A menu bar application using mpv as DLNA AVTransport Media Renderer.
Currently supported platform 🖥 :
- MacOS
- Gnome (test with ubuntu20.04)
- KDE (test with kubuntu21.04)
- Other Linux under xorg (test with Raspberry Pi OS)
- Windows (beta)
For details of GUI support, please refer to: https://pystray.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#selecting-a-backend
Download link: Macast_v*_darwin.zip
Download link: Macast_v*_windows_debug.zip
wget https://github.com/xfangfang/Macast/archive/main.zip
unzip main.zip
cd Macast-main
pip3 install pystray cherrypy lxml requests
python3 Macast.py
# if there is something wrong, try this:
export PYSTRAY_BACKEND=gtk && python3 Macast.py
Tips:
- Make sure you have mpv installed:
# install mpv in ubuntu
sudo apt install mpv
- Make sure you can use gi:
$ python3
Python 3.7.10 (default, Jun 3 2021, 17:51:26)
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import gi
>>>
if there is something wrong, try: sudo apt-get install python3-gi
if you use conda, check this https://stackoverflow.com/a/40303128
After opening this app, a small icon will appear in the menu bar, and you can push video from a local DLNA client.
⚠️ In MacOS The "~/Library/Application\ Support/Macast" directory will be created to save the configuration information of the application
wget https://laboratory.stolendata.net/~djinn/mpv_osx/mpv-latest.tar.gz
mkdir -p bin && tar --strip-components 2 -C bin -xzvf mpv-latest.tar.gz mpv.app/Contents/MacOSpip install -r requirements.txt
python Macast.py⚠️ MPV starts slowly the first time you run Macast.py, it needs to wait for a while
pip install py2app
pip install setuptools==44.0.0 # try this if you cannot run Macast.app
python setup.py py2app
cp -R bin dist/Macast.app/Contents/Resources/
open dist⚠️ After packing, you can find the compiled content in the dist directory