I've had no problems with wifi and my Android devices watching video
streams. I was just given an NVidia Shield which is like a little game
handheld console running Android. MPEG-4 displays fine at 3 mbps for
720p. I've encoded TV shows 720p at 900 kbps using MPEG-4 and it still
looked acceptable. Broadcast MPEG-2 transport streams are 38 mbps for
1080i.
On 09/23/2013 04:35 PM, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com wrote:
When our DirecTV receiver was connected to the Internet with a WiFi
device, video streaming to the iPads was not very robust. When I
discovered that there's also a wired device available, I ran Cat 5
down to the living room, and now the streaming works much better. And,
one of the webcams was wireless until I moved the wireless router and
cut it back to 25% power; the new config put the webcam out of range
of the router, so I hooked up the cat 5 cable going out to the garage;
now the webcam works much better. With computers connecting to the
wireless router's USB NAS drive, transfers are vastly quicker over Cat
5 than WiFi, and when playing video off the NAS, wired doesn't have
the occasional video glitches like wireless does. Except for the
Macbook, everything that can hook up with ethernet is connected with
it. The iPads, my phone, and the Macbook are now the only devices
using WiFi.
As wonderful as it is to have all these nifty wireless devices, wired
ethernet is a vastly superior network technology. That said, if yer
gonna go wireless, N routers are the only way to go. They're much
faster, and they have better range.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com>
wrote:
Originally AV enthusiasts found that wifi wasn't the way to go with
streaming video. For one thing with .11G someone running out to the
kitchen to microwave some popcorn could shut the stream down. These
days even with .11G I don't get knocked off my wifi streams. I'd like
to have an N router but U-Verse only has G routers (cheapskates)
though I think the gateway you get for video may be N.
I wanted N to install a camera facing my front door so I could see who
was at the door while working. The one I was looking at requires N.
It was cheaper to put up a $3 "No Soliciting" sign. Works for me.
On 09/23/2013 12:25 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
Yes, I'm all in favor of using cables for moving data and
that's why I use gigabyte ethernet on my main workstation
to connect with Rita's workstation when I want to move
large video files. My external drive for backup is connected
to my workstation with eSata.
What I am trying to do is install a home media delivery
system that everyone in the family can access without
cables running on the floor to each room.
So far, I have not had a big problem with the Wi-Fi tuned
in to Netflix - there's probably going to be some buffering
on videos, but so far I can live with it.
Access to my mp3 music files with the Wi-Fi has not been
a problem.
So, I've got the broadband at 14 bps into the Motorola
Surfer, the wireless NAS on RAID, the headless Windows
Home Server, the smart BD player, the Roku, WD Live,
Chromecast, and an Ultra Book with wireless N.
Wireless -now that's better!
On 9/21/2013 8:39 AM, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com
<mailto:j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I deleted my first response to this because my mind was glomming
onto a recent article in the Source about using Chromecast with
tablets or phones, which are, themselves, crude interfaces to the
Internet. If used with a real computer, I can see how Chromecast is
handy for playing Internet content on a TV, but I would still opt
for sending the video and audio from my Macbook over cables, which
are far more robust and reliable than WiFi.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>,
<fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com>
<mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
So, what is Chromecast?
Broadcast to your TV with the Chrome browser on your laptop computer.
Anything you see on your computer screen, you can cast it to your big
screen TV. That way you can see your YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, and
Amazon. And you can subscribe to Google Channels.
Get rid of cable! Did I tell you that the Chromcast is $35.00?
You plug in the Chromecast dongle using HDMI, Then you install the
Mozilla Chrome browser on your laptop. After you complete a short setup
on the internet you can connect and cast via your home Wi-Fi network.
Casting from my Ultra Book:
Chromecast dongle on HDMI2:
