming=false","contentType":"video/mp4","streamType":"BUFFERED","duration":0,"metadata":{"metadataType":0,"artist":"","title":"","subtitle":"","releaseDate":""},"mediaCategory":"VIDEO"},"mediaSessionId":1},"repeatMode":"REPEAT_OFF"}],"requestId":0}  package=cast
INFO[0002] canServe=true, liveStreaming=false, filename=/mnt/TARS/Series/Tehran (2020)/S01/S01E01 - Emergency Landing in Tehran.mp4  package=application
INFO[0002] method=GET, headers=map[Accept:[*/*] Accept-Encoding:[identity;q=1, *;q=0] Accept-Language:[en-US,en;q=0.9] Cast-Device-Capabilities:[{"bluetooth_supported":true,"display_supported":true,"hi_res_audio_supported":false,"remote_control_input_supported":false,"touch_input_supported":false}] Connection:[keep-alive] Range:[bytes=0-] User-Agent:[Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36 CrKey/1.49.230269]], reponse_headers=map[Accept-Ranges:[bytes] Content-Length:[563832431] Content-Range:[bytes 0-563832430/563832431] Content-Type:[video/mp4] Last-Modified:[Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:08:54 GMT]]  package=application
INFO[0002] canServe=true, liveStreaming=false, filename=/mnt/TARS/Series/Tehran (2020)/S01/S01E01 - Emergency Landing in Tehran.mp4  package=application
INFO[0002] method=GET, headers=map[Accept:[*/*] Accept-Encoding:[identity;q=1, *;q=0] Accept-Language:[en-US,en;q=0.9] Cast-Device-Capabilities:[{"bluetooth_supported":true,"display_supported":true,"hi_res_audio_supported":false,"remote_control_input_supported":false,"touch_input_supported":false}] Connection:[keep-alive] Range:[bytes=561643520-] User-Agent:[Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36 CrKey/1.49.230269]], reponse_headers=map[Accept-Ranges:[bytes] Content-Length:[2188911] Content-Range:[bytes 561643520-563832430/563832431] Content-Type:[video/mp4] Last-Modified:[Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:08:54 GMT]]  package=application
DEBU[0003] (-1)* <- 6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"MEDIA_STATUS","status":[{"mediaSessionId":1,"playbackRate":1,"playerState":"BUFFERING","currentTime":0,"supportedMediaCommands":274447,"volume":{"level":1,"muted":false},"currentItemId":1,"repeatMode":"REPEAT_OFF"}],"requestId":0}  package=cast
INFO[0003] canServe=true, liveStreaming=false, filename=/mnt/TARS/Series/Tehran (2020)/S01/S01E01 - Emergency Landing in Tehran.mp4  package=application
DEBU[0003] (7)* <- 6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"MEDIA_STATUS","status":[{"mediaSessionId":1,"playbackRate":1,"playerState":"PLAYING","currentTime":0,"supportedMediaCommands":274447,"volume":{"level":1,"muted":false},"activeTrackIds":[],"media":{"contentId":"http://192.168.1.106:42679?media_file=/mnt/TARS/Series/Tehran (2020)/S01/S01E01 - Emergency Landing in Tehran.mp4&live_streaming=false","contentType":"video/mp4","streamType":"BUFFERED","duration":3014.427,"metadata":{"metadataType":0,"artist":"","title":"","subtitle":"","releaseDate":""},"mediaCategory":"VIDEO","tracks":[{"trackId":1,"type":"VIDEO"}],"breakClips":[],"breaks":[]},"queueData":{"startIndex":0},"currentItemId":1,"items":[{"itemId":1,"media":{"contentId":"http://192.168.1.106:42679?media_file=/mnt/TARS/Series/Tehran (2020)/S01/S01E01 - Emergency Landing in Tehran.mp4&live_streaming=false","contentType":"video/mp4","streamType":"BUFFERED","duration":3014.427,"metadata":{"metadataType":0,"artist":"","title":"","subtitle":"","releaseDate":""},"mediaCategory":"VIDEO"},"autoplay":true,"orderId":0}],"repeatMode":"REPEAT_OFF"}],"requestId":7}  package=cast
DEBU[0003] (-1)* <- 6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"ERROR","detailedErrorCode":104,"itemId":1}  package=cast
DEBU[0003] (-1)* <- 6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"ERROR","detailedErrorCode":104}  package=cast
DEBU[0003] (-1)* <- 6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"MEDIA_STATUS","status":[{"mediaSessionId":1,"playbackRate":1,"playerState":"IDLE","currentTime":0,"supportedMediaCommands":274447,"volume":{"level":1,"muted":false},"currentItemId":1,"idleReason":"ERROR"}],"requestId":0}  package=cast
INFO[0003] method=GET, headers=map[Accept:[*/*] Accept-Encoding:[identity;q=1, *;q=0] Accept-Language:[en-US,en;q=0.9] Cast-Device-Capabilities:[{"bluetooth_supported":true,"display_supported":true,"hi_res_audio_supported":false,"remote_control_input_supported":false,"touch_input_supported":false}] Connection:[keep-alive] Range:[bytes=32768-] User-Agent:[Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36 CrKey/1.49.230269]], reponse_headers=map[Accept-Ranges:[bytes] Content-Length:[563799663] Content-Range:[bytes 32768-563832430/563832431] Content-Type:[video/mp4] Last-Modified:[Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:08:54 GMT]]  package=application
DEBU[0008] (-1)Tr@n$p0rt-0 <- Tr@n$p0rt-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.heartbeat]: {"type":"PING"}  package=cast
DEBU[0008] (-1)Tr@n$p0rt-0 -> Tr@n$p0rt-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.heartbeat]: {"type":"PONG"}  package=cast
DEBU[0013] (-1)Tr@n$p0rt-0 <- Tr@n$p0rt-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.heartbeat]: {"type":"PING"}  package=cast
DEBU[0013] (-1)Tr@n$p0rt-0 -> Tr@n$p0rt-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.heartbeat]: {"type":"PONG"}  package=cast
DEBU[0018] (-1)Tr@n$p0rt-0 <- Tr@n$p0rt-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.heartbeat]: {"type":"PING"}  package=cast
DEBU[0018] (-1)Tr@n$p0rt-0 -> Tr@n$p0rt-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.heartbeat]: {"type":"PONG"}  package=cast
DEBU[0023] (-1)Tr@n$p0rt-0 <- Tr@n$p0rt-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.heartbeat]: {"type":"PING"}  package=cast
DEBU[0023] (-1)Tr@n$p0rt-0 -> Tr@n$p0rt-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.heartbeat]: {"type":"PONG"}  package=cast
DEBU[0028] (-1)Tr@n$p0rt-0 <- Tr@n$p0rt-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.heartbeat]: {"type":"PING"}  package=cast
DEBU[0028] (-1)Tr@n$p0rt-0 -> Tr@n$p0rt-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.heartbeat]: {"type":"PONG"}  package=cast
DEBU[0033] (-1)* <- receiver-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.receiver]: {"requestId":0,"status":{"userEq":{},"volume":{"controlType":"attenuation","level":1.0,"muted":false,"stepInterval":0.05000000074505806}},"type":"RECEIVER_STATUS"}  package=cast
DEBU[0033] (-1)sender-0 <- 6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.connection]: {"type":"CLOSE"}  package=cast
DEBU[0035] (-1)* <- receiver-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.receiver]: {"requestId":0,"status":{"applications":[{"appId":"E8C28D3C","displayName":"Backdrop","iconUrl":"","isIdleScreen":true,"launchedFromCloud":false,"namespaces":[{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.debugoverlay"},{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.cac"},{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.sse"},{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.remotecontrol"}],"sessionId":"a3fdcb61-6c4a-41eb-b5c7-45aa52b1b47f","statusText":"","transportId":"a3fdcb61-6c4a-41eb-b5c7-45aa52b1b47f","universalAppId":"E8C28D3C"}],"userEq":{},"volume":{"controlType":"attenuation","level":1.0,"muted":false,"stepInterval":0.05000000074505806}},"type":"RECEIVER_STATUS"}  package=cast

What jumped out to me from the above log: 


DEBU[0003] (-1)* <- 6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"ERROR","detailedErrorCode":104,"itemId":1}  package=cast
DEBU[0003] (-1)* <- 6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"ERROR","detailedErrorCode":104}  package=cast
DEBU[0003] (-1)* <- 6bb0f1d9-f4d8-4500-8451-ed83e3c5458b [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"MEDIA_STATUS","status":[{"mediaSessionId":1,"playbackRate":1,"playerState":"IDLE","currentTime":0,"supportedMediaCommands":274447,"volume":{"level":1,"muted":false},"currentItemId":1,"idleReason":"ERROR"}],"requestId":0}  package=cast

This is my first time using a chromecast at all. Perhaps of note, currently I play any local video files through a bluray player via usb or budgie/gnomes media server rygel. My bluray player only accepts mp4 files so I 'convert' everything to mp4, or more precisely change the container to mp4 to fool the bluray player into accepting the files, not sure this could be an issue for go-chromecast.

parallel 'ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel panic -i {} -vcodec copy -acodec copy {.}.mp4' ::: "${FILES[@]}"

If you have any ideas on what could be going on here I would love to hear them! Thanks for your time.

vishen commented 3 years ago

Hello! I don't have any initial ideas about why this wouldn't work sorry. Is the media that fails always bluerays with the container changed as mp4, and do any of them work?

Just doing an initial google it looks like those error messages indicate the media isn't supported on the chromecast https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/web_receiver/error_codes.

Does the default ffmpeg built into the chromecast work if you pass in the original blueray media (without being converted to mp4)? By default it uses the following, I haven't tried it out with blueray but it worked with some other media formats: https://github.com/vishen/go-chromecast/blob/master/application/application.go#L1038-L1047

$ go-chromecast -v load <path/to/blueray>
vredesbyyrd commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the link and info.

EDIT: I wrote this before having any tea. I closer look at the supported media types show that the file in my example uses an mp4 non-compliant audio media type, HE-AAC.

https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media#mp4_non-compliant_audio_media_types

EDIT 2: uhg, sorry. I think I misunderstood. mp4 non-compliant audio media type is specific to audio only files i believe. 'HE-AAC` is compliant for audio/video. At least, I can play other video files with that audio type without issue. As i said don't know much about codecs etc.

FINAL EDIT: the files that wont play have had there container changed from mkv -> mp4 but contain audio with more than 2 channels. Which is a no go, as pointed out in application.go ffmpeg function. I converted the test file to ac 2 and it works.

Hello! I don't have any initial ideas about why this wouldn't work sorry. Is the media that fails always bluerays with the container changed as mp4, and do any of them work?

Correct, always files with there container changed to mp4. But some of the changed files work fine and without requiring any transcoding. Looking at the links you sent of acceptable media types and comparing mediainfo output I have not been able to find any discrepancies or what would be causing some files to work while others fail. Although I am nowhere near an expert with this stuff.

But i figured one thing out. If I change the container back to mkv:

ffmpeg -i '/home/clu/Media/Interim/tmp-tv/S01E01 - Emergency Landing in Tehran.mp4' -c:v copy -c:a copy '/home/clu/Media/Interim/tmp-tv/S01E01 - Emergency Landing in Tehran.mkv'

Then load:

go-chromecast load '/home/clu/Media/Interim/tmp-tv/S01E01 - Emergency Landing in Tehran.mkv' -u 0f2aadf484fe4437746f3515ea0e2133

The file successfully plays and I can see that ffmpeg is transcoding ... ps aux | grep ffmpeg

ffmpeg -re -i /home/clu/Media/Interim/tmp-tv/S01E01 - Emergency Landing in Tehran.mkv -vcodec h264 -acodec aac -ac 2 -f mp4 -movflags frag_keyframe+faststart -strict -experimental pipe:1

Now I wonder if there is sane way around this. My original plan when buying a chromecast was to implement it into my "rofi media browser" gui. Its just a simple UI to quickly choose local media to play via mpv. But go-chromecast seems like the perfect tool to optionally send a selection to chromecast.

If there any way to fallback and attempt to transcode if the file fails to play and the container is mp4? Apologies if thats a stupid question.

vredesbyyrd commented 3 years ago

So I wrote a little script to convert any files that are not 2 channel audio, which turns out to be less than 20% of my media. That way, If I am not overlooking anything, all or the vast majority of files wont require any transcoding. Works for me.

I'll close this. Thanks again for the help.

vishen commented 3 years ago

Apologies I couldn't be more help, glad you got it working though!

If there any way to fallback and attempt to transcode if the file fails to play and the container is mp4? Apologies if thats a stupid question.

There currently isn't any way to do this, but we could add a flag to do this fallback if that would be helpful/

vredesbyyrd commented 3 years ago

There currently isn't any way to do this, but we could add a flag to do this fallback if that would be helpful/

I could see that being helpful, but only if its not too much trouble for you to add as a feature. I am choosing to convert everything ahead of time because I much prefer the ability to seek. But it would be nice to have a flag to "fallback and attempt to transcode on failure".

Lastly, I know I am not alone in wrapping mkv in mp4 container. So I would assume at some point other users will run into the same "isssue".

vredesbyyrd commented 3 years ago

Hope I am not being a thorn in your side, but I did run into something else. The following file will not play on go-chromecast but plays without issue with castnow. go-chromecast returns a 104 error.

go-chromecast -v load '/mnt/TARS/Series/Devs (TV Mini-Series 2020)/S01E01 - Episode #1.1.mp4' -u 0f2aadf484fe4437746f3515ea0e2133 

INFO[0000] using device name=Living Room TV addr=192.168.1.108 port=8009 uuid=0f2aadf484fe4437746f3515ea0e2133 
DEBU[0000] (1)sender-0 -> receiver-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.connection]: {"type":"CONNECT","requestId":1}  package=cast
DEBU[0000] (2)sender-0 -> receiver-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.receiver]: {"type":"GET_STATUS","requestId":2}  package=cast
DEBU[0000] (2)sender-0 <- receiver-0 [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.receiver]: {"requestId":2,"status":{"applications":[{"appId":"CC1AD845","displayName":"Default Media Receiver","iconUrl":"","isIdleScreen":false,"launchedFromCloud":false,"namespaces":[{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.cac"},{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.debugoverlay"},{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.broadcast"},{"name":"urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media"}],"sessionId":"997380ae-e5ec-4270-a187-f1fe9fc46dac","statusText":"Default Media Receiver","transportId":"997380ae-e5ec-4270-a187-f1fe9fc46dac","universalAppId":"CC1AD845"}],"userEq":{},"volume":{"controlType":"attenuation","level":1.0,"muted":false,"stepInterval":0.05000000074505806}},"type":"RECEIVER_STATUS"}  package=cast
DEBU[0000] (3)sender-0 -> 997380ae-e5ec-4270-a187-f1fe9fc46dac [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.connection]: {"type":"CONNECT","requestId":3}  package=cast
DEBU[0000] (4)sender-0 -> 997380ae-e5ec-4270-a187-f1fe9fc46dac [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"GET_STATUS","requestId":4}  package=cast
DEBU[0000] (4)sender-0 <- 997380ae-e5ec-4270-a187-f1fe9fc46dac [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"MEDIA_STATUS","status":[],"requestId":4}  package=cast
INFO[0000] local IP address: 192.168.1.113               package=application
INFO[0000] starting streaming server...                  package=application
INFO[0000] trying to find available port to start streaming server on  package=application
INFO[0000] found available port :45037                   package=application
INFO[0000] started streaming server                      package=application
INFO[0000] media server listening on 45037               package=application
DEBU[0000] (5)sender-0 -> 997380ae-e5ec-4270-a187-f1fe9fc46dac [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"LOAD","requestId":5,"media":{"contentId":"http://192.168.1.113:45037?media_file=/mnt/TARS/Series/Devs (TV Mini-Series 2020)/S01E01 - Episode #1.1.mp4\u0026live_streaming=false","contentType":"video/mp4","streamType":"BUFFERED","duration":0,"metadata":{"metadataType":0,"artist":"","title":"","subtitle":"","images":null,"releaseDate":""}},"currentTime":0,"autoplay":true,"queueData":{"startIndex":0},"customData":null}  package=cast
DEBU[0000] (-1)* <- 997380ae-e5ec-4270-a187-f1fe9fc46dac [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"type":"MEDIA_STATUS","status":[{"mediaSessionId":2,"playbackRate":1,"playerState":"IDLE","currentTime":0,"supportedMediaCommands":274447,"volume":{"level":1,"muted":false},"media":{"contentId":"http://192.168.1.113:45037?media_file=/mnt/TARS/Series/Devs (TV Mini-Series 2020)/S01E01 - Episode #1.1.mp4&live_streaming=false","contentType":"video/mp4","streamType":"BUFFERED","duration":0,"metadata":{"metadataType":0,"artist":"","title":"","subtitle":"","releaseDate":""},"mediaCategory":"VIDEO"},"queueData":{"startIndex":0},"currentItemId":1,"extendedStatus":{"playerState":"LOADING","media":{"contentId":"http://192.168.1.113:45037?media_file=/mnt/TARS/Series/Devs (TV Mini-Series 2020)/S01E01 - Episode #1.1.mp4&live_streaming=false","contentType":"video/mp4","streamType":"BUFFERED","duration":0,"metadata":{"metadataType":0,"artist":"","title":"","subtitle":"","releaseDate":""},"mediaCategory":"VIDEO"},"mediaSessionId":2},"repeatMode":"REPEAT_OFF"}],"requestId":0}  package=cast
INFO[0000] canServe=false, liveStreaming=false, filename=/mnt/TARS/Series/Devs (TV Mini-Series 2020)/S01E01 - Episode   package=application
INFO[0000] method=GET, headers=map[Accept:[*/*] Accept-Encoding:[identity;q=1, *;q=0] Accept-Language:[en-US,en;q=0.9] Cast-Device-Capabilities:[{"bluetooth_supported":true,"display_supported":true,"hi_res_audio_supported":false,"remote_control_input_supported":false,"touch_input_supported":false}] Connection:[keep-alive] Range:[bytes=0-] User-Agent:[Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36 CrKey/1.49.230269]], reponse_headers=map[Content-Type:[text/plain; charset=utf-8] X-Content-Type-Options:[nosniff]]  package=application
DEBU[0000] (5)sender-0 <- 997380ae-e5ec-4270-a187-f1fe9fc46dac [urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media]: {"requestId":5,"type":"LOAD_FAILED","detailedErrorCode":104,"itemId":1}  package=cast

Mediainfo:

General
Complete name                            : /mnt/TARS/Series/Devs (TV Mini-Series 2020)/S01E01 - Episode #1.1.mp4
Format                                   : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : Base Media
Codec ID                                 : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
File size                                : 1.40 GiB
Duration                                 : 57 min 20 s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 3 493 kb/s
Writing application                      : Lavf58.45.100

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : High@L4.1
Format settings                          : CABAC / 5 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames        : 5 frames
Codec ID                                 : avc1
Codec ID/Info                            : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                                 : 57 min 20 s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 3 359 kb/s
Maximum bit rate                         : 24.0 Mb/s
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 960 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 2.000
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.076
Stream size                              : 1.35 GiB (96%)
Writing library                          : x264 core 158 r2984
Encoding settings                        : cabac=1 / ref=6 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=30 / lookahead_threads=5 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=1 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=1 / keyint=239 / keyint_min=1 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=3359 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=24000 / vbv_bufsize=24000 / nal_hrd=vbr / filler=0 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Color range                              : Limited
Color primaries                          : BT.709
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.709
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.709
Codec configuration box                  : avcC

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : AAC LC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID                                 : mp4a-40-2
Duration                                 : 57 min 20 s
Duration_LastFrame                       : -5 ms
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 128 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel layout                           : L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 52.6 MiB (4%)
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Alternate group                          : 1
vishen commented 3 years ago

Are you able to provide the command you used for castnow and any debug output it has? I'm not to familiar with how castnow does things, but it sounds like we are passing the file straight to the chromecast to play, but maybe castnow is detecting it isn't a playable file and transcoding it somehow?

vredesbyyrd commented 3 years ago

I initially assumed that castnow must be transcoding, but i cannot find any evidence that it is. And it looks like castnow requires the --tomp4 flag to transcode, ie it wont automatically fallback to transcoding. The debug output is not very verbose, perhaps because nothing is going "wrong".

DEBUG=castnow* castnow --address 192.168.1.108 '/mnt/TARS/Series/Devs (TV Mini-Series 2020)/S01E01 - Episode #1.1.mp4' 


 castnow volume step: 0.05 +0ms
  castnow launching... +1ms
  castnow:stdin [
  castnow:stdin   {
  castnow:stdin     path: '/mnt/TARS/Series/Devs (TV Mini-Series 2020)/S01E01 - Episode #1.1.mp4'
  castnow:stdin   }
  castnow:stdin ] +0ms
  castnow:localfile started webserver on address 192.168.1.120 using port 4100 +13ms
  castnow player status: loading plugins +1ms
  castnow player status: scanning +0ms
  castnow player status: connecting +2ms
  castnow player status: launching +305ms
  castnow player status: loading +2s
  castnow:localfile incoming request serving /mnt/TARS/Series/Devs (TV Mini-Series 2020)/S01E01 - Episode #1.1.mp4 +299ms
  castnow:localfile incoming request serving /mnt/TARS/Series/Devs (TV Mini-Series 2020)/S01E01 - Episode #1.1.mp4 +81ms
  castnow:localfile incoming request serving /mnt/TARS/Series/Devs (TV Mini-Series 2020)/S01E01 - Episode #1.1.mp4 +1s
  castnow player status: ready +486ms
  castnow player status: playing +161ms
  castnow player status: buffering +188ms
  castnow player status: playing +534ms
  castnow player status: playing +1s
  castnow key pressed: s +21s
  castnow player status: idle +140ms
  castnow key pressed: q +3s

I stumbled across another cli-chromecast player, catt (built with https://github.com/home-assistant-libs/pychromecast) and experimented with it a bit. From reading through comments my understanding is its not capable of transcoding, yet it can also play the same file.

catt -d 192.168.1.108 cast '/mnt/TARS/Series/Devs (TV Mini-Series 2020)/S01E01 - Episode #1.1.mp4'

Casting local file /mnt/TARS/Series/Devs (TV Mini-Series 2020)/S01E01 - Episode #1.1.mp4...
Playing "S01E01 - Episode #1.1" on "Living Room TV"...
Serving local file(s).
192.168.1.108 - - [10/Apr/2021 12:44:52] "GET /?loaded_from_catt HTTP/1.1" 206 - video/mp4 - 1.39 GB
192.168.1.108 - - [10/Apr/2021 12:44:52] "GET /?loaded_from_catt HTTP/1.1" 206 - video/mp4 - 1.39 GB
192.168.1.108 - - [10/Apr/2021 12:44:53] "GET /?loaded_from_catt HTTP/1.1" 206 - video/mp4 - 1.39 GB

I wish I had something useful to share with you!