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NymphCast has been around for years but it's still basically unheard of. This has more polished marketing (and a less weird name) but other than that I don't se
by nsteel 2y ago
NymphCast has been around for years but it's still basically unheard of. This has more polished marketing (and a less weird name) but other than that I don't see what makes it any more likely to succeed.
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22457351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22457351
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27482699 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27482699
- oezi 2y agoI wonder what is their ecosystem play? Why would Netflix implement this in their app? Why would any TV manufacturer?
- koen31 2y agoI am not counting on anybody to implement this on their TV. We don't have big budgets to pay TV manufacturers to put FCast receivers inside. Instead, I hope to have receivers that the user can install if they wish.
- oezi 2y agoI am more troubled by how you want to get the Cast button into Netflix, YouTube, etc.
- koen31 2y agoI am not counting on this to happen quickly if at all. Though if FCast is the thing everyone has access to (regardless of Apple TV, Fire TV, Android TV, etc) then maybe eventually it will happen. If you have a raspberry pi, and old computer or an old phone you aren't using, you can easily convert it into a FCast receiver. Doing the same with Chromecast is more tricky since the protocol is more extensive and most clients verify the certificates of the casting device to be authorized by Google.
- pzo 2y agoprobably worth to consider having official receiver for UmbrelOS [0] and CasaOS [1] in their appstores for increased user adoptions [0] https://umbrel.com/ https://umbrel.com/ [1] https://casaos.zimaspace.com/ https://casaos.zimaspace.com/
- JonChesterfield 2y agoJellyfin exists on various hardware as an optional install so it seems likely FCast would work on that distribution model.
- riedel 2y agoWhy not use straight UPnP (DLNA). Tons of open source there. The only problem was standardising codecs (also related to the Chromecast spinoff)
- brnt 2y agoI don't know that you can 'cast' using DLNA. Live streams and such.
- nsteel 2y agoI think it depends on the server. I believe serviio supports it. Mediatomb supposedly could (another project I thought was dead but turns out has been reborn under the 'Gerbera' name!). They transcode the original stream into something that a dumb DLNA renderer (i.e. your TV) supports.
- IshKebab 2y agoUPnP/DLNA seems to be a bit of a disaster protocol wise. As you say the codec support is "eh whatever" which means whether it works or not depends on too many random factors. It's also a massively over-complicated design-by-committee relic. There also isn't a good open source DLNA server (presumably because of the above issues).
- nsteel 2y agoThat's actually pretty fair. I was ready to jump in and say that miniDLNA is such a server but having looking I see it's actually been unmaintained for 10+ years! It has worked pretty well for me but I think I must have just gotten everything in the right formats years ago so I don't notice the issues I see reported now (I used to just restart it to avoid the notify issues). Presumably you still need some kind of media server for the fcast receiver to stream from when playing local media, I assumed that would be dlna based but what is the actual idea here?