I received my chrome cast from Google. After watching You Tube via my Note 2 on my HD tv, I try to switch to regular TV on HDMI 4. It would not switch to regular tv. So I had to reset the FIOS receiver which brought the tv back. This happened again today. I have a Sony HD tv.
Also, how do i turn off chrome cast.
Have you tried turning off CEC? This is what allows HDMI devices to tell your TV to turn to the right input (if you on standard TV on HDMI 1 and chromecast is HDMI 3 it'll automatically change input when you cast content)
Along with Chromecast, I also got the Roku. But if Screen Mirroring is coming to the Fire TV, I might have to return the Roku.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/08/allcast-mirroring-fire-tv/
I'd like to be able to watch live TV on my Nook HD+ (Cyanogenmod 10.2.1), after all it's portable, wireless and has more pixels than my 32" telly. Internet streams (BBC iPlayer, ITV Player) have terrible compression artifacts. Broadcasts received through a roof-top aerial offer substantially better quality. So I have got a USB dvb-t/dvb-t2 tuner plugged into my aerial and an old laptop. Using this and VLC, I can receive Freeview SD and HD multiplexs and stream the selected TV channel over my LAN.
The Nook HD+ can play network streamed videos, using either XBMC or MX Player. While this works well for the SD channels, the tablet won't play the HD channels. This is a Nook specific problem; because the same setup can stream to a RapsberryPi with Openelec and it plays the HD okay. So the Nook is trying to play the HD streamed TV channels using software decoding and naturally doesn't have the CPU power to manage.
Which leads to the question, why won't the hardware decoder accept the stream? MPEG2-ts, 1080i, h.264 video and aac audio, these shouldn't be a problem. What is it about the broadcast signal that is tripping up the Nook's GPU? Is there a workaround?
Inadvertently fixed it seems, live streaming from dvb-t2 usb tuner is working for me now. I've got h/w+ decoding in MX Player and h/w decoding in DICE Player. Hurrah, objective accomplished, from aerial to tablet, my Nook HD+ can play broadcast Freeview HD channels.
How has you connected your usb tv receiver to your nook hd ? my nook hd has no usb port.
Wifi. I did wonder about using the USBhost switcher app (and a USB cable adapter), but the real problem was plugging the tuner into a convenient aerial outlet, and conversely the huge benefit of being wireless.
These day I'm using a Raspberry Pi rather than a old laptop as the server. TV tuner plugs into a Raspberry Pi, running Tvheadend/Openelec to receive and stream the channels, which connects by ethernet cable to a router. Kodi 14.2 on the HD+ receives the stream by wifi and plays it, just need to configure with the IP address of the Pi.
I gave up on the HD broadcasts though, stuttering motion proved to be more annoying than SD fuzziness while watching live sport. I did wonder if the Nook's hardware decoder was trying to play 50hz broadcasts at 60hz.
hi guys ,
I just noticed, the video quality of chrome cast (gen 2) is far more superior from my laptop using win 10 Netflix app, via hdmi out 1080p screen. except sound, i get 5.1 dd from win 10 and stereo from chromecast.
my laptop is 2nd gen i7 with Nvidia 525m.
I m wondering is this true?
does chrome cast video quality is better than a laptop? with these specs?
Hi!
My wife is an Apple person and I'm trying to help her so she can watch her videos that are stored on a USB stick connected to the router on the TV.
The setup:
Asus AC86U with an 128GB USB stick (ext2)
old Panasonic plasma TV with Chromecast
I want an app on her iPhone/iPad that can access the videos on USB stick connected to the router and then cast it to the Chromecast connected to the TV with subtitle support. I have tried with VLC on her iPhone, but there's a known bug when the iPhone screen turns off, the streaming stops.
I'm currently trying the same thing for me but on an Galaxy S7, if anyone has some experience there, It seems like VLC can't use subtitles when trying to do this and I've tried LocalCast, but it's quite buggy.