On 26/08/2019 04.14, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [08-25-19 16:56]:
On 25/08/2019 22.36, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 22:10:57 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
Writing a small bunch of movies to a stick to see on the TV take hours.
I keep the movies or whatever on my linux box and serve them by NFS to Kodi on my Amazon Fire TV. Works pretty much out of the box.
I bought a tv box thing running android from Amazon. While it was being delivered, the dealer sent me an email saying that I had to download apps from their site, not from G. Play, meaning the box was rooted. So I returned it without opening it. For lying to me in the description.
Months later I bought a Google Chromecast - I chanced to see it on a supermarket, was cheap. After trying it, I found that it would not play things from my network, and would not play Amazon Prime either. I tried a lot of things, but only VLC can, theoretically, play a movie and cast it. New feature. Did not work.
I tried again yesterday: it starts. Says it needs conversion. Ok, go ahead. But movie playing fails when it reads from my LAN. So I downloaded it to my tablet (which took ages). Now it worked, but it crashes often (5 minutes play), can not navigate the movie (back some minutes)... hell.
So again, last resource was writing the thing to a stick.
At least, Amazon Prime now works on the Chromecast: Google and Amazon buried the war axe for now.
Why would I want to copy things to a physical stick and then carry it and plug it in to the TV?
Because it simply works...
I just broke off from cable/directv and have an indoor hd antenna which finds 52 channels (almost all viewable including regular locat channels) which is plugged into my amazon recast. I use amazon firestick 4k to access movies & ...
Yes, I should have got an Amazon thing instead. It was at on the moment decision when seeing the Chromecast in a box at the "technological supermarket". I thought it would convert my TV into a Smart TV. It did not. So I make do. Carrying sticks to the TV solves a problem. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)