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)
Just ran into this at home and it looks like there is an easy (although somewhat annoying fix). Rebooting your computer should put things back into working operation
Restarting chromecast, router and chrome didn't seem to have any effect
@Mr_Pom Absolutely not! We're looking to get started on iOS any day now.
@Andrex101 Hey! This sounds a little like a file that we're having trouble reading. Any chance you could message me the name of the file? (Jason@getvideostream.com)
If that is the case, should be an easy fix on our end!
Hey Everyone, this is definitely an issue right now. It seems like the update happened to either the Chrome extension or Chromecast and it's causing random drops in connectivity to the CC.
What we're seeing in the office is the Chromecasts 'flickering' in the cast extension menu. If you leave the cast extension open for a long time are you all seeing the same thing?
We're working on something right now to hopefully put this issue to bed forever but it's going to be a week+ before it's done
@mourgie said:
I'm using the older version you posted above and it's working way way way better! Only stuttered once or twice and no severe buffering like before. Previously the exact same file was stopping at least once a minute if not every 20 seconds or so. Like all the others said, it was particularly bad with .mp4 files (which had never given me trouble until after the update). Here's the answers to questions you've asked:
- I've adjusted all the way to the lowest setting and still had stuttering.
- No one else is using my network and I only had a few other tabs open in chrome, trying to play an .mp4
- My WiFi signal is very good.
- I am connected via 5Ghz
I wonder too, i get updates constantly without knowing it (in the middle of the night) to the chromecast itself, think one of their updates is interacting badly with your big update?
UPDATE: I fibbed a little in my responses above, I am connected to 2.4ghz, but that's because Chromecast has issues with the 5ghz wireless (i've tried over and over to connect to it but it just wont, so i default to the 2.4). Still, the problem hasn't been with my wireless. It literally had no issues at all until I made the big update.
@mourgie Could you send me an email at jason@getvideostream.com with the name of the file you're trying to play (i'd like to download it on my end so that I can take a closer look at it)?
I really want to fix this on the new version - but need a bit of info to do!
@eyesofnova Thanks for all this, appricaite the detail here :)
nacl64.exe is actually the process for our transcoding engine, so I would expect it to have very high processor usage. I replied to the other thread, if you could try out the old version and let us know if it stutters that would be awesome
my person email is jason@getvideostream.com
@eyesofnova said:
I just saw that one Nova, if you use the old version - does the usage not spike as much? (it should run Nacl64.exe as well)
We've been getting a ton of emails with users saying the app was working before and a couple days after install it breaks and won't load anymore.
If you're seeing:
If you're interested what's happening here: Malwarebytes accidentally flagged a core portion of Google Chrome as a backdoor and removed the file from your computer. A couple days later Malywarebytes realized their mistake and pushed an updated definition (unfortunately at this point the file was already deleted from your computer). There's more information on the malwarebytes site: https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?/topic/163201-google-chrome-nacl64exe-backdoorbot-different-to-other-post/
Hey guys, we're increibly sorry about these issues, we've been back and forth over the code 20+ times and we can't tell what could possibly cause this.
To help figure this out i've spun up and old version of the app (from about 2 weeks before V2) to help figure out what's going on here.
If this version works for you all I ask is that you PLEASE REPLY HERE so that we can dig even deeper and spend more time on figuring out what's happening
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/videodream-stream-meme/ngdapedkmcpanjbncehodepboggbcppj
REMEMBER: Please reply if this works for you