VLC cannot send audio from stream to chromecast / bluetooth speaker
Dear Devs,
I'd like to report a bug I experienced with VLC 3 on two different computers trying to play media contents from an online stream to two different remote speakers within my local area network. I experienced this issue with VLC running both on Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10 v1903; VLC version 3.0.7 and 3.0.8 respectively.
In both cases, I opened the audio source (online radio) with VLC and get normal playback when I set the renderer to . However, if I switch to my cast device (on one trial I used a chromecast plugged to my TV, on the second I used a Bluetooth smart speaker) I get no sound coming from these although VLC continues playing normally and the remote devices seem to be receiving something (in the Chromecast+TV case, I got a "playing default stream" message (or similar) and in the speaker case I received the "playing " on the google home screen where I was monitoring the speaker, it even gives me the chance to stop casting using my phone...).
I must highlight that this issue happens to me only with contents I get from an online stream; I tried playing whatever I had locally (say some MP3 files) and cast them to the remote device, and everything works smooth.
If you want to reproduce the test, I can send you the files with the radio streams I tried, but I guess VLc playing any file with a stream URL should behave the same way.
I hope you manage to fix this issue, VLC has been my player of choice for around 12 years now...
Regards
Martin S.
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zip file containing a .pls file with the radio stream I tried to play with VLC (plays locally but not to my remote device) and a capture of the google home app monitoring my device (showing it receives the signal from VLC but plays nothing) (and BTW I checked the volume.. :) )
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added Component::Stream output: Chromecast label
Hi Dev-community,
I just want to report a small audio problem, which could be linked to the bug-report from "martinsc".
I use Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS. VLC 3.0.16 Vetinari (GUI).
An bluetooth speaker, which is successfully connected. Another audio software was able to play (.mp3) audio-files successful over this remote speaker. The VLC-Player has only worked on not bluetooth devices (build in speakers and analog audio output), for me.
In detail the sound output, I was hearing over bluetooth, sounds jerky.
I hope this information can help you, improving the player further.
Best Regards
BeatEngine
