Subtitles while casting

[pathania07]

Steps to reproduce

1. Cast to a Chromecast
2. Play an episode
3. Select subtitles
4. Play the video

Expected behavior

Subtitles should appear in video and the menu (as selected)

Actual behavior

Selected subtitles won't be shown both in videos and the menu to select them

Cloudstream version and commit hash

4.3.0

Android version

Android 13

Logcat

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Other details

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[Blatzar]

Chromecast is hilariously limited in casting formats supported: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media#subtitles_and_closed_captions

Notably they do not support SRT files, which I think results in the error youre describing. We cannot fix this currently.

[pathania07]

Ok man thanks for letting me know 🙏🏻

[jeyjai]

Ok man thanks for letting me know 🙏🏻

If your tv or device got the web video caster app (which a lot of tv app stores do) or just a web browser, you can use web video caster on your phone and cast both video and subtitle that way