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FCast engineer here. Look forward to FCast receivers on platforms like AppleTV, Roku, Tizen (Samsung), WebOS (LG).

by koen31 2y ago

grepexdev 2y ago
Will there be a receiver for Fire TV too?
- koen31 2y ago
  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLKVH8GZ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=fcast&s=mobile-apps&sr=1-1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLKVH8GZ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=fca... personally only tested on a Fire TV Stick but I believe it should be equivalent?
teruakohatu 2y ago
Are any efforts being made to incorporate this into VLC? Both as a receiver and caster?
- koen31 2y ago
  Not ongoing but certainly something I am open to.
- zozbot234 2y ago
  Not sure how useful that would be, since VideoLAN supports its own streaming solution https://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html https://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html
junon 2y ago
Question, is it named after the sites?
akvadrako 2y ago
What about as a Kodi plugin?
- koen31 2y ago
  I have seen several attempts at this https://github.com/c4valli/kodi-fcast-receiver https://github.com/c4valli/kodi-fcast-receiver being one of them. There is not one provided by FUTO (for now).
cobalt60 2y ago
Any road map for Bandcamp and SoundCloud (logged in) support. Briefly looked at SoundCloud script js, for the moment it seems to be written to pull frontpage with basic API implementation, correct me if I'm wrong.
brnt 2y ago
Thanks for taking this effort, I hope it takes off!
mintplant 2y ago
The site talks about setting up a receiver, but I can't figure out how I would cast something to an FCast receiver, or what is currently available to cast.
- koen31 2y ago
  We will do a better job explaining this soon and also provide binaries. For now there are a few possibilities: 1. Grayjay can cast to an FCast receiver 2. There are some terminal clients and a nautilus plugin, but we don't provide binaries (yet). These can be used to cast local media and remote media https://gitlab.com/futo-org/fcast/-/tree/master/client https://gitlab.com/futo-org/fcast/-/tree/master/client 3. Someone made a yt-dlp client that can cast to FCast: https://git.sr.ht/~shironeko/fcast/tree/yt-dlp/item/clients/yt-dlp/fcast.py https://git.sr.ht/~shironeko/fcast/tree/yt-dlp/item/clients/... 4. Cloudfstream supports it: https://github.com/recloudstream/cloudstream/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/lagradost/cloudstream3/utils/fcast/FcastSession.kt https://github.com/recloudstream/cloudstream/blob/master/app...
viernullvier 2y ago
Would it be possible (in theory) to build a receiver on an embedded platform, for instance an audio-only ESP32 speaker, or is there something in the protocol that requires a more powerful device?
- koen31 2y ago
  The protocol has been designed by taking the commonalities between all different casting protocols like AirPlay and Chromecast as a base. This is what has been used to make version 1.0. I tried making it as simple as possible and low effort to implement. https://gitlab.com/futo-org/fcast/-/wikis/Protocol-version-1 https://gitlab.com/futo-org/fcast/-/wikis/Protocol-version-1 As you can see the 1.0 protocol is very lean and fits on an A4. If you want to have an audio-only ESP32 speaker I don't see why it wouldn't be possible with the FCast protocol.
  - beagle3 2y ago
    For multiple speakers/screens, some kind of guarantee or description about the precision of the update callback would make it possible to synchronize multiple speakers and screens.

FCast engineer here. Look forward to FCast receivers on platforms like AppleTV, Roku, Tizen (Samsung), WebOS (LG).

by koen31 2y ago

FCast engineer here. Look forward to FCast receivers on platforms like AppleTV, Roku, Tizen (Samsung), WebOS (LG).

grepexdev 2y ago

Will there be a receiver for Fire TV too?

koen31 2y ago
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLKVH8GZ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=fcast&s=mobile-apps&sr=1-1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLKVH8GZ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=fca... personally only tested on a Fire TV Stick but I believe it should be equivalent?

teruakohatu 2y ago

Are any efforts being made to incorporate this into VLC? Both as a receiver and caster?

koen31 2y ago
Not ongoing but certainly something I am open to.
zozbot234 2y ago
Not sure how useful that would be, since VideoLAN supports its own streaming solution https://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html https://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html

junon 2y ago

Question, is it named after the sites?

akvadrako 2y ago

What about as a Kodi plugin?

koen31 2y ago
I have seen several attempts at this https://github.com/c4valli/kodi-fcast-receiver https://github.com/c4valli/kodi-fcast-receiver being one of them. There is not one provided by FUTO (for now).

cobalt60 2y ago

Any road map for Bandcamp and SoundCloud (logged in) support. Briefly looked at SoundCloud script js, for the moment it seems to be written to pull frontpage with basic API implementation, correct me if I'm wrong.

brnt 2y ago

Thanks for taking this effort, I hope it takes off!

mintplant 2y ago

The site talks about setting up a receiver, but I can't figure out how I would cast something to an FCast receiver, or what is currently available to cast.

koen31 2y ago
We will do a better job explaining this soon and also provide binaries. For now there are a few possibilities: 1. Grayjay can cast to an FCast receiver 2. There are some terminal clients and a nautilus plugin, but we don't provide binaries (yet). These can be used to cast local media and remote media https://gitlab.com/futo-org/fcast/-/tree/master/client https://gitlab.com/futo-org/fcast/-/tree/master/client 3. Someone made a yt-dlp client that can cast to FCast: https://git.sr.ht/~shironeko/fcast/tree/yt-dlp/item/clients/yt-dlp/fcast.py https://git.sr.ht/~shironeko/fcast/tree/yt-dlp/item/clients/... 4. Cloudfstream supports it: https://github.com/recloudstream/cloudstream/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/lagradost/cloudstream3/utils/fcast/FcastSession.kt https://github.com/recloudstream/cloudstream/blob/master/app...

viernullvier 2y ago

Would it be possible (in theory) to build a receiver on an embedded platform, for instance an audio-only ESP32 speaker, or is there something in the protocol that requires a more powerful device?

koen31 2y ago
The protocol has been designed by taking the commonalities between all different casting protocols like AirPlay and Chromecast as a base. This is what has been used to make version 1.0. I tried making it as simple as possible and low effort to implement. https://gitlab.com/futo-org/fcast/-/wikis/Protocol-version-1 https://gitlab.com/futo-org/fcast/-/wikis/Protocol-version-1 As you can see the 1.0 protocol is very lean and fits on an A4. If you want to have an audio-only ESP32 speaker I don't see why it wouldn't be possible with the FCast protocol.
- beagle3 2y ago
  For multiple speakers/screens, some kind of guarantee or description about the precision of the update callback would make it possible to synchronize multiple speakers and screens.