VLC 3.0 Chromecast support
VideoLAN, the company behind the powerful cross-platform VLC Media Player, revealed on Wednesday that VLC Media Player 3.0 will ship with Chromecast support.
Chromecast is a device created by Google that allows you to stream media from a device to another.
While it is certainly not the only device for the job, Chromecast makes it relatively easy. Back when Chromecast was released, it was kinda complicated to get the device to stream local media to the TV though.
VideoLAN's announced is just a side note in a weekly "this week in VideoLAN" series that highlights what the company has been working on or doing in the past seven days.
You find the following information about Chromecast support under modules:
The Qt interface received the first renderers selection dialog. You should be able to detect your ChromeCast from this interface, and stream to it.
So, VLC Media Player 3.0 will detect Chromecast devices connected to the network so that it can be selected as the destination for the media stream.
The most likely scenario for support is that VLC will transcode formats on the fly so that any supported media file can be streamed to the Chromecast device.
VideoLAN did not mention any particular operating system which suggests that desktop versions of VLC Media Player will get support for Google's Chromecast device. It is unclear right now whether VLC for Android will get support as well, or if the feature is reserved for desktop systems for the time being.
VLC Media Player 3.0 is only available on the Nightly channel currently. Downloads are usually provided on this page on the VideoLAN website, but there are not any right now listed when you click on one of the supported operating systems.
It is probably only a matter of time before builds are pushed to the page.
It is unclear when VLC Media Player 3.0 final will be released. VideoLAN released an update for the current stable branch VLC 2.2.4 just this week that fixed two security issues in the player.
Why not make use of the mplayer.conf?
Huh, I have never even seen this “font cache” pane; videos play at once for me, using VLC & XP SP3.
Mike, in theory this should have only been displayed once to you, at the very first video that you played with VLC. The time this window is displayed depends largely on the number of fonts in your font directory.
huh, I lucked out for a change?? Amazing!!
Apparently VLC keeps this info through version updates, but I didn’t see this message after a fresh OS install about 8 weeks ago, & a new VLC.
yes, yes, i have the same problem. sometimes, VLC crashes when it is playing .mov file.
Error:
Buidling font Cache pop-up
Solution:
Open VLC player.
On Menu Bar:
Tools
Preferences
(at bottom – left side)
Show settings — ALL
Open: Video
Click: Subtitles/OSD (This is now highlited, not opened)
Text rendering module – change this to “Dummy font renderer function”
Save
Exit
Re-open – done.
Progam will no longer look outside self for fonts
Source – WorthyTricks.co.cc
Great tip, thanks a lot Kishore.
@Kishore, I’ll try your tips, but does this mean it will no longer show subtitles either?
I do use subtitles, but the fontcache dialog box pops up (almost) everytime I play a file.
Could this be related to the fonts I have installed? Or if I add/remove fonts to my system?
I’ll try to do a fresh install also, if your tips does no work. I’ll post back here later…
/thanks
/j
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,Dont worry, VLC is currently sorting out this issue and the next version will be out soon.
No probs @ Martin !! Its my pleasure
Try running LC with administrator privileges. That seemed to fix it for me
I am using SMplayer 0.8.6 (64-bit) (Portable Edition) on Windows 7 x64. Even with the -nofontconfig parameter in place SMplayer still scans the fonts. Also, I have enabled normal subtitles and it is still scanning fonts before playing a video. Also, it does this every time the player opens a video after a system restart (only the fist video played).
Does that mean that only instrumental versions of songs will be available for non-paying users?