Chromecast

[cat6man]

Originally Posted by PiX64

that right there makes me unhappy.

chill........read the update...........false alarm it seems

[panteragstk]

Yep. They killed it pretty quick. Still a very new product that I'm sure we'll see some custom firmware for that will do what we want. Just not yet.

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by cat6man

chill........read the update...........false alarm it seems

Yep, just read the article. Seems that they want to wait until the production SDK is out. Makes more sense now. Thanks.

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by cat6man

chill........read the update...........false alarm it seems

phew!

[Deacon Crusher]

Do folks actually think that netflix has instituted custom transcoding for streams going to chromecast or have they just added the logic that allows a button that says don't play to the IP I'm interacting with, play on this other IP?

If the latter, then how about adding that logic to the sage web ui. Browse the sage recordings on your smartphone or computer and then cast them to the chromecast module on the TV you want them on?

Plex could add this same functionality.

Basically, seems like once the SDK is out anyone should be able to add chromecast logic to video file playback lists in web browsers. Then if you browse your list of data from a web browser, then the source/server of that web page can hand the data for playback to the chromecast of your choice.

Or at least I think that's how it works. Does that sound right to folks or...?

Thanks

[drewg]

Does anybody know if it is possible to optimize chromecast's casting of tabs? Perhaps via some black magic, like dshow filters, etc? (sorry, i'm mainly a linux guy).

The story is that I just got a chromecast. My main purpose for getting it was to be able to watch NFL Rewind (flash streaming) on my TV via chromecast without being tied to an HDMI cable. The problem is that if I cast in any decent quality (720p ), the video on the TV is choppy, and the laptop (win7, core i5-2520M) is at 100% CPU across all cores according to task manager. I have the same results with a linux laptop (which is why I tried the win7 laptop).

I'm just wondering if there is some video encoding / decoding lib that I need. This is a fresh win7 SP1 install on a thinkpad T520, with no 3rd party software installed except Lenovo shovelware & chrome. It does have an nvidia graphics chip, so I'd think that something could be offloaded to that (which is why I was hoping this laptop would work better).

Thanks,

Drew

PS: I've also tried it docked, so that it is using wired ethernet to the router/wireless base station, and it has a power profile allowing for max performance.

[LWM4P]

I am not an expert in decoders etc... but I have messed around with it a bit and had no luck. It seems that the only ones that really work for anything serious are the built in one, like Netflix, hulu plus, etc...