Android Mobile not letting go of chromecast

[ressu 13]

I've had my share of issues with chromecast. The latest updates have brought chromecast support to somewhat tolerable levels. But with lack of subtitle switching support I'm still forced to resort to other means to watch anything that requires subtitles.

 

This means that I quite often switch away from emby to other clients. The Android client appears to be very persistent in keeping chromecast as the selected display. I usually start playback for plex from the workstation, but quite often emby takes over the chromecast from plex because the android client hasn't been killed (or manually switched to local playback).

 

The way this generally works with android client (like youtube etc) is that the client detects that the chromecast has been taken over by another client and it gracefully gives up on access to chromecast. Emby on the other hand interrupts other clients and that way makes it harder to use other chromecast clients.

 

The Android Mobile client is 2.3.80 at the time of writing, but it's not version specific.

[mangis 10]

I've found this too. Even between 2 different Emby for Android clients.

If I start playing something to the Chromecast and then get up to do something else ... or fall asleep and then the wife comes along to play something different she can't do it from her phone and has to hunt around for mine to change what is playing.

[Dysan 2]

To add to the above issues (which i also have) i'll add the problem when pausing the playback through the android device (4.4x & 5.1.1) getting something to drink and waking the mobile after 5 minutes the menu below (pause play) are gone.

Only solution is to close emby, restart the chromecast. (because thats still paused) and pray that the resume function works when restarting the movie.

Also it seems to transcode again very badly or is it just this file:

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : Main@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 4 frames
Format settings, GOP                     : M=1, N=3
Muxing mode                              : Header stripping
Codec ID                                 : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                                 : 2h 22mn
Bit rate                                 : 6 000 Kbps
Width                                    : 1 280 pixels
Height                                   : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 23.976 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.272
Stream size                              : 5.72 GiB (78%)
Writing library                          : x264 core 120
Encoding settings                        : cabac=1 / ref=1 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x111 / me=hex / subme=2 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=1 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=10 / rc=abr / mbtree=1 / bitrate=6000 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=3 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No
Color range                              : Limited
Color primaries                          : BT.709
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.709
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.709

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : DTS
Format/Info                              : Digital Theater Systems
Mode                                     : 16
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Muxing mode                              : Header stripping
Codec ID                                 : A_DTS
Duration                                 : 2h 22mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 509 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 24 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 1.51 GiB (20%)
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : Yes

Edited August 15, 2015 by Dysan