They contain some icon themes and skins for smplayer and its highly recommended that you install them too. But the right one - which fails to play completely - has stereo instead of 6 channels and has ENCODER: Lavc58.54.100 libmp3lame. There are available two optional packages: smplayer-themes and smplayer-skins. So the main difference that I can see, is that the original has eac3 ( which cannot be used by Chromecast) which explains why audio is mute. Left side no audio, right side can't play the file at all: So I did a comparison of the two media files ffprobe media-original.mkv 2>&1 > /dev/null So it went from not being able to play the sound to completely failing to play the media. With SMPlayer 17. ffmpeg -i media-original.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec mp3 media-mp3.mkvīut now Chromecast (I'm using Chrome to do Chromecast via SMPlayer) fails to play the media completely and says The new release features experimental support for Chromecast. In this way, we can play the video from our computer through the. So I decided to convert the original video from eac3 audio encoding to mp3. SMPlayer incorporates the ability to view any video on a monitor or TV using chromecast. When I cast a movie to Chromecast, I get no sound.

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