For people who like to watch with subtitles, VLC currently doesn't support streaming to chromecast with SRT subtitles.. There are several issues for it and I believe support is slated for the next major version of Chromecast, but not sure when that will be. The typical "workaround" is to reencode the video file to include the subtitles directly, but that sounded like too much work, so I hacked together a static... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Videojs is superior to basically everything. It's also open source... Source: about 1 year ago

Another option is looking at https://videojs.com/ with the Vimeo video file links. Source: about 1 year ago

I am woring with HTML - I managed to download a (m3u8) video. By inspecting the webpage (videojs.com). Source: over 1 year ago

Now, to display the HLS stream to viewers, we’ll use HLS.js, which we installed earlier. For more UI customizations, you can check out Video.js, which uses HLS.js internally. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

If it's just for music and you dig the look of TUI apps then musikcube has built-in server functionality. You install it on both the server and clients but keep the library on the server. It's light and works well, including for giant collections. There's apparently an android app too, musikdroid, but I haven't tried it. I haven't tried the windows or mac client apps either, so I can't vouch for any of them, but... Source: over 1 year ago

VLC can be used to play a file from the command line, but there is no user interface. Players like cmus and musikcube have a text based interface and library management. Source: over 1 year ago

I use musikcube - terminal based, cross platform, just plays tunes. https://musikcube.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Dont know about the rest but the top left music player looks like musikcube with a skin on it. https://musikcube.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago

I use Musikcube. It has an Android app that can stream and function as a remote too. I tried a lot of the other commonly-recommended music streaming softwares here and what set this apart is how much easier getting Musikcube is to get running. Source: about 2 years ago