pychromecast | Library for Python 3 to communicate with the Google Chromecast | Audio Utils library

by home-assistant-libs Python Version: 14.0.1 License: MIT

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kandi X-RAY | pychromecast Summary

pychromecast is a Python library typically used in Telecommunications, Media, Media, Entertainment, Audio, Audio Utils applications. pychromecast has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available, it has a Permissive License and it has medium support. You can install using 'pip install pychromecast' or download it from GitHub, PyPI.

Library for Python 3 to communicate with the Google Chromecast.

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pychromecast has a medium active ecosystem.

It has 2401 star(s) with 367 fork(s). There are 92 watchers for this library.

There were 4 major release(s) in the last 6 months.

There are 127 open issues and 201 have been closed. On average issues are closed in 125 days. There are 6 open pull requests and 0 closed requests.

It has a neutral sentiment in the developer community.

The latest version of pychromecast is 14.0.1

Quality

pychromecast has 0 bugs and 0 code smells.

Security

pychromecast has no vulnerabilities reported, and its dependent libraries have no vulnerabilities reported.

pychromecast code analysis shows 0 unresolved vulnerabilities.

There are 0 security hotspots that need review.

License

pychromecast is licensed under the MIT License. This license is Permissive.

Permissive licenses have the least restrictions, and you can use them in most projects.

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pychromecast releases are available to install and integrate.

Deployable package is available in PyPI.

Build file is available. You can build the component from source.

It has 4757 lines of code, 344 functions and 47 files.

It has high code complexity. Code complexity directly impacts maintainability of the code.

Top functions reviewed by kandi - BETA

kandi has reviewed pychromecast and discovered the below as its top functions. This is intended to give you an instant insight into pychromecast implemented functionality, and help decide if they suit your requirements.

Run the Chromecast
Called when a channel is disconnected
Ping the Chromecast
Check if the connection has expired
Get a list of chromecasts
Create a Chromecast instance from the given cast info
Start discovery
Start the websocket
Start the background thread
Run the Chromecast once
Process received messages
Update known hosts
Send a message to a platform
Connect to the Chromecast
Thread main thread
Block until the session is active
Block until media is playing
Called when a new cast status is received
Get the cast type from the device
Quick play
Discover available chromecasts
Action handler
Load a URL
Retrieve a program id from a given program
Send message to destination
Quick play method
Called when a message is received

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Community Discussions

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Some videos fail to chromecast with error MEDIA_UNKNOWN

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Some videos fail to chromecast with error MEDIA_UNKNOWN

Asked 2020-Jun-01 at 20:06

Using mkchromecast to cast local mp4 files, some videos work, and some don't (as in: the screen hangs on the blue chromecast logo, suggesting that the initial connection worked). I can reproduce exactly the issue described here.

So I decided to go one level lower, with pychromecast, and try to see what actually happens when it hangs on the blue logo. I converted two videos to HLS format, and exposed them through an http server. The video that works with mkchromecast also works with my setup, but the one that fails, well... fails on both. With pychromecast, I don't get much more information than:

ERROR, code 100: MEDIA_UNKNOWN.

From the Cast documentation, this error means:

The media element encountered an unknown error fired from platform. The media element encountered an error that did not indicate it's one of MediaError.MEDIA_ERR_*. This should be rare.

It is not rare for me at all, though. I thought that maybe the failing video was in an unsupported format, as described in the documentation. So I tried to compare both videos with the following command:

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ANSWER

Answered 2020-Jun-01 at 20:06

It does not like 5.1 channel layout. Try downmixing it to stereo:

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62132905

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Vulnerabilities

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Install pychromecast

You can install using 'pip install pychromecast' or download it from GitHub, PyPI.
You can use pychromecast like any standard Python library. You will need to make sure that you have a development environment consisting of a Python distribution including header files, a compiler, pip, and git installed. Make sure that your pip, setuptools, and wheel are up to date. When using pip it is generally recommended to install packages in a virtual environment to avoid changes to the system.

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