Chromecast Audio [#9036]

[wippie]

Hi, is the Chromecast functionality supposed to be working? I can see my Chromecast devices from MM5, but when one is selected, MM5 refuses to play a song.

[Ludek]

Yes, it is supposed to work.

Are you able to cast from the same PC using e.g. Chrome?
Could you please generate and share debug log (item 4b here: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... ?f=6&t=341 )

Thanks!

[wippie]

No problem casting from Chrome.
Internal Player MM5 works well. When I choose a chromecast, it is not just that I do not hear sound, MM5 refuses to play (without message), the song stays at 00:00:00. There are no messages, errors, crashes, freezes or anything else happening.


Debug (tested on chromecast named: Only The Living Room), this is what's shown when MM5 tries to play song:

[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
[19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
[21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room

[wippie]

Yep, no problem casting from Chrome. MM5 on the other hand does not give any error, message, freeze or whatever, it just does not play song, song stays at 00:00:00. Internal player works well.
Using version 5.0.0.2062 Alpha on Windows 7 (64).

Debug gives me (when MM5 tries to play song):

00000001 0.00000000 [19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
00000002 0.04793520 [21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
00000003 0.20012398 [19736] Waiting for IpcRecv failed to read 8 bytes with error code 258
00000004 0.29623386 [21736] MM5 [18652](R) TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo, , ) on Only The Living Room
etc. etc.

[Ludek]

Could you please share whole the log file? e.g. upload it to DropBox and share the link here?

They are some important messages like

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TChromeCastHandler.SendCastMessage: sender: sender-0, receiver: receiver-0, namespace: urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.connection , JSON: {"type":"CONNECT"}
TChromeCastHandler.SendCastMessage: sender: sender-0, receiver: receiver-0, namespace: urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.tp.heartbeat , JSON: {"type":"PING"}
TChromeCastHandler.SendCastMessage: sender: sender-0, receiver: receiver-0, namespace: urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.receiver , JSON: {"type":"LAUNCH","appId":"CC1AD845","requestId":1}
TChromeCastHandler.OnCastMessage: {"type":"PONG"}

prepending the

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TChromecastPlayer.InvokeAction(GetTransportInfo

Thanks!

[wippie]

So I rebooted computer, ran debug, started up MM5 (with chromecast already selected as streaming option), gave it a moment, then pressed play, pause, play on same song. Here is the log file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t5y9fulyb1vai ... 4.LOG?dl=0

I don't think your important messages are in the log file.
Name of the Chromecast I used: Only The Living Room.
I'm running MM5 "out-of-the-box", meaning I did not change parameters except for selecting the chromecast, nor did I install extensions, etc.

[Ludek]

Hi,
thanks for the log, I see.

This looks like http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=13665 (to be fixed)

Workaround for you is to add the tracks into library at first (before playing).

[wippie]

Yes!!!, that works, thanks Ludek!

[wippie]

So it works, but I can only select 1 Chromecast at a time. The Chromecast group I created (which works from Google Chrome) consisting of my 2 Chromecasts is not visible in the selection box.

[Ludek]

Try multi-zone playback: http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=9036

[wippie]

I searched the renderers without success under Tools-Options-Streaming-Multizone. Thanks to your link I could select them under Play-PlayTo.
However, even though the first song plays correctly to my 2 selected Chromecasts, when MM starts the second song, I loose one of the Chromecasts, eventhough they are still both selected in MM. Same thing happens when I change volume in MM when playing a song.

In MM, they are still both selected, but the second item selected is no longer streamed to.

When I restart MM, and play a song, it is streamed correctly again to both Chromecasts, until next song or volume change.

[Ludek]

OK, thanks for reporting, tracking as item m) here http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view. ... 036#c47669 and will look into it.