pychromecast 10.0 introduced some [breaking changes](https://github.com/home-assistant-libs/pychromecast/pull/556/files)
in the declaration of the Chromecast object -
namely, the `device` attribute has been renamed to
`cast_info`. The code of ChromecastPlugin has been
updated to guarantee compatibility in both cases.
Newer versions of python-vlc have apparently
removed the `event.u` union object from the
events dispatched by the player, resulting in
player callback failures.
The occurrences of `event.u` have therefore
been replaced with the player methods to
correctly retrieve the current state.
- Better synchronization with the player upon `play` request - wait until the play started event is received before returning the status
- DBus exceptions should be caught and handled in the status call
- Removed replication of logic between media.get_youtube_url (action) and media.get_youtube_video_url (internal method)
- Added differentiation between MediaPlayEvent and MediaResumeEvent
- Support for custom PopcornTime API mirror/base URL.
- Full support for TV series search.
- Fixed torrent search (now using a different PopcornTime API mirror).
- Migrated SASS engine from `node-sass` (currently deprecated and broken on Node 16) to `sass`.
- Fixed alignment of Z-Wave UI header on Chrome/Webkit.
For some reason, vlc event handlers are not re-entrant (https://github.com/oaubert/python-vlc/issues/44#issuecomment-378520074).
This means that the vlc API can't be used from an event handler,
and that an event handler that reacts to stop/end-of-stream by
releasing the player and the vlc instance will likely get stuck
and the app may eventually die with SIGSEGV.
Because of this design limitation on the vlc side, the plugin has
to run another thread in the main app that monitors the stop event
set by the event handler and releases the resources appropriately.
On newer versions of pychromecast get_chromecasts returns
a tuple (devices, browser_service) instead of a list. The
software should be robust enough with both older and newer
versions of pychromecast.
