On 07/28/15 18:41, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:
If you are using an application which is chromecast enabled, such as NetFlix or many of the chromecast enabled Android apps, then yes the traffic will be switched/configured to come from the source and go directly to the chromecast dongle.
Yes, it seems more complicated than I thought; I found when I started casting from my Android phone I could switch off the phone and the cast continued, so it must be going directly from router to TV. In fact I had to switch off the TV to break the connection. But this was using a filmon app on the phone which I'm sure is chromecast-enabled as you say.
I use the LiveNow!TV app which is what I think you are using. It has built-in support for ChromeCast. For apps on the Android which don't have built-in your choice is to use ChromeCast's screencast or Screencasting to a SMARTtv. In those later cases there is the "reflecting" going on which would have an effect on performance.
So the difference in quality between Fedora-casting and Windows-casting may arise from different chromecast plugins for google chrome? But in both cases I am able to break the connection from the laptop.
Yes. See above.
This is the reason I can't cast Netflix from my Android Tablet to my TV. While my tablet is using a DNS proxy to redirect traffic to my VPN provider when casting the Netflix app notifies Netflix to switch but in the process my real IP address is exposed and Netflix then "knows" I'm not in the US. (I have a Roku to, so no worries...and there are other ways I could use the chromecast if I wanted to take a few extra steps).
That's interesting, and relevant in my case as I thought of subscribing to a VPN server in the UK as most UK online TV services seem to be restricted to users believed to be in the UK.
There would be no problem if I were to be using a pure VPN connect established by my tablet or by my router. It is only a DNS proxy situation that doesn't work with Chromecast. I could use DNS proxy + screencast but that brings in the performance issue which may be a problem with a tablet.
I'm just too lazy to create the VPN connection on my tablet..2 extra touches...when I can just use my Roku. I sometimes think the extra touches may be worth it since the Netflix interface of Roku is "minimal".
I suspect my broadband speed (in central Italy) of 6.6 Mbps is on the borderline for this use, though that may be nonsense.
Oh, BTW, I just got my bill and I actually have 20Mb/s download speed.
Can you tell from your bill? Mine says "up to 40Mb/s", but when I asked my ISP said he was surprised my speed was so high!
Yes. It is 20, I'd just forgotten since I switched carriers about 2 years ago. I tested it and am getting the download speed I'm paying for. No trouble to stream simultaneously several sources.