For a few days already, I can’t cast my movies to my Chromecast. It says “unable to play media”. The media is there and it works on my phone, but it won’t cast. It’s not a problem with the Chromecast, as it works from my wife’s phone and it works with all other casting apps. My phone is the OnePlus 5.
Trying to cast from Plex on Android to Chromecast: “Unable to play media”
Trying to cast using the chromecast button in Plex web on Windows: “There was an unexpected error during playback. Please visit our forums if you continue to experience problems.”
Using Chrome to cast (the browser feature, not the Plex Web feature) works.
The issue is the same for all video files, including ones that were fine 3 days ago
Playing on Plex on Android works fine
Playing in Chrome on Windows works fine
Casting from other apps (Netflix, YouTube) to Chromecast works fine
Things I tried:
Restart Plex media server
Restart Windows
Restart Android
Plex on Android: 7.24.3.13840
Plex web: 4.14.2
Plex on Windows: 1.8.1.4139
Casting to chromecast worked fine until last Tuesday. I can not cast from any of my android devices, with error “Unable to play media”.
I can cast my plex media from a browser without any issues. I can also use my smart tv’s build in plex player, so the problem is not my media or my plex server, it is the android plex client.
The same here. I already have a post regarding this problem, but I am nothing the wiser. The strangest thing is that I can pair with the Chromecast, but it Just doesn’t play. And the second thing is that I can’t play any of my foto’s on the android device it self, but it does show them in the Plex screen saver on the Chromecast.
Install download Plex Server straight overtop of the existing installation.
After I installed it, it was running 1.18.3.2156 which is earlier version than what was installed…weird, but I can now cast from my Android to Chromecast.
Already running the current version of PMS. I also did do a full reinstall, which fixed one problem, but the “media not found” problem remains when trying to cast from newer Android apps (local play is fine, older apps work fine, too).