Hi.
System in running "Testing", using KDE, I'm trying to get Chromium to send audio via Chromecast as well as video.
After enabling the relevant flag[1], I've tried casting a single
tab and playing a video. It worked well, with audio coming from
TV.
Stopped the transmission, switched source to desktop and
restarted: video is shown, audio remains from computer.
Additionally, using Chrome directly (ughs, I know...) I get the
same results.
On the other hand, with the office laptop using Windows, both Chromium (nightly) and Chrome can share full desktop with audio.
In short: casting from Linux can only send audio from single tab.
This is of course a problem for applications without native
Chromecast support, especially with my own laptop having very weak
speakers.
Has anyone more recent information[2]? Pointers to hard evidence
confirming it won't work are also welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Andrea.
[1] chrome://flags/#load-media-router-component-extension
[2]
https://askubuntu.com/questions/855137/ubuntu-14-04-chromecast-desktop-casting-no-audio