chromecast: Fedora vs Windows

[Timothy Murphy]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 13:43 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Sadly, I find that chromecast (under google chrome) performs much
>> better
>> under Windows 7 than under Fedora-22 (on the same laptop).
>> Under Fedora the reception is very jumpy.
>> Admittedly this is with a rather low - 6.5Mb/s - internet speed.
>> 
>> I wonder if this is a common experience?
> 
> Doing what exactly? AFAIK Chromecast connects directly to the Internet
> for supported applications (e.g. Netflix), so the OS on your computer
> shouldn't be an issue. If you mean sending web video from your desktop
> then of course that's a different matter, but there are a lot of
> variables (browser, codec support etc.) that aren't related to
> Chromecast.

I was watching live TV online, running google chrome on my laptop,
first under Fedora-22 and then under Windows 7 (through filmon.com)
using chromecast to cast the program onto a Samsung TV (series 6).

My laptop is linked to a router by WiFi, and thence to a CentOS-7 server,
and finally to the internet.

You seem to suggest that the chromecast connects the TV 
directly to the router once the connection is established?
That seems plausible, but doesn't explain the difference in quality.

I just tried using a Samsung Galaxy phone in place of the laptop
to cast the same online TV program to the TV,
and found this was actually even better than Windows.
So I'd have to say Android wins the 3-way race.

I suspect my broadband speed (in central Italy) of 6.6 Mbps
is on the borderline for this use, though that may be nonsense.


-- 
Timothy Murphy  
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin