Chromecast plays audio but no video - Live TV

[Luke 42077]

Hi, can you please try this again? Thanks.

[Kcircuit 6]

I just spun up a Ubuntu server and installed 4.9.1.80, Chromecasting a live tv channel still doesn't work correctly. Audio only coming through.

[OptiOignon 0]

It still doesn't work properly (only audio) emby version 4.9.1.80

[Luke 42077]

Hi, can you please try this again? Thanks.

[OptiOignon 0]

Great, it works! Thanks!

But for me, there's still a small problem. When I start playing a channel for the first time, it works as expected. If I manually stop playing that channel and then start another, still no problems, it works. However, if I put channel #2 without stopping playing channel #1, I get an error message and the channel change doesn't work. I have to press channel #2 again for it to play, but the error message still remains in the foreground.

 

I'm using NextPVR, maybe that's the problem. I'll look at the logs when I have more time.

[Relish02 2]

Chromecast from the iOS Emby app is working for me now on server 4.9.1.80 and seems to work better than in the past. Thanks @Luke!
I used to also have an issue where the audio and video would initially be out of sync, but so far, I haven't seen that yet.

There are some issues with how the UI is working after casting is started, I can elaborate if you are not already aware.

[Luke 42077]

53 minutes ago, Relish02 said:

Chromecast from the iOS Emby app is working for me now on server 4.9.1.80 and seems to work better than in the past. Thanks @Luke!
I used to also have an issue where the audio and video would initially be out of sync, but so far, I haven't seen that yet.

There are some issues with how the UI is working after casting is started, I can elaborate if you are not already aware.

Hi, yes please and thanks.

[Relish02 2]

20 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, yes please and thanks.

It's just minor stuff. After casting starts, I get the usual bar down towards the bottom of the screen:

If I tap on that bar for the remote control screen, I get this:

If I tap in the middle of the empty area, then the remote control screen appears:

I haven't checked out all the controls here yet, but I notice that there is no stop button. The only way to stop is to turn off casting. Perhaps this is intentional, but just thought I would mention it.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, we'll take a look at it. Thanks.

[madmack 2]

It works indeed. One thing i noticed is that we no longer have a stop button, only pause. It seems the only way I can stop the stream now is by either switching to another channel or disabling casting.

[Luke 42077]

HI, yes we need to restore the stop button. Thanks.

[Kcircuit 6]

Appears to be mostly working now with the latest update.
Some times freezing on the app when casting or a spinning blue wheel (android app) but generally it's working.

[Kcircuit 6]

For me the issue has returned, when I cast a live tv channel I just have a spinning wheel on the TV with the words Ready to Cast.

[Luke 42077]

On 11/3/2025 at 12:55 AM, Kcircuit said:

For me the issue has returned, when I cast a live tv channel I just have a spinning wheel on the TV with the words Ready to Cast.

 

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

 

[Kcircuit 6]

Have a look at these, i rebooted the server so the logs were fresh.
I think the problem only exists when Chromecasting from an external connection.
The following day i tried it on a local connection (to the server) and it worked fine.

embyserver.txt

ffmpeg-1

ffmpeg-2

[Kcircuit 6]

I did note, when casting locally when it worked, on the dashboard it would say HTTP connection.
Then when i played back the same video remotely on a laptop & phone it still said HTTP, even though it should be over https.

 

Monitoring the connection with Wireshark i can see TCP packets being passed to my secure port, does this sound right ?
Although it only looks like the packets from the client back to the host are TCP. No expert  in this area sorry !

Edited November 9, 2025 by Kcircuit

[Luke 42077]

So you're getting audio but no video?

[Kcircuit 6]

6 hours ago, Luke said:

So you're getting audio but no video?

a bit of both, sometimes only audio sometimes just nothing other then the spinning circle.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, can you give it another try? Thanks.