Chromecast - the new Google TV

I will only buy this when I can use PLEX on it.

Draegan_sl said:

I will only buy this when I can use PLEX on it.

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Technically, you can use plex on it. You just have to watch plex from a casted web browser.

I have a question that might fit this subject. I have a laptop computer that I want to watch Netflix..etc on. I am at work though and thus do not want to use their internet as it is monitored. My cell phone has 4g wifi, but it only goes to 2.5 gig worth of memory before it slows way down. That is fine since it is only 5 extra a month(PCS Mobile) and I can still play online games with it. However if I stream movies like Netflix, I run out of that 2.5 gig pretty fast.

Would this device allow me to watch Netflix from my phone which has unlimited internet? It is only the Wifi that has a memory limitation.

Apparently Google is having a Chromecast SDK hackathon this weekend and the SDK release is expected soonish, at which point presumably we can expect much better support.

target is selling kyocera hydro android phones for $10 this week, normally $79 or $149. I picked up two, they are easy to root and run android 4.0 (no upgrading afaik), but you can run it as a pure android device with the cell antenna turned off and never activated. I currently have one running as a webcam on my dog for the kids, and the other can be used as a remote for chromecast/TV/whatever or anything else that runs on android.

So yeah, I finally got one of these. Got Plex hooked up and running. After literally 5 minutes messing with it, my Boxxee is going in the trash. TIGHT TIGHT TIGHT.

So is this something I should replace my Roku with?

Bought this for the parents for xmas and found a bit of false advertising. When they say you can mirror chrome that is only on pc or mac phones and tablets are not there yet so on those it only works with the apps like youtube or netflix. Kind of disappointed but supposedly this will be fixed in later releases.

Nah bro nah. More of I don't care as much, plus my boxxee was going out anyway. I had to reset the goddamn Netflix on a daily basis, the remote was a piece of shit, it was getting zero support and no updates on the horizon, etc.

I am having an issue and I'm not sure what it is. It appears that when my computer is doing either the indexing or the transcoding for the PMS, the monitor just shuts out and then comes back on after a short period. I haven't really had enough time to 100% verify that is what it is, but just looking at it a few times it seems like that is the pattern. When streaming or updating the library the computer monitor just cuts out and comes back on shortly, it will sometimes do this a few times in sequence. I was immediately thinking power supply of graphics card issue, a friend of mine was thinking possible CPU saturation. Long term I am considering getting a Synology NAS but in the meantime I would like to nail this down. Maybe try changing CPU affinity for PLEX? Would that impact the transcoding(i am thinking so)?

Frenzied Wombat_sl said:

So is this something I should replace my Roku with?

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Not at this point I wouldn't. Roku offers much more content plus in my experience the stream quality wasn't great compared to the roku. Plus there is something convenient about laying on bed and controlling with a remote vs using you phone to switch between different apps. It felt much more cumbersome.

So if anyone else has issues with plex like I did then download something called process lasso. I used that to modify the cpu affinity for the plexnewtranscoder.exe process to not use 2 cores out of the 8 available. Runs smooth now and the transcoding didn't take a hit.