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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by akvadrako on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:54AM (#25999917)
It wouldn't be that hard to make an open casting protocol.
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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by saagarjha on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:57AM (#25999930)
It wouldn't, but people want to cast to devices they already have. Getting manufacturers (and other software makers) on board is not easy…
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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by akvadrako on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:11AM (#26000030)
Personally I would buy any device that offered a working casting solution for VLC.
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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by hunter2_ on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @09:18AM (#26001184)
I haven't tried Windows or Linux versions of VLC in a long time, but the "Renderer" option in macOS VLC seems to work well.

Unrelated: Have you tried catt? https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt

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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by akvadrako on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @09:38AM (#26001411)
I have tried the renderer - it's buggy and doesn't support embedded subtitles which I almost always use.

Same thing with catt, which also suffers from having a poor UI.

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