Hi all,
seems very likely to me that the chromecast is blocking some websites from being able to stream. (mostly ones on the other side of the law)
form chrome on several different devices, i can cast youtube and netflix no issues and I can mirror my tab (although laggy) with no issues but trying to cast from the website itself will appear to connect, load for 2-3 seconds then disconnect the cast. I am almost positive this is an intentional block by Google as its happening to 20 or so websites I have tested.
Has anyone else experienced this? and blocking google dns makes no difference either.
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Hello,
Ive just got my Chromecast from Zavvi.com and got it all set up and connected to the wifi. I am ready to cast but am having some issues.
I cant get any videos or sound to come out from it
When I try to send a youtube video, it switches to that video, tells me what it is but the video doesnt play, simply displaying a black screen.
When I go to play music, it goes to tell me I am in play music but I cant hear anything.
When I go to play videos, same thing. Says I want to watch transformers - but then just displays a black screen.
I have also tried casting from my chrome tab, which works fine - but as soon as you go to youtube.com within your chrome tab and try to cast it... guess what... chromecast is aware of the film you have chosen to watch, but it doesnt actually play it.
I have it updated, devices are as follows:
Nexus 5
BT homehub 5
Acer laptop running latest chrome browser
Chromecast using latest firmware - it updated itself
The only thing it does flawlessly so far is casting from a chrome tab.
Iain
When you tab-cast from Chrome on your desktop, the video stream is being received by your computer and re-transmitted to Chromecast over your local network. But when you send a Youtube video to the Chromecast, it is trying to receive the stream directly, which fails in your case. Answer is obvious: the Chromecast does not have full access to the internet. Something in your router or network configuration is blocking it, but not blocking your computer.
DJames1 said:
Thanks for the reply. When you tab-cast from Chrome on your desktop, the video stream is being received by your computer and re-transmitted to Chromecast over your local network. But when you send a Youtube video to the Chromecast, it is trying to receive the stream directly, which fails in your case. Answer is obvious: the Chromecast does not have full access to the internet. Something in your router or network configuration is blocking it, but not blocking your computer.
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I read on another forum, that UPnP and IGMP multicast is required at the router level for Chromecast to work. And that BT's new homehub 5 doesn't support this?
Is this true,would this be a likely cause?
Why would BT output a new router that didn't have functionality of old routers?
Any other ideas what might be the cause? The chromecast thinks it is online - it doesnt seem to say it isnt.
Iain
All of the sudden cast tab stopped working. When ever i click the cast tab icon in Chrome the tv screen turns black for about 10 seconds and the goes back to the Chromecast screen, the icon on Chrome turns orange, "unable to cast, check network or try again". Netflix and YouTube works fine from Chrome, as well as iPad. Any ideas?
I can't get BBC iPlayer to work either, but I think this is a different issue, perhaps I have to wait for an Eureka ROM update there.
Rooted chromecast
Eureka ROM build 15250.001
open wrt router
unlocater
macbook
Thanx
maxnetDK said:
All of the sudden cast tab stopped working. When ever i click the cast tab icon in Chrome the tv screen turns black for about 10 seconds and the goes back to the Chromecast screen, the icon on Chrome turns orange, "unable to cast, check network or try again". Netflix and YouTube works fine from Chrome, as well as iPad. Any ideas?
I can't get BBC iPlayer to work either, but I think this is a different issue, perhaps I have to wait for an Eureka ROM update there
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Failure to cast tab/desktop from PC when other methods work is usually one of
Network location setting (needs to be Home/Private or Domain/Work, not Public or Unknown as those block many ports)
Conflicting Chrome extension
Antivirus
Firewall
On rare occasion, a router that does not pass packets between wired and wireless segments, if the PC is on wired connection
bhiga said:
Failure to cast tab/desktop from PC when other methods work is usually one of
Network location setting (needs to be Home/Private or Domain/Work, not Public or Unknown as those block many ports)
Conflicting Chrome extension
Antivirus
Firewall
On rare occasion, a router that does not pass packets between wired and wireless segments, if the PC is on wired connection
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Tried all above, didn't help. Now I installed Chrome Canary,, cast tab work on it, not on regular chrome.
I cannot cast anything without it buffering on my chromecast anymore.
Youtube/Netflix can play but resolution is of lowest quality (probably because its built in), but casting tab from web browser will not work at all. At first I thought my internet speed was slow, but I do a speed test most days (on mac) and get an average of 30mpbs-35mbps. Mobile speed I get is 5mbps. Funnily enough I play Netflix through phone and it plays but like I said, quality is compromised. My other tv which is a smart tv (no Chromecast) plays Netflix/Youtube of the full 1080p and no lagging. So which leads me to believe that there is a problem with the Chromecast itself?
My only other option is to see if it works on the smart tv, but then it defeats the purpose of having a smart tv. And I will be without smart tv/chromecast in the bedroom.
Any advice please?
yep, I'm finding this too. I ended up hooking my laptop up via hdmi because casting was so poor. Really low resolution and it would lose connection (black tv screen, laptop still playing) for 3-4 seconds, every 15 minutes or so.
I'm very quickly losing patience with the CC.
After 3 chromecast (of which 1 returned) and trying 2 new routers specifically for making cc work I couldn't find any permanent solution. Where any phone or tablet works fine for streaming netflix, plex, etc, cc would struggle, I gave up, it's useless. Btw, the routers I tried for the past year are netgear r6200, Linksys ea6500 and currently netgear r7000.
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Do you try speed4cast? You can see if the problem is from internet or from CC. Reboot router, enable upnp on the router and look for new update by rebooting CC.
If nothing works, make a factory reset and try to cast. If not, return the device.
I started having this problem in the last week, and I haven't found any solutions here or elsewhere on the internet.
I have multiple chromecasts. One of the old USB stick looking ones and a few of the newer round ones. I've used them for years with a mediatomb server to stream local content to them, and it has typically worked pretty well. Now they've started working really flaky. They'll either drop connection entirely or skip to the next video on the mediatomb server after about 30 minutes of playback. The server is a desktop with wired gigabit ethernet to my router. The chromecasts are all using wifi. I haven't changed the configuration of anything in ages.
The first time I noticed it a movie stopped that my wife had cast using some app (I forget what it is called) from her iphone. I power cycled my router and the chromecast, then cast it from my android using Localcast with similar results. Playback kept stopping after 20 - 30 minutes. I factory reset that chromecast and set it up again, same results. I tried a different chromecast, same results. I set up mediatomb on my laptop to try a different server, same results. I tried ushare and rygel for some other dlna servers on the laptop, same results. Netflix, HBO Go and services like that still seem fine, but these chromecasts just refuse to work right with local dlna servers anymore.
I don't know much about troubleshooting these little buggers aside from all the resetting and swapping stuff I've tried. Previously they always just worked. Is there anyway to get any logs off these things in an unmodified state? Anyone else seen anything like this recently? I'm very suspicious that a chromecast firmware update might have started this behavior, since it came out of nowhere and I've changed nothing on the equipment I control.
Can anyone cast screen using Chromecast? Used to be able to do that with several other devices. But on this device, I get msg that screen not optimized for Chromecast. I can cast videos from different apps, but can't cast the phone screen anymore.
Please check and let me know what you're experiencing.
Tried right now and it works. Buggy, but it works. And with buggy I mean 1 out of 3 or 4 times I cast, it ends after a few seconds with a "casting has ended" for no reason. But when it does work, it goes for hours with no problems...
Odd. Screen casting using an Xperia X Compact (with its slower processor and less RAM) is fine, but on the XZ1C it disconnects or freezes nearly every time. I have found a workaround, however. The app "Web Video Caster" works reliably, and can access the full storage, including an SD card, using a built-in file explorer. Offers subtitle search and can play everything I have thrown at it so far.
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Can anyone cast screen using Chromecast? Used to be able to do that with several other devices. But on this device, I get msg that screen not optimized for Chromecast. I can cast videos from different apps, but can't cast the phone screen anymore.
Please check and let me know what you're experiencing.
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Chromecast works perfect for me.
But I have read that the Chromecast dongle needs excellent wifi to work properly, ideally within ten foot of a fast router.
@Didgesteve
It's curious how I've done everything short of completely resetting the phone, including updating firmware on both phone and Chromecast, and the screen cast connection is almost never maintained for more than a few seconds, if it connects at all to begin with. However, through a 3rd party application, as I indicated above, the connection is reliable, as is also the case for all connections (including the built-in screen casting) on the Xperia X compact..
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@Didgesteve
It's curious how I've done everything short of completely resetting the phone, including updating firmware on both phone and Chromecast, and the screen cast connection is almost never maintained for more than a few seconds, if it connects at all to begin with. However, through a 3rd party application, as I indicated above, the connection is reliable, as is also the case for all connections (including the built-in screen casting) on the Xperia X compact..
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Have you tried the Chromecast in another enviroment, different wifi setup?
Are there any power cables or transformers near the back of the TV? The ariel for the TV may be built into the frame, whilst the Chromecast might suffer being lumped next to all the power connectors at the back.
Try sending it back for a replacement, you might have a duff unit.