Chromecast support

[lacolos]

First off I wanted to say good work on New pipe, it is now my go to YouTube player! The only functionality I miss is the ability to chromecast. I'm not sure if this is in the works or even possible? Thanks

[coffeemakr]

Support was already requested (see #351), then closed but not reopened after the discovery of an open-source library to stream to Google Cast.

[theScrabi]

I wonder how far they came with this project.

[imShara]

Not chromecast, but reversed youtube remote API https://github.com/mutantmonkey/youtube-remote

[KeizerDev]

@imShara That's cool, we can implement it but the thing is. The Chromecast audio won't work with it and it would be awesome to get that working with NewPipe. If we can make that work it would be another plus to use this app rather then the original Youtube app as they don't support the Chromecast audio. I want to dig into implementing it from scratch but I don't have much time. I've found a good project who have implemented it, without the Google lib.

[KeizerDev]

If we can implement this https://github.com/vitalidze/chromecast-java-api-v2 with the following snippet:

chromecast.load("http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4");

We can force the Chromecast using a certain quality. This is not supported by the original Youtube app. (Good if you only want to see high quality or if you want to save data you can force one with lower quality)

[theScrabi]

That lib actually looks pretty sophisticated. I like it :)

[KeizerDev]

Yup, and we have direct links, right? It wouldn't be much of a pain to implement it

[theScrabi]

I guess not.

@theScrabi: All we'll have to care about are the supported formats of Chromecast. I think I'll mess around with adding this, since I like doing this kind of stuff more than messing around with Android's layout stuff. IMHO we should also support some open standard instead of just the proprietary Chromecast. So maybe we should make a PipeCast library (@TheAssassin: Can we modify and relicense that Apache v2 library as GPL v3?).

[theScrabi]

Android's layout stuff

Totally understandable xD

So maybe we should make a PipeCast library

Yea why not :) I agree that we should prefer open standards.

@theScrabi: Yeah, but someone will need to do that layout stuff. Btw could you create a PipeCast repo in TeamNewPipe and give me write access to it?

[theScrabi]

I created PipeCast, and you got write access.
Please make sure the license is gpl3.

@theScrabi: Thanks! Ofcourse I will, that's why I asked if Apache v2 can become GPL v3 in a derivative work, which I looked up and it looks like it's possible. I'll try starting to implement it tomorrow.

[theScrabi]

Well I'm not that as good as @TheAssassin with legal things, but I think since apche2 is a mandatory license you can change the license when ever you like. You should just keep the copyright.