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Amazon Fire TV v Chromecast

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  • Terry98
    Terry98 Posts: 1,155 Forumite
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    ringo_24601 wrote: »
    I can cast/stream videos from my Samsung Galaxy S3 using an app; works quite nice with mp4s. I think it can also grab the files from my NAS using the same app, but i've not tried that yet.

    It was suspiciously easy too. Not quite as easy as DNLA (since that's built into my phones video player, and my smart TV) but it means I can use the ChromeCast to stream films to non-smart TVs wirelessly.

    I am trying to get my head round all this.

    My TV has DLNA so I have been trying to stream media to it from my desktop using Servioo. I can also steam the media to my android smart phone using an app to connect to the Servioo media server.

    It's not as easy as I first thought as the TV and smart phone will not play certain media files so you have to add software like VLC and other codecs to Servioo. Hopefully I will sort that out in a few days and then move on to Chromecast for the other non-smart tv.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
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    The app i use is called 'LocalCast' to send mp4s from my phone to Chromecast

    To send from my PC to my TV, i use.. well, i click 'Play To' and it just works. I've got Windows 8 on my PC and i think it's built in.

    The easiest thing is just to put stuff on my NAS; which is DLNA compliant. Then my smart TV can just pick stuff off there easily
  • Terry98
    Terry98 Posts: 1,155 Forumite
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    ringo_24601 wrote: »
    The app i use is called 'LocalCast' to send mp4s from my phone to Chromecast

    To send from my PC to my TV, i use.. well, i click 'Play To' and it just works. I've got Windows 8 on my PC and i think it's built in.

    The easiest thing is just to put stuff on my NAS; which is DLNA compliant. Then my smart TV can just pick stuff off there easily

    I am using Windows 7. From what you say it appears Win8 handles this much better! My video files are a mixture of mts,mkv,avi and mp4 so it looks like I may have to rework some of them if I don't use VLC.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
    Holiday Haggler
    What about using Plex?
  • Terry98
    Terry98 Posts: 1,155 Forumite
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    ringo_24601 wrote: »
    What about using Plex?

    Thanks. I will have a look at it.
  • pepdavies
    pepdavies Posts: 444 Forumite
    I bought a Chromecast today. Seems pretty nice so far. I think it has a lot of potential in the future, even if it doesn't do a lot now.
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