• @TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    3591 year ago

    If it makes you feel any better, I decided earlier today to experiment with “castnow”, a command-line program for casting to a Chromecast device.

    I grabbed the url of a video off of Archive.org, used wget on a box I was ssh’d into to download the video, and then ran my “castnow” command to cast it to the Chromecast.

    I got a progress bar and current/total time on the TV, but aside from that only a black screen and no audio.

    I tried getting the latest version of “castnow” from the Git repo. I tried transcoding 7 different ways with FFMPEG. A bunch of things.

    Finally, copied the video to my local machine and ran it in mpv.

    The video itself was solid black with no audio and the Archive.org page had comments on it saying “why is there no video or audio?”

    I tried a different video and it worked fine.