I have a .mp4 and a .srt for English subtitles. I would like to play my video and cast it to Chromecast. What software should I use?

On Google Chrome, I am able to Chromecast it but the subtitles are not displayed.

On VLC the subtitles are displayed but I could not find a cast option.

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Chromecast has these restrictions:

Your subtitle resources must implement CORS.

• TTML - Timed Text Markup Language
• WebVTT - Web Video Text Tracks
• CEA-608/708

None of the regular players supports it.

You can use castnow. It is a 3rd party tool, not available in the repositories and it is a command line player. You can do it like this:

 castnow --address '192.168.1.X' {file} --subtitles {subs}

Installation requires npm so:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nodejs npm 

and

sudo npm install -g castnow

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