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HI, would Chromecast support be available in the Future? That would be really great...

The iphone app seems to be missing a setting to set the bitrate for chromecast. I was at family house for the holidays and streaming but it was stuck at the default 6mb which doesn't work remotely. I did manage to get it working with an android tablet that had the setting but this should be added to the Iphone app.

Pulling from a windows server, I can play on a Nexus 5 with subtitles (SRT), via selecting "Audio and Subtitle Settings" from the movie details page on the Android app. But if I chose to use MB connect to chromecast, chromecast doesn't show the subtitles. If I cast the Android screen, with subtitles, via the chromecast (not MB) app, I get the subtitles (to be expected, since I am casting a screen with subtitles). I understand that the chromecast MB client can only do WebVTT subs, according to: http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/blog/1/entry-99-introducing-the-new-chromecast-for-media-browser/ So I converted the subtitles to WebVTT, and placed it in the same folder as the movie file, with the same file name (different extension of course). My problems: A) Only the SRT sub shows up as an option in MB. I already hit "rescan library" on the server. Bottom line: I cannot watch with WebVTT subs on the chromecast. All versions of MB are up to date. Thank you

I am trying to use the chrome cast while at a different house than my server. It works fine from the iOS app except it seems to be an extremely high bitrate (6mb?) Which my upload cannot sustain (5mb). The iPhone I am casting from is set at 650k and I have tried changing it but it does not seem to take the bit rate change. Is there a way to change the bit rate from the mediabroswer app? I also tested from my android tablet and it does the same thing.

I am running MB server 3.0.5424.1 on a Gateway DX4840 and am running media browser 1.1.3 on my IPAD 2. The app connects to the server just fine. The problem is when I cast the movie to my TV utilizing Chromecast. It started fine, but within 20 minutes or so, the movie just stopped and returned to the start screen. I returned to the point where it left off and started playing again, but shortly thereafter, it happened (and continued to happen) again. It didn't seem to correspond to the IPAD sleeping, but if I kept toggling the "clients" menu on and off, it seems to keep it from stopping. Any ideas?

Hello This is my first post so apologies if its in the wrong area Media Server Version 3.0.5395.0 Chrome - Chrome 37.0.2062.124 3.0.5395.0 I'm very new to Media Browser although I have used Plex. I do prefer MB however I have a problem in that I cannot for the life of me get Media Browser web player to cast via Chrome cast. Never been an issue casting anything from my PC (windows 7) in the past I can cast from apps on my IOS devices ( Ipad , Iphone) but my PC will not have it ! I've tried reducing the quality of the cast etc etc ... no idea what I'm doing wrong!

I can cast mp4 from my PC to the TV. However, mkv does not. Is it possible to cast mkv? Thanks.

I have tested Chromecast 2.0 for a while now and it works great as long as the video is transcoded. If i choose higher bitrate then the video is I can see in the logs that it uses streamcopy for the video and transcode the audio. When the video is streamcopyed playback almost always stops after 1-2 minutes. Sometimes it will play longer but I have never managed to play a video that is streamcopyed all the way through without stopping. When it stops the only way to start it again is rewind or fast forward. Clicking pause and play again does nothing. If I rewind it will sometime stop again at the same place but other times it will play a few more minutes and then stop again. When i fast forward it will also play a few minutes and then stop. I have no issues playing transcoded files at 10mbit/s on the chromecast but playing a 5mbit/s file that is streamcopyed will stop every time. I have also played files with as low as 3mbit bitrate that also stops. Streamcopy: stops at 1:17, tried rewinding stops again at 1:16. fast forward, stops again at around 5:40 transcode-4adcad53-1091-46e7-b8f3-ebf0a2cbf8fb.txt Transcoded: plays with no issues transcode-482fdc14-df02-4f20-b375-a5a3cdeab02b.txt Transcoded live TV HD channel 10mbit/s plays with no issues transcode-56eb2f3f-2a48-4013-8d73-61e2602c02ca.txt Server log server-63547710391.zip While testing this I also discovered that if I click stop when streaming to the chromecast it will not save a resume point. Any idea what the issue is?

First, I would like to say hi to everyone. I'm currently an old plex user and I'm proud to move to MB3. Don't get me wrong Plex is a nice software but so many feature are lock and it's getting worst with their upcoming price increase policy. I was really surprise to see many feature from MB3 that you had to be a premium feature with Plex. I prefer and I will support MB3 After playing with MB3 over the weekend I also had the chance to try the Android client and I only have one question. I noticed that the quality setting for Chromecast is limited to 6Mbps ? I know chromecast can do more than that and I was wondering if in the upcoming new android client the profile will have higher bitrate ? The reason why i'm asking is because when I cast high bitrate movie with fast scene, 6Mbps is not enough so the image is very pixelated even if my LAN/WIFI profile is up to 21Mbps. I didn't have that with plex and chromecast (only good thing lol) and i'm sure you guys are either working, aware of it or any tips ? Thank you

Hi All, I have purchased the chromecast dongle and have set it up correctly. the media centre is downstairs and i have the chromecast dongle in the TV upstairs on the TV screen upstairs it say's choose media from mediabrowser to play here" But when I choose the movie to stream it just has a blue circle continually spinning. Do I need to set up anything on the server or what do I need to do to get this working correctly?? I'm using a android tablet and from the Mediabrowser app for android. Any help would be greatly appreciated

I have been using the media browser app (1.1.3) for awhile now both by itself and streaming to my TV via Chromecast. I haven't had any problems with playback on my iPad air itself, but recently I have been having many issues with streaming to Chromecast. Typically, I would have Chromecast started and waiting, open the app, connect to Chromecast, hit the refresh button on the app which changes the TV to media browser, and select content to play. This has, in the past few weeks, worked flawlessly. In the past week or so, the content will play for a few minutes and stop, or not play at all. I then proceed to disconnect, restart Chromecast, restart my iPad, restart the app, restart the server, and even restart my wifi in my attempt to fix the problem. It then might work for one episode of a show, but then not work for the next episode. Last night a stream to Chromecast froze as I described above, but instead of trying to troubleshoot it I just tried playing back on the app itself without even restarting anything. It worked flawlessly, leading me to believe the issue is not with the server, or my network, but with the app streaming to Chromecast. Please let me know how I can help resolve what I believe is a bug. If you tell me how, I can send whatever logs the server generates, or I can post a video of the issue so you can see exactly what my workflow is.

Just thought I would let everyone know if you haven't jumped on this software yet its going for $69 right now for PlayOn and PlayLater lifetime license and you get a free Chromecast. You can also pay an additional $15 for the HD upgrade for both products. Pretty hard to beat that when they are throwing in a Chromecast. Thanks for the PlayOn Plugin for Media Browser! @snazzy2000 http://www.playon.tv/store/buy/

I recieved my chromecast yesterday and have it working with Netflix, seems like a great device. I then tried to cast to it from Media Browser web ui but it does not appear in the list (other devices such as Sonos show up). Is there a specific version that the functionality is in? I'm currently running 3.0.5347.22095. I also bought the IOS app for iPad and the chromecast does appear in the list, when clicking on it the screen changes and says that it is ready but when pressing play on a movie or tv show the waiting/progress icon appears and it never gets any further than that. Am i running the right versions? or is there some diagnostics i can grab? (as a side note, it would be nice if we could hide devices, as for example i don't really want to see or use my sonos devices with media browser). Thanks

I wiped my Galaxy S4 and installed android 4.4.2 (rooted phone), and then I restored MediaBrowser from backup using Titanium Backup. I've since tried chromecasting without success. It may have been a problem before upgrading my phone though - it's been a while since I've tried chromecasting. What happens is I can connect to the chromecast just fine. When I play something though, it just plays on my phone. But what's interesting is after connecting if I change screens on my phone (move to a different tv show, different episode, etc), the play options disappear (no play button, no shuffle button). If I disconnect and change screens, I get the play options back. Youtube casts just fine. Any idea what the problem is?

Hey guys, I am experiencing an odd issue on my Windows 7 Home Premium server I was streaming some movies and things to my chromecast VIA the android app the other day, everything was fine. All of a sudden the media would pause on its own and sit for like a minute then it would play for a minute then pause again. I thought this was odd so I remote into my machine to see what was what, and found that ffmpeg has my cpu maxed out. I restarted my machine and it cleared up the issue, for a while. Now this happens at least once a day. Its quite an annoyance. Any clue on what I can do to clear this up? Thanks!! John

Hi everyone, I'm setting up MB to be accessible over the WAN, and it works well for everything except Chromecast. Everything functions on the LAN, both from Android clients and casting to Chromecast. In MB Server, I use UPnP to open the ports, and the router shows 8096 and 8945 forwarded properly. The Android client connects and plays video from remote locations, so this seems to confirm the ports are open. But, when I am remote and try casting to a Chromecast, the video does not play. The app triggers the Chromecast to start the receiver app, which shows the MB logo on the TV. Hitting play, however, causes the Chromecast to just show a spinning circle, and the Android client doesn't show that the video time is advancing. FWIW, I removed AdBlock from the phone, as I've seen it cause similar playback issues casting from other apps (e.g. Hulu). My first guess is that I need to forward additional ports, but I didn't see anything in the tutorials. Unfortunately, I don't have easy access to firewall logs to see if whether inbound requests are being rejected. I'm using an IP address, not DDNS. Any advice is welcome, thanks.

I have been trying to get media browser to stream to my chromecast. It connects to the chromecast but when i start a movie it does not stream. I had it working before i updated to the beta version. I could not find the posting that help me the last time so I was hoping for some help. Thank you.

Hey there! So I recently discovered Media Browser for Chromecast. Now while this is great, I did my research and found that I would be able to stream media, from my computer, using Media Browser server, to Chromecast, via Chrome.... Sadly, I haven't been able to find out exactly HOW! How do I go about streaming to chromecast from chrome using Media Browser? as you can see from the photo I have attached...Chromecast Doesn't show up...

So I have been having some issues with the Android client where it would play some files but not others. And the Web client would play the files fine, so I did a little research and found that in Google Chrome Beta Google is working on a chrome cast extension that allows any HTML5 Video to be cast to the device. So I downloaded it, installed the extension, and went to my server. Sure enough when I play a video there is a Chromecast Icon in the upper left corner. And it works! Sometimes. Some files will play some wont when it does not play it says "unable to cast video due to site restrictions" I have noticed that the ones that do work are encoded with H264 codec. Has anyone else played around with this and got it to work consistently? Most of my files are AVI. Thanks!

Hi Community - I would appreciate some hardware advice to purchase during my upcoming trip to the USA. I live in Asia and can't fully use (or order from Amazon) streaming devices like Roku, FireTV, Samsung Smart Media Player, etc. By this I mean that all of the features like Hulu, Netflix, Amazon video are blocked through a standard internet connection in my country. I have had a taste of the ease of using my Android app to stream to my old DLNA compliant HP Mediasmart Media Center extender. I love the convenience of not loading the media center client, dealing with overscan settings and codec support by treating it as just a DLNA client. However, it is old and on its way out. I should mention that I had a look around in the shops for one of the Android mini-PC's but nothing is sold here other than some overpriced US$250 clunky settop boxes catering to Mandarin characters which I don't read. So, it appears the logical and positive choice is a Chromecast device. I would appreciate if anyone could verify if this is working well enough with the Android MB3 app and an HDMI & USB slot on the TV. Thanks in advance, Tanamur

During playback almost 100% of the time, Mediabrowser freezes and really just locks up either my phone or tablet to the point where I have to shut the device off and restart. I'll start the movie and everything will be fine. Then maybe I'll try to go and try and pause it and then I get a black screen and the entire device is not functional. Its gotten to the point that I just don't use the app anymore so I was hoping someone could help. I see by the reviews from the android play store that I am not the only one has this issue. Both my devices are Android 4.4.2. One is the a Galaxy S4 and the other is Nexus 7 (2013). Any help would be appreciated.

Where is the option to use Chromecast from the MBT interface?

I got a Chromecast last week and have been testing it to maybe take the job as a media player in the living room. First thing I notice is transcoding was needed for most my media, a bummer, but not a big deal. However I've had mixed results. My server is a 3.2ghz xeon sandy bridge WHS2011. I did a test and cpu use on the 4 cores are 80-90%, ~50%, ~40%, ~30% - total about 50% when transcoding. But the result is not very good, picture quality is ok, but video is not smooth. Now I know it's a issue with Chromecast only doing 60hz but it's not that. So, since my Freenas has plex as plugin I did a test there, it's also transcoding, cpu use is about the same (same cpu), but quality and smoothness is excellent, very close to original. As far as I can tell it's as good as the original and only the judder from not running native hz a issue. My MB3 transcoding is set to Max Quality. Is it possible to tweak transcoding ? I've tried several different bitrate settings in the app for chromecast but videosmoothness is allways the same (not smooth) only picture quality is different.

Hi All, I'm trying to set up chromecast on my kindle and managed to get the chromecast app on there via sideload however the kindle store version of the andriod client hasn't been updated in a while so the chromecast functionality isn't available. Is it possible to update the kindle store version of the android client

Have tested streaming to chromecast for a couple of days now and it works great. But I was wondering if 5.1 audio is supposed to work on files that have dts and dolby digital soundtracks? I got 5.1 audio on one file that had dts soundtrack with chromecast and that was the only file that didn't have mediainfo listed. I only got stereo on files that had mediainfo listed.(see logfiles) Is it supposed to stream 5.1 audio or if not will it be an option later? ffmpeg-03b97744-8ffd-4373-aac5-904edd8bec11(5.1 audio).txt ffmpeg-e65a685a-270c-47ad-b4a5-05af4899fed6(2.0 audio).txt