On the latest generation Chromecast with Google TV.
While watching a program on iPlayer and only iPlayer, Ambient mode will trigger every ten minutes.
I've spoken to BBC customer support about 5 times. They've also relayed my emails to the developers.
They swear up and down this is not an issue with their app.
I've spoken to Google support and in the end there was no acceptable resolution besides disabling Ambient mode.
What the hell do you do when no one will claim responsibility?
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From their website (http://www.zediva.com):
"Zediva is a new online movie rental service. Using Zediva, you can watch the newest movies and TV shows available on DVDs.
When you rent a movie on Zediva, you are renting both a DVD and DVD Player in our data center. During the period of the rental, the DVD and the DVD Player can only be used by you.
When you rent a movie from Zediva, you have up to 14 days to complete watching the movie. Each time you rent the movie, you receive control of that DVD for 4 hours.
If you get interrupted while watching a movie or don't want to watch it all at once, you can return to Zediva and rent the movie again without additional charge for up to 14 days. Just return to the movie page and click on "Rent". No movie credits will be deducted from your account after the first rental -- during the free re-rental period.
A special note on long pauses: Your DVD will be automatically returned if you leave it on pause for an hour or more. This is out of consideration to other users who may be waiting to rent the DVD. If your rental is auto-returned, you can re-rent the disc anytime within the free re-rental period (subject to availability). "
Now the bad news: Registration is "temporarily" full.
Now the good news: If you were lucky enough to beat the masses and score a login, this service works great on the gtablet. I rented the movie, "The Town" on my PC/TV combination and watched flawlessly from start to finish, even pausing a few times to accomodate some interruptions. Quality of the video was excellent, no pixelation and no buffering that I noticed. I have a single core 2.2 GHZ processor with 512MB ram and a video card with 1 gig of ram that handled the stream just fine. The next day I attempted to view the movie again on the gtablet (taking advantage of the 14 day rental policy). At first the movie was checked out but the service emailed me when it was available (picked that up on my gtablet) so I immediately went to the site in the stock browser (I am using Vegan b5.1.1) and clicked on the movie title. The system uses a flash control to control the playback. Although I received a warning that the movie was not optimized for mobile device use (which probably would not happen if I switched my browser choice and selected desktop as version), it played back beautifully. A "click" on the full screen option brought it up to near full screen 16:9 display. I watched about 15 minutes of the movie with no pauses and no buffering issues. I am sure my daughter was upstairs using the internet intensely as well so at least for my network no streaming issues. After 15 minutes I turned my attention back to the basketball game at hand and returned the DVD so someone else could watch the movie.
So I would say get on the waiting list and if the MPAA doesn't shut this down, this will be a nice venue for watching movies on the gtablet. Not sure how high of quality the is (HD, 480, 720, 1080?) but the picture on both my TV and gtablet was acceptionally crisp and clear.
This might be to specific or weird, but is there any way to keep Google Play Music in full screen on my TV when I cast it? At the start of a song it goes full screen mode, but after a few seconds it changes to a smaller pic of the album art that keeps moving around the screen. It moves like the screen saver of an early 2000s DVD player and it enrages me.
I want full screen. Please help.
Drives me batty too but I believe it's to prevent screen burn in
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yeah, certainly is to avoid screen burn.
What I did is connect the CCast in my 5.1 receiver and then just leave the TV turned off while casting Google Music
Tried searching everywhere for a my problem. Just bought the CC over the weekend. Brought it home, set it up and everything worked great. However, after watching a few movies via Googel cast on Chrome using the yellow video player, I noticed the screen would dim down in low light scenes and brighten back up in brighter scenes. Same scenario with Plex, Youtube, and Netflix. Anyone else have this issue?
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Tried searching everywhere for a my problem. Just bought the CC over the weekend. Brought it home, set it up and everything worked great. However, after watching a few movies via Googel cast on Chrome using the yellow video player, I noticed the screen would dim down in low light scenes and brighten back up in brighter scenes. Same scenario with Plex, Youtube, and Netflix. Anyone else have this issue?
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That's nothing to do with Chromecast. That's your TVs "feature" called Dynamic Contrast (or similar marketing name). It is probably enabled on HDMI input you are using Chromecast on.
Re: Chromecast fluctuating Brightness
I have a brand new Chromecast device and I am having brightness issues myself but think it is the fact that I have a cheap import TV. overall casting is always much darker than on my pc on all 3 HDMI ports and my TV has no Dynamic Contrast setting. It does have a dynamic color setting but all that does is add vibrance and sharpness and I leave that off as it makes movies look unnatural.
Even when I cast from my Phone or Tablet the image is darker and there are blues in the darker areas making the image beyond ugly if I turn up the brightness/contrast on my TV.
I hope I can get the cash together for a more expensive TV as I think it is the only way to get a decent image when casting. It would be good if the chromecast extension and the chromecast app had a brightness/contrast/gamma settings in their options to counteract this glitch on cheaper TV's (and cheaper than a new TV)
P.s. Sorry for necroing but this post shows that brightness issues are still happening to this day.
I stream a lot with TF701T. Currently it has the latest version of CM-nightly. But its always been an issue with this tablet.
Certain apps will get really choppy when playing at full-HD. Most are fine.
e.g.
MLB.tv app, I stream full HD. Everything is great.
NHL.tv app, as soon as it hits HD it stutters like crazy. (Its not internet speed related. I live alone with excellent internet and wifi.) NHL.tv is an app I prefer to be low-res and pixelated and smooth, but that only lasts the first 4 seconds after it starts. I usually just send NHL.tv to chromecast anyway, where it plays fine. But I don't always want to use chromecast either.
Last night, I watched the MLB Blue Jays/Orioles game on the TBS app. Everything was great.
Today, I'm trying to watch on the ESPN app, everything is really choppy... it happens as soon as it hits HD, or max quality.
Anything that isn't live works perfectly fine... Netflix, Youtube, CW, any TV channel app with day old content.
Not really sure what's causing it... or even if I knew, if there would be a way to limit bandwidth, resolution, frames per second.
Thank you
I have a S9+ I want to use as a helmet cam for sports (I have another main phone, don't worry) and I have it set to 1080P 60FPS but my only problem is Samsung has limited it to film for only 10 minutes at a time for that and then it stops. I'm not going to be able to stop in the middle of sports and take off the helmet to press record again. This is where tasker comes into play. I just have no idea how to use it. How do I set it up to where it'll automatically record again once those 10 minutes are up? Thank you!