Chromecast functionality lost on v4 update

[nachocifu]

Operating System Version: OS X

Popcorn Time Version: V4

Download date: Long time ago

Expected Behaviour

When playing something, should have option to cast content to chrome cast.

Actual Behaviour

Chromecast devices are not listed anymore.

[team-pct]

Get us more logs as we cannot reproduce
Chromecast is working fine

[aryaroudi]

The AirPlay also has gone and in addition, the cover of the movie is not loading in macosx

[nachocifu]

also happening the covers error mentioned by @aryaroudi (I thought it was only a local caching problem or something)

@team-pct where/how to print logs?

[nachocifu]

the covers error has an issue already #1189

[Persei08]

chromecast well detected too.

@nachocifu see here: http://docs.nwjs.io/en/latest/For%20Users/Debugging%20with%20DevTools/
Open the developer tools and switch to "console" tab

[nachocifu]

@Persei08 on Mac?
Im attaching screenshot. DevTools with no activity. PopCornTime not showing chrome cast option and VLC showing the chrome cast option (and current alternative to cast video)

[Persei08]

I'm on linux but it should also work on mac too.

There is something wrong here with the developer tools window. It says (in title bar) "chrome-search://local-ntp/local-ntp.html" which is a new tab in chrome. Are you sure you opened the developer tools from PT window ?

[gabrielgradinaru]

I'm also having issues with chromecast. In my case, the chromecast device is detected but I get an error when streaming to it.

I've uploaded the logs here: https://gist.github.com/gabrielgradinaru/055d3e11607d6586ade401c0c6057e91

Let me know if I can provide any other info.

[team-pct]

Try to disable ipv6

[gabrielgradinaru]

Ok, I've disabled IPv6 and my other network adapters and the error is gone.
However, it seems like the playback is stopped immediately:

....
app.js 17 [INFO] 27 subtitles found
app.js:17 [INFO] Loading torrent: playingExternally
app.js:17 [INFO] Device IP: d14c04a5-2f93-df95-65bd-c21ac6000132.local
app.js:17 [INFO] Available IPs: ["192.168.1.102"]
app.js:17 [INFO] 192.168.1.102 picked for external playback
app.js:17 [INFO] Chromecast: play http://192.168.1.102:57654/0 on 'Living Room TV'
app.js:17 [INFO] Chromecast: connecting to d14c04a5-2f93-df95-65bd-c21ac6000132.local
app.js:17 [INFO] Playing http://192.168.1.102:57654/0 on Living Room TV
app.js:17 [INFO] Stopping external device
app.js:17 [INFO] Closing Chromecast Casting
app.js:17 [INFO] Streaming cancelled
app.js:17 [INFO] Closing loading view
app.js:17 [INFO] Streaming cancelled
app.js:17 [INFO] Chromecast: stopped. Listeners removed!

It looks like my chromecast v3 does not support 1080p movies. But instead it works using 720p.

[gabrielgradinaru]

So far I've found 2 issues related to chromecast:

1. Incorrect IP address found for chromecast.

app.js:17 [INFO] Device IP: d14c04a5-2f93-df95-65bd-c21ac6000132.local
app.js:17 [INFO] Available IPs: ["fe80::a16f:542:77e3:8654","192.168.14.49","fe80::5451:ffa2:4d2d:b64f","192.168.1.102","fe80::f130:a191:2706:9024","169.254.144.36"]
app.js:17 [INFO] fe80::a16f:542:77e3:8654 picked for external playback

This is a bug in the chromecasts library: mafintosh/chromecasts#32
This causes popcorn-time to pick an incorrect IP address for playback (an IPV6 address in my case).

Unfortunately the chromecasts lib looks like it is not maintainted anymore.
I guess a better option is to use another similar library.

As a workaround, disabling other network interfaces/adapters should do it.

2. 1080p movies fail to cast.
   The actual issue seems to be the 6 channel audio of the mp4 files. Looks like a chromecast issue.

[team-pct]

https://ci.popcorntime.sh/job/Popcorn-Time-Desktop/417/

[gabrielgradinaru]

Very fast implementation. Kudos @team-pct.

[Blajpaj]

I am running Ubuntu 19.10. Since the 417-build I have lost the ability to cast to Chromecast. (Device does not show up at all.)

By reverting to 416, I am able to cast again. Although it has to be in 720p or less.