However, to get those features, you’d need to jump up to the NVIDIA Shield or the Roku Ultra.Īt the time he did the review, the Chromecast couldn’t play Dolby Vision. Like most Plex clients, the Chromecast with Google TV has no support for Dolby Atmos, or a true passthrough. If you’re serious about using Plex on a daily basis, I highly recommend subscribing to his channel. I’ve highlighted a few things he discovered, and also included my thoughts below. There’s no benchmark that will accurately test every scenario, so a lot depends on your personal setup.īite My Bits did an amazing review of several popular Plex clients, including the Chromecast with Google TV. Performance is subjective, especially on media players. Plex Performance on the Chromecast with Google TV Still, live TV performance is more than acceptable over Wi-Fi. Here’s where a gigabit Ethernet connection would help, but, out-of-the-box, the Chromecast with Google TV only connects via Wi-Fi.Īn Ethernet adapter is available through Google, but at $20, that puts the Chromecast in a higher price bracket, and there are better options once you get to that level. That part depends largely on your home network and Internet speed. Once the video starts, it takes a few seconds for Plex to figure out the best resolution. The app will crash and restart and you can try again.Navigation was pretty smooth, and I honestly didn’t find any more delay with the Chromecast than I did with any other streaming client. And hope the change of audio/subtile stuck or else try again. You need to press back and go back to the show and start the correct episode again. When you press on the episode you want to play (again) the next episode will play anyway. Playback will stop, as if you just watched the entire episode, and the 10 second count down to play the next episode will start. Every client needs to set this setting to 'Always' for it to work.Ĭhanging audio channel or downloading subtitle when playing tv shows result in these three situations at random. It gives the user no explanation about what just happened. The file won't play and the app will crash and restart. I'm normally not one to complain, but there are several annoying issues that seem to go unsolved for quit a while now.Īndroid TV App - updated to the latest version.ĭVD rips with Vobsub subtitles won't play when Settings/Video/BurnSubtitles is set to 'Automatic'.

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