Rafostar / cast-to-tv-links-addon

Web links casting support for GNOME Shell Extension Cast to TV.

Cast to TV Links Add-on

Web links casting support for GNOME Shell Extension Cast to TV.

Features

• Cast videos, music and pictures from internet
• All youtube-dl compatible sites are supported
• Constant video quality throughout playback
• No commercials
• Supports captions/subtitles
• Allows disabling VP9 codec
• Does not require Chrome/Chromium browser

Requirements

• Cast to TV (version 11 or later)
• youtube-dl

Always use the newest possible youtube-dl version.

Download

Installation from source code

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/Rafostar/cast-to-tv-links-addon.git
cd cast-to-tv-links-addon
make install

After installing restart gnome-shell and enable the newly added extension.

How to use

Before using this Add-on you also must install some additional npm packages.
Go to Cast Settings -> Modules and click Install npm modules button.
This step will install additional packages and automatically restart Cast to TV server.

Launch app from newly added Link menu entry in Cast media submenu.
Simply write/paste link to the website containing the requested media content and click Cast link button or achieve the same effect even simpler by dragging link into the text field.

Configuration

Add-ons can be configured from within Cast to TV extension preferences (Cast Settings in drop down menu).
After installing a new "Add-ons" tab will be added to the extension settings.

Some of the options that might need explaining are:

• Preferred format

  • Best seekable - tries to pick up videos with formats that will allow seeking using top bar remote. In this mode youtube-dl is only used to obtain direct link to video and files are not downloaded locally.
  • Best quality - selects best quality (not always seekable) videos and if necessary downloads them to RAM for media merging (on the fly) while sending output directly to the receiver.

• Preferred and fallback subtitles languages - first and second best choice when selecting video captions (if preferred lang. is not available for a particular video, fallback lang. is used). If you do not want video captions, then fill those fields with words not representing any of the lang. codes (e.g: none).

Info for translators

All translatable files are in the main extension.
Preferred translation method is to use Cast to TV Crowdin web page.

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