Would anybody happen to know how to get debug output from a #chromecast device? I'm trying to cast a video, but it fails for some reason, and I would like to see the error happening on the receiver side.

I don't think #Pychromecast or #catt or #castr get debug output from the receiver, do they?

@DarkWraithLord #stremio can cast in UI. In CLI I like #catt, I used to use #mkchromecast, I sometimes go from python directly with #pychromecast, and recently I've been trying #castr.

Also from Chromium you can cast, but I use #firefox , so... :-)

In the end I've settled on, slightly larger than standard, yellow subtitles with a darker yellow drop shadow, in a serif font for my viewing pleasure, when a film needs subtitles.

So that's what #Gnomecast now requests of the #Chromecast via my slightly adapted #PyChromecast default media controller.

And I'll stop mucking about with PyChromecast now (;*

Ok, so I went back in, and have now further altered the default media controller code (in media.py) in #Pychromecast so that I can pass in subtitle formatting from #Gnomecast and get PyChromecast to actually pass it along to the #Chromecast device.

Not so quick and dirty as the previous bodge, and there's no sanity checking for what you pass in, but since I promise to behave, it'll do.

Ok, so that works...

But it's an annoying bodge, nevertheless, would have been nice if I could just request the #PyChromecast media controller to style the subtitles from #Gnomecast rather than having to subtly alter my version of PyChromecast to get the #Chromecast to do what I want.

Still, it's a 2 hour long film, which I watched last night, so there's plenty of time to see if what I've done works.

#Pychromecast #Gnomecast #Chromecast

When I say test, I'm currently watching TV, as is 'er indoors, which means I can't currently switch over to the #Chromecast to see if the film with subtitles, being streamed via #Gnomecast has the customised subtitles that I've made #Pychromecast use.

So, after some digging, the #Chromecast API does offer the ability, in a limited way, to style subtitles, but #Pychromecast doesn't from what I can see, pass this ability on, but it does make use of it internally to set up subtitles to have an outline and background colour. So from #Gnomecast (which uses Pychromecast) there's no way to style subtitles.

So, a workaround, which I'm hoping to test in a virtualenv is to add some extra styling into the media_controller class in Pychromecast.