giovedì 31 luglio 2025

cast to Android TV with audio

 The google-chrome feature Cast -> Cast, save & share does't fork - TV is seen, but no real connection and a crash indeed.

Using gnome-display-network-displays does work, but for the audio I had to follow the advice here

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/gvtzpb/ubuntu_2004_lts_x86_64_trying_to_use_paprefs_but/


I had the same issue:


If you do


strace paprefs 2>&1 |grep /lib/pulse


you see that some modules in /usr/lib/pulse-13.99/modules are not found.


There is no directory /usr/lib/pulse-13.99; it is called /usr/lib/pulse-13.99.1


I made a symlink:


sudo bash


cd /usr/lib/


ln -s pulse-13.99 pulse-13.99.1


exit


and now it worked.


Then, in pavucontrol, I had to choose, under Recording (!), Monitor of built-in Audio Stereo