Andro AbhiBig Red Button Puts Toddler in Command of Chromecast
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@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... :-)
Qyv (;* has moved *;) 🍍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.
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.