Show HN: Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcoding and subtitles

Re:Show HN: Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcod... by keredson on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:30PM (#16389447)

yeah, but they don't support subtitles as far as i can tell. my frustration w/ VLC's casting is what drove me to write this.

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Re:Show HN: Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcod... by Fnoord on Friday February 16, 2018 @06:53AM (#16391681)

You wrote on your product page:

"Chromecast only supports a handful of subtitle formats, .srt not included. But it does support WebVTT. So we extract whatever subtitles are in your video, convert them to WebVTT, and then reattach them to the video through Chomecast's API."

Did you attempt to get this ported to VLC?

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Re:Show HN: Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcod... by keredson on Friday February 16, 2018 @06:22PM (#16397501)

I did not. But nor did I write the conversation code. That was an existing python lib.

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Re:Show HN: Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcod... by stryk on Friday February 16, 2018 @12:27AM (#16390089)

Is there something amiss with VLC's Chromecast abilities? I haven't had a chance to test it out yet, but was really happy to see it in the changelog

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Re:Show HN: Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcod... by BugsJustFindMe on Friday February 16, 2018 @11:27AM (#16393450)

The new VLC never finds my chromecast, and this does right away. Apparently a lot of people are having nonspecific trouble with the new VLC feature.

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Re:Show HN: Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcod... by thresh on Friday February 16, 2018 @06:17AM (#16391557)

Yeah, there is no subtitles support for now. It will be supported in the next release.

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