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Anyone know if the API is powerful enough to let you build an app that can project video and have it play synced audio via headphones connected to the controlli
by drcode 13y ago
Anyone know if the API is powerful enough to let you build an app that can project video and have it play synced audio via headphones connected to the controlling device? Being able to listen to the audio via remote headphones is a killer feature of the Roku 3 IMHO and I would love it if I could do this via my chromecast as well.
(Yes, I am aware that the Chromecast typically plays buffered video from the video source without running data through the controlling device and that having synced audio running on the device therefore is contrary to the design. I'm asking whether this limitation is surmountable by clever programming against the API.)
- jsight 13y agoI haven't looked into the API in-depth, but I can imagine some (fairly hackish) ways to accomplish this that wouldn't require much support from the native API. I hope someone does it.
- agildehaus 13y agoYou can send messages back and forth from the receiving app running on the Chromecast and the sending device, so theoretically you could so such a thing if the (fairly small but not insignificant) latencies involved aren't a problem.
- Untit1ed 13y agoThat'd be easy enough even before the release of the SDK - open the video on the Chromecast, audio on the sender app, use the websocket connection between them to keep them in sync, Bob's your uncle. Making it so that you only downloaded the video on the Chromecast and the audio on the sender app would be a little more difficult, but not insurmountable.