Macast

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using mpv as DLNA media render runing on MacOS

Install

Download link: Macast

usage

After opening this app, a small TV icon will appear in the status bar, and you can push video from DLNA client from the same LAN to your computer.

⚠️ The "~/Library/Application\ Support/Macast" directory will be created to save the configuration information of the application

development

download mpv

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/MacOS

debug

pip install -r requirements.txt
python Macast.py

⚠️ MPV starts slowly the first time you run Macast.py, it needs to wait for a while

package

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

Relevant links

UPnP™ Device Architecture 1.1

python-upnp-ssdp-example