Play a .mp4 File

With Android & Chromecast its possible to play .mp4 files. But if i try to load a mp4 file nothing happens.

client.Connected += async delegate { await client.LaunchApplication("B3419EF5"); }; client.ApplicationStarted += async delegate { await client.LoadMedia("http://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4"); }; client.ConnectChromecast(new Uri(selectedChromecast.Tag.ToString()));

I still just see “SharpCaster demo receiver” 😕

I hope you can help me.

Dear Lukas

[Tapanila]

The current implementation is expecting the mime type of the stream to be different then MP4. I will add a parameter to LoadMedia where you can specify on next version. It might take a while.

If you want to get started right now then instead of client.LoadMedia… You can add following

var startedApplication = client.ChromecastStatus?.Applications?.FirstOrDefault(x => x.AppId == applicationId);
var currentApplicationTransportId = startedApplication.TransportId;
var currentApplicationSessionId = startedApplication.SessionId;

var mediaChannel = client.Channels.First(i => i.Namespace == "urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media");
var mediaObject = new MediaData("http://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4", "video/mp4", null, "BUFFERED", 0D, null);
var req = new LoadRequest(currentApplicationSessionId, mediaObject, true, 0.0, null);

var reqJson = req.ToJson();
await mediaChannel.Write(MessageFactory.Load(currentApplicationTransportId, reqJson));

[Tapanila]

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