csholmq wrote:I just purchased the Donate license to support this awesome app! Don't really know what this means though;
As a bonus the Ads will be removed and you will gain access to some additional nice to have but non-essential features.
What exactly are these features? I tried to read up on the project site but I just found the same phrasing over there.
On another note, my NAS is either not able to serve the Chromecast profile (Low/HIgh/Original) due to transcoding performance or something isn't correctly set up. Currently, MP4 works great but not MKV. Transmuxing should do the job for both, no?
A few things, they are listed if you had purchased through the app. Mostly for the Ads/as a little thank you, but also unrestricted audio caching and when I get round to it unrestricted video downloading..
Yes unfortunately Chromecast can only naively handle MP4s, everything else has to be transcoded using x264 -> HLS. However, Chromecast can only handle low bitrate streams when using HLS, so the default behavior is to do a full transcode to ensure the bitrate is low enough. This is not something I'm happy about, so planning on having it as an option via the app (backed by 2 profiles). For now you may want to change the profile under application-profiles.xml to disable the forced transcoding under original quality.