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diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index 3b2f16c..97ea679 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -394,11 +394,11 @@ resume. ### Casting to a TV -**The desktop and Android applications.** Films and photos can be sent to a -cast-capable TV or dongle on the same network. The cast button is in the -Videos toolbar, at the top of Photos, in an album's bar and in the photo -viewer — in a group and in Search alike — and *Cast to device* is in the -player. Devices appear as +**The desktop and Android applications.** Films, photos and music can be sent +to a cast-capable TV or dongle on the same network. The cast button is in the +Videos and Music toolbars, at the top of Photos, in an album's bar, in the photo +viewer and in the music bar — in a group and in Search alike — and *Cast to +device* is in the video player. Devices appear as they answer, usually within a couple of seconds; the search carries on for a few more, for a TV that is still waking up. @@ -407,12 +407,19 @@ or from the player. Every film opened plays on it, and the player opens as its remote: the position shown is the TV's, with play/pause, 30-second jumps and a slider to go anywhere in the film. Every photo opened in the viewer is shown on it, and a slideshow pages the TV along with the screen. Choosing a TV from an -album's bar opens its first photo. On a phone, a film goes on playing silently -on the phone while the TV shows it, and the screen can be turned off. +album's bar opens its first photo. Music plays on it too, with the cover, title +and artist on the screen: the music bar becomes its remote — play, pause, the +slider, previous and next — and the queue moves on when the TV reaches the end +of a track. Choosing the TV in the middle of a song carries it on there; *Stop +casting* carries it on here. On a phone, a film goes on playing silently on the +phone while the TV shows it, and the screen can be turned off, as it can while +music plays on the TV. Photos are sent scaled to the TV's screen, upright, as an ordinary picture. The menus, covers and summaries stay on your phone or computer: the TV shows -what is playing, not the application. +what is playing, not the application. It plays it in the TV's standard cast +player, which shows its own name, *Default Media Receiver*, on the screen; a +player of MeshBay's own is not built. The application decrypts the film and relays it to the TV itself, over your LAN. The TV is not a group member and holds no key — which is also why the relay's @@ -993,8 +1000,8 @@ Better to know now than to go looking for it: - **Hubs do not talk to each other yet.** Everyone in a group needs an account on the same hub. - **Casting reaches Chromecast devices** from the desktop and Android - applications, for films and photos. Music is not cast yet. Support for other - TV protocols is designed but not built. + applications, for films, photos and music. Support for other TV protocols is + designed but not built. - **Some subtitle tracks cannot be shown** — the ones stored as images rather than text, roughly one embedded track in five. Displaying them would need text recognition. |