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tried it and expected to see the playercast --name pennyroyal to show up on the list of casting targets in my android phone...

but nope. nothing.

It would be nice if the protocol can be embedded into Kodi via an addon to support libreelec.

This software is exactly what I'm looking for, thanks for your hard work!

I'm having a bit of a hard time getting the Receiver to work however. Once running, I see "Playercast waiting for connnection...." and my sender app is not discovering playercast. I've tried completely turning off my Windows Firewall in case it was a port issue, but it didn't help. Does playercast support the Cast discovery protocol? I would love help figuring this out.

Thank you.

Hey. Stumbled across this awesome project and decided I would give it a go. After getting everything setup in the firewall. I was able to get my laptop to establish a connection to my desktop. By monitoring the processes, I see that it does indeed open up mpv, but not graphically it seems. It just runs in the background. Then it exits far quicker than I expect it to no matter the length or quantity of the files that I try to cast. The only message I see after this happens is that the cast finished. On the server side of things it just goes back to waiting on a connection. Tried restarting the computer just in case the firewall exceptions didn't take effect. That didn't work either.

System Info:
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210121
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.10.7-1-default
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz
Memory: 15.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI Intel® HD Graphics 620

On another note I tried using the --player flag to see if vlc would work. That just triggers this error message instead though "Receiver error: Web server connect timeout."

Most problems on openSUSE and Fedora end up being the firewall, so I wanted to expand on what exactly I did. I've allowed ports 4000, 9880, and 9881 (both udp and tcp) through the firewall. I'm using the precompiled binary for linux. Both vlc and mpv are installed natively and not through snap or flatpak or the likes. I also tried specifying the path of mpv using --cwd flag. That lead to another timeout error. Perhaps I used the flag wrong? Anyway I feel like I'm 99% close to getting thigns working. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I was able to cast a video from my ChromeOS tablet (in which I installed playercast inside the Linux crostini VM, and since it's a VM I needed to also do a port forwarding before casting). But what about casting my chromebook tablet desktop? Is there a way to do that? To what I understand, I am only able to share a video...