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?
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Hi, I finally found a setup that can be used by my family without hassle and difficult procedures.
So, my final setup, that is working flawlessly is:
. 3 x Chromecasts connected to 3 Samsung TVs
. Main router TP-Link WR1043ND (DD-Wrt firmware) Cable Modem + 1 CC + Ether notebook
. Repeater router using wireless TP-Link MR-3420 (DD-WRT firmware) 2 CCs connect to this
. Core i3 notebook running Plex Server connected to the ethernet port of the main router and an external USB 2 3TB disk.
. My Plex "clients" are Android phones and tablets, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1
This setup can only play videos that have the correct tracks for CC (H.264+AAC).
What I mean is that the Core i3 380m, with 8GB RAM from my notebook lacks the power to encode on the fly, even if is only the audio track being converted, and so I prefer to do the re-encode myself before watching.
Some important points that I had to fix before having it working:
The quality of the Wi-fi signal matters a lot. The bitrate of most HD movies varies between 2000 and 20000 Kbps. Most routers don't go much further than 25 Mbits (even most of the 802.11n) in real life scenarios.
The CC can play mkv and mp4 (not only) but you must have H.264 video track with less than 5 ref frames and AAC 2 ch 48K, 128b.
Other "native" apps like Netflix, Play, Youtube are very good, no stuttering presenting a clear image without any artifacts and very good and easy to use. Youtube depends on the source video.
The available third party apps that support CC have bugs or are in beta stage, AllCast, Avia, LocalCast are some of the ones I have installed.
The exception is Plex, it is a complete package but for now it has some costs.
Plex Client is running in at least 10 android devices, and 5 notebooks throughout the apartment. Not streaming at the same time, obviously but all of them are mostly connected for sure.
So starting with a normal MKV (H.264 + AC3, DTS, DD+) the fastest and secure way to play this movie in CC is to repackage the MKV to MP4 by converting the audio to AAC (ffmpeg) in the process. Using ffmpeg, It will take less than 30 mins. and your movie is ready.
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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 everyone. i have a Chromecast , a samsung galaxy s4 and a 50 inches fullHD tv . My tv is not a smart one so I use the Chromecast 's screen mirroing with My s4 to enjoy fullHD media , play some light games like plants vs zombies , navegate throught web browsers and etc.
We know the Chromecast uses wifi and mobile internet (altough wifi is recommended) and when screen mirroing big games like 1gb size games it doesnt mirror it fluently.
I want to play those big games fluently.
I can buy a nexus player and download the game to its 8gb internal memory but I wanted to know how is the experience when screen mirroing using the nexus player .
Also if I connect My s4 using HDMI to my tv then games (and everything else) would be more fluid . is this really good or just a little bit better?
Finally I heard that the samsung allshare dongle dont use wifi to mirror the screen so the phone (s4 in my case) wont do so much work to mirror and keep online-games running. but only in HD (not fullHD )
Well, this is my doubt , whats the best choice to play fullHD big online games?
(chromecast 's mirroing lags at this)
Samsung Allshare dongle, nexus player (screen mirroing or download its few games available ) or HDMI connection ?
Thanks for your help!!
Using your phone hdmi (mhl) port is what you're looking for.
tried on vizio and sony tvs. tried various hdmi ports on both tvs
I can surf the web viewing the screen on the tv so it appears to sync just fine. But as soon as I try playing a youtube video or a video from KODI, the Kindle freezes.
Videos and KODI play fine on the Kindle when not connected to tv.
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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.