#---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Profile for Google Chromecast. # See DefaultRenderer.conf for descriptions of all the available options. # https://www.universalmediaserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1454 # Version 1.3 # # Authors: DeFlanko, digitalhigh, Tripollite, Einzeln # # Known Issues: # - Seeking support is limited. # - This profile will override all generic android devices so it's disabled by default. # Setting LoadingPriority=1 will activate it (see below). # Prerequisites # - FFmpeg needs to be the primary (top) transcoder. # RendererName = Chromecast RendererIcon = chromecast.png # ============================================================================ # This renderer has sent the following string/s: # # User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (CrKey armv7l 1.3.14651) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.0 Safari/537.36, Referer: http://receiver.aviatheapp.com/ # User-Agent: Android/4.2.1 UPnP/1.0 Cling/2.0 # User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/UNAVAILABLE (java 1.4) # ============================================================================ # https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media UserAgentSearch = Android|CrKey # Note: Set loading priority to 1 to activate this configuration and override Android.conf LoadingPriority = 1 SeekByTime = exclusive TranscodeVideo = MPEGTS-H264-AC3 TranscodeAudio = MP3 MaxVideoBitrateMbps = 20 MimeTypesChanges = video/mpeg=video/mp4 CustomFFmpegOptions = -async 1 -fflags +genpts -c:a libmp3lame -ac 2 -b:v 35000k -bufsize 35000k -f matroska # Supported video formats: Supported = f:mp4 v:mp4|h264 a:aac-lc|he-aac|mp3 n:2 m:video/mp4 Supported = f:mkv v:mp4|h264 a:aac-lc|he-aac|mp3|opus|vorbis n:2 m:video/webm # Supported audio formats: Supported = f:flac n:2 m:audio/x-flac s:96000 Supported = f:mp3|mpa n:2 m:audio/mp3 Supported = f:m4a n:2 m:audio/mp4 a:aac-lc|he-aac|mp3 Supported = f:oga n:2 m:audio/ogg a:flac|opus|vorbis Supported = f:wav n:2 m:audio/x-wav a:lpcm Supported = f:weba n:2 m:audio/webm a:opus|vorbis # Supported images formats: Supported = f:bmp m:image/bmp w:1280 h:720 Supported = f:gif m:image/gif w:1280 h:720 Supported = f:jpg m:image/jpeg w:1280 h:720 Supported = f:png m:image/png w:1280 h:720 #Supported = f:webp m:image/webp w:1280 h:720 # Supported subtitles formats: SupportedExternalSubtitlesFormats = WEBVTT # Supported Media Type: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media # All Google Cast devices at a minimum support the following media types: # Video codecs: H.264 High Profile Level 4.1, 4.2 and 5, VP8 # Audio decoding: HE-AAC, AAC-LC, CELT/Opus, MP3, Vorbis # Containers: MP4/CENC, WebM, MPEG-DASH, SmoothStreaming # Level 1 DRM support: Widevine, PlayReady # This is the important part (thanks Einzeln): # (Make audio work) # -c:a = codec in this case we use libmp3lame for MP3 | libvo-aacenc for AAC-LC and -ac is limiting audio channels for casting. # (Prevent stutter due to slow connection) # -b:v and -bufsize should ensure the encoded video does not exceed a bitrate that can fit through a wifi connection. # These sometimes seem to be ignored in the same way MaxVideoBitrateMBPS does. # (output) # -f matroska, I know chromecast doesn't support mkv. But webm is basically a dumbed down mkv so this works. # Using mp4 has given me problems for some reason.