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We use Plex and while I used to love it, I get constant stalls when playing on Chromecast or Apple TV for months now. It requires me to disconnect and reconnec
by bhouston 10y ago
We use Plex and while I used to love it, I get constant stalls when playing on Chromecast or Apple TV for months now. It requires me to disconnect and reconnect Plex.
Tried different Plex versions, different network topologies in the house - but nothing seems to fix it. Netflix of course works perfectly.
Wish I could figure this issue out.
- barrystaes 10y agoChromecast 1? I had that too, try disabling encryption in Plex. In my case it wasnt the wifi signal quality, but rather all the decrypting the Chromecast had to do. And i found that using Ethernet also helps. I've seen Wifi AP's act up when using TKIP vs AES when streaming a video. Conclusion was it could not handle that load.
- haikuginger 10y ago^yep. The original Chromecast can't handle decrypting a high-bitrate stream realtime. It's kind of unfortunate.
- cookiecaper 10y agoChromecast (first-gen) gave me lots of annoying issues, just not beefy enough IMO. We upgraded to a Roku 4 and the difference is night and day, much better performance everywhere, interface doesn't get hung and require an unplug, stream hiccups are very rare, things like YouTube can be smoothly controlled from phones whereas Chromecast would constantly choke.