To everyone who just encountered the Brainfreeze issue on Chromecast, we've just fixed it. There was an old certificate sitting on the Chromecast TV app that we forgot to replace with the rest of them this week
If you're still seeing the error, try unplugging your Chromecast for a couple seconds and plugging it back in to clear that cache - a big sorry for the inconvenience!
@Miss-Shane said:
I've resetted my Chromecast. Will monitor. Glad to know there are others Also having this issue. Why does my Video suddenly Drop outs & Quits from Video Stream App while it's playing on my Android Phone used as as Remote Control? Then I have to CLick on my TV Show & Cast to Chromecast on my TV all over again which is quite annoying. Is this Normal or a Glitch that can be fixed? My router is new & my HIghspeed is 25Mbps pkg. No popcorn microwaves running. Good thing is that it resumes from the part it stopped playing at. WIll try to send logs over may help. Let me know? Tks
@Miss-Shane About 3 month ago we should have fixed this. If you're still seeing this something new must be going on - any chance you could send Graham an email (he'll know more about this then me) at graham@getvideostream.com and we'll figure out what's going on here!
@bogdann05 said:
Is it possible to introduce digital surround sound to videostream? Is that possible without a major update from chromecast?
Funny enough we actually used to have surround sound in the app, and then an update from Google broke it and we had to remove it.
Good news is that they're going to be fixing it by early Sept so it'll be coming back - hang tight!
Talked to Issac over email - just replying here saying that finer volume control is scheduled for the next feature blitz we do :)
Volume normalization is a little trickier but is something we want to do down the line :)
@Gandalforce said:
No matter how many times I run the firewall troubleshooter, I still cant stream my movies. I looked at the firewall settings and the port numbers, everything looked fine. The troubleshooter only runs halfway, if I close Chrome completely then it magically "works".
Hey Everyone, we're looking into this. There seems to be a problem in this build of windows 10 where our settings aren't be listened to by the operating system. We're going to get on this build today and try to see what's happening.
For the time being i'd suggest trying to manually add port 5556 and 5558 TCP, inbound rules to the firewall and see if that works. If it doesn't then downgrading might be the only option :(
This issue only seems to be effecting the beta builds, the windows 10 release should be ok :)
Hey All!
We've talked with the Chrome team and once 44 goes into production (out of beta) this functionality won't be hidden behind a flag - it'll be there for everyone to use!
We added a bunch of warning messages to the current app to make it so users knew that it didn't work. Right now we're just in the process of stripping all of those out.
Chromebooks for Intel should be very easy to support, so expect to see something in the next 3 weeks or so
Chromebook's running ARM might be a little trickier and in many cases won't be able to do a full video transcode (just because they aren't powerful enough) but we do plan on adding support here (and perhaps warning messages on the files that won't work). Still trying to figure ARM out
Hang in there guys, should be out soon!
Hey! This is planned in the future!
Hey! Sorry but yeah this is intended functionality we've just recently added a 20minute timeout on the Chromecast. We had a couple users who left it paused and it actually burned the video into the TV :(
Just curious, what's the case that you want to leave the picture up for 20+ min?
Hey Bang!
On the android app, we were doing a staged rollout so not all of you guys had the new android app for a couple days! We just rolled out it out to 100% so if you reboot your phone and check for updates, you should get the newest version!
On the IP tables, you should be able to set that command to run every time on boot, which distro of Linux are you running?
To stream photos: just open up the app on desktop app, click the big blue button in the centre, then click the chromecast you want them to stream to and you'll be good to go!
Note: You'll need a chromecast on the same wifi network and the cast extension installed to do all of this :) (If you don't have the cast extension, our app should guide you through the whole process)