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yeah, but they don't support subtitles as far as i can tell. my frustration w/ VLC's casting is what drove me to write this.

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You wrote on your product page:

"Chromecast only supports a handful of subtitle formats, .srt not included. But it does support WebVTT. So we extract whatever subtitles are in your video, convert them to WebVTT, and then reattach them to the video through Chomecast's API."

Did you attempt to get this ported to VLC?

I did not. But nor did I write the conversation code. That was an existing python lib.

Is there something amiss with VLC's Chromecast abilities? I haven't had a chance to test it out yet, but was really happy to see it in the changelog

Yeah, there is no subtitles support for now. It will be supported in the next release.

The new VLC never finds my chromecast, and this does right away. Apparently a lot of people are having nonspecific trouble with the new VLC feature.

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