reverse-engineer and support tab/full-screen cast format

[home-assistant-libs]

reverse-engineer and support tab/full-screen cast format

[jaapz]

Do you want to stream a video as in #6, or stream a screencast?

[minektur]

I want to send a series of still images - "screen saver" - kind of like what appletv does with your iphoto library.

I'd also like to be able to send a video stream at the device just lke a browser does when casting a tab, but without the browser dependency.

I'd also like to just be able to launch the default media player giving it a URL (could be custom webserver running on local server etc)

[piedar]

I'm prototyping cast.py in my own branch. It can already handle a couple of your requirements.

# cast a local file
./cast.py media/movie.mp4

# cast multiple local files
./cast.py media/*.webm

# cast a remote file
./cast.py http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4

# cast a directory, pausing for 10 seconds between each file
./cast.py media/slideshow --recursive --wait 10

# cast an unsupported file, transcoding first
ffmpeg -i media/movie.avi /tmp/movie.mp4
./cast.py /tmp/movie.mp4
rm /tmp/movie.mp4

I'm also thinking about writing a Qt remote control application, but I don't know if I'll get that far.

[balloob]

Oh that's cool ! Did you run into any bugs with PyChromecast while playing around with that ?

[piedar]

I saw a few socket errors, but I think the Chromecast wasn't ready yet or I forgot to call cast.quit_app(). If I see any errors that aren't my fault, I'll be sure to save the stack trace.

[piedar]

@balloob Is there a way to poll the youtube controller to see when it's done playing? I'd like to do something like

cast = pychromecast.get_chromecast()
controller = cast.media_controller
yt_controller = pychromecast.controllers.youtube.YouTubeController()
cast.register_handler(yt_controller)

# start casting using either controller or yt_controller

while not controller.is_idle or not yt_controller.is_idle:
    pass

But yt_controller doesn't have an is_idle property.