xat / chromecast-player

simple chromecast player

chromecast-player

A simple chromecast player. Relies on the castv2-client lib from thibauts, all credits go to him.

Usage Samples

Start Playback of some video file:

const player = require('chromecast-player')();
const media = 'http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/ED_1280.mp4';

player.launch(media, (err, p) => {
  p.once('playing', () => {
    console.log('playback has started.');
  });
});

Attach to a currently playing session:

const player = require('chromecast-player')();

player.attach((err, p) => {
  p.pause();
});

Installation

npm install chromecast-player --save

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Simon Kusterer Licensed under the MIT license.

chromecast-player's Issues

Question: How to access metadata?

Previous versions of this api (0.0.6) allowed directly access to the metadata property on node-castv2-client. Is it still possible to do this?

Question: How do I change the content-type?

How to change the content-type you send to the chromecast ?

Multiple Chromecasts

I'm trying to decipher where I could specify the name of a local chromecast so I could attach and send commands to that chromecast only. Any advice?

youtube example plugin

The new chromecast-player version I'm working on will have a simple plugin api (see the dev branch). there for I wanted to create a sample youtube plugin.

I managed to attach the player to an already running youtube session which I started from the browser. I was able todo stuff like play() or pause().

However, I was not able to start the playback of a youtube video. What I found out so far is, that the youtube appId is 233637DE, the contentId seems to be the youtube-id (e.g. aT5VZBeMz_g) and the contentType is x-youtube/video. When trying to load, the Chromecast device returns INVALID_PLAYER_STATE as error.

@thibauts do you have any thoughts on this?

handle close-events correctly

• The onClose callback defined in api.js never seems to get called
• There should be a defined way to shutdown the player
• The listeners within timelineHelper.js should get removed on close

getVolume returns null

Very nice project ;) I only have a problem with getVolume, the callback gets null instead of the volume, what am I doing wrong?

var player = require('chromecast-player')();
player.attach(function (err, p) {
    p.getVolume(function (vol) {
        console.log(vol);
    });
});

Question: subtitles

Has anyone figured this out?

castv2-client supports it: https://github.com/thibauts/node-castv2-client/wiki/How-to-use-subtitles-with-the-DefaultMediaReceiver-app#enabling-subtitles

Default ttl is too short

Hi ! Thanks !

I own a chromecast key model H2G2-42. With castnow, I have many timeouts with defaults.ttl set to 10000... no more timeouts with 20000.

https://github.com/xat/chromecast-player/blob/master/index.js#L16

Mute state isn't reflected in current session.

When querying the state of the Chromecast using getCurrentSession, the 2nd parameter on the callback says that the chromecast is not muted. Even after muting it with this lib.

I'm using v0.2.3 with a 1st generation Chromecast.