Posts made by JeffMD

Unless it is completely broken, it shouldn't be taking battery power when not in use. Keep in mind though any time it is sending video to a tv, it is "in use". Its not like netflix and youtube where it just sends a link and you can go away.

There is no way for videostream to work with non chromecast streamers "up front" because they use their own front ends. However there are android apps for the android streamers to make it look like a chromecast.

afaik videostream is chromecast only. Using an app that makes android devices look like a chromecast are still bound by chromecast profiles, thus no hevc support.

Is this when you are playing a movie? Videostream will transcode videos that won't natively play on chromecast, this is very cpu intensive.

No related to the size, but rather a bad encode. Usually seeking issues are related to the player requiring a keyframe to go to. If your video was made with very few keyframes then moving from one to the next may span many minutes. Try another copy of the movie? If it is something you ripped, use another program to rip it.

Does it NOT work? Is it videostream that requires internet? Cause chromecast shouldn't.

No, there is no way to synch the 2 streams between the pc and the chromecast. Remember the player is the chromecast, not your browser app. You would better off be asking how can I make my chromecast output audio to my pc speakers.

Why are you compressing your movies in rar? The movies are already compressed. RARing them is redundant.

chromecast uses a large buffer, there is no means of synching the audio with the video on the chromecast.

The video file is bad and should be re encoded.

I have no idea what you are asking.

As much as $25 for a lifetime sounds like a good deal, the app nore the team has shown very little indication that they will be around that long. These forums are completely dead and despite many issues as reported by the google reviews there seems to be no attempt at fixing them. I expect any day now that the app will break and I will have to go ahead with plexing my entire anime collection instead of keeping it on a network drive.

img/iso files are not a video file. They are images of a cd/dvd. Open them up with something like Daemon tools lite and copy the video files off it.

Correct, the new chromecast had the smallest of cpu upgrades. Google does not plan to expand the capabilities of the chromecast beyond a simple h264 streamer. This will probably change when far more 2k/4k content becomes available and designing a new chromecast around the makes business sense.

Not going to happen. due to buffering on the chromecast, the player has no idea what part of the video is currently being played back. This would make it impossible to synch the audio on the pc and the video on the chromecast.

what are the specs of the computer you are using for playback? and are they playing back 720 or 1080p? If videostream needs to convert the videos because chromecast can't play the video stream natively, it could be choking on that.

That is very strange. Do you know if there is any power savings going into effect when you leave the computer alone for 15 minutes? The only other thing I can think of is a memory leak, if the stream is being stranded in RAM then the constants bitrate of it would lead to the 15 minute consistency where the system runs out of memory.

@etsenake Does changing the quality setting, forcing the app to transcode, fix it?

I take it the video you are playing has an ac3 stream, and is not DTS or AAC?

The biggest problem with his is lag. Due to network latency and buffering, when the laptop sends out the video and that video actually gets played back on the screen is a delay of hundreds of /ms to even whole seconds. Go ahead and cast a tab... now play a movie in that tab or select a block of text and time how long it takes before your tv shos the result.

Now try and synch an audio stream on the pc side with the video stream showing on your tv. Doesn't work to well.