You can stream saved video files from a folder to your TV using Chromecast. [link]
Groupon has the Chromecast dongle for cheap [link]
Well, quite a lot of fuss. If I didn't know better, I'd think we were dangerous.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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Jon B. - Jul 23, 2015 6:36:18 am PDT #24522 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Vonnie K - Jul 23, 2015 6:40:57 am PDT #24523 of 25496
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Yay! That *would* be the simplest and cheapest option for sure if it can do that. Thanks!
Gris - Jul 25, 2015 6:02:58 am PDT #24524 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Chromecast is good but my favorite is an Amazon Fire TV Stick with SPMC (an of shoot of XBMC) side loaded. It takes a bit of work to get set up but there are good walkthroughs and the XBMC interface is by far the best way to interact with media files. And it is powerful for the size: plays my very high quality HD bluray rips with DD and DTS sound over WiFi from my network share with no issues.
Chromecast doesn't do surround sound well and personally I like a physical remote. But if that isn't an issue it works well too.
Gris - Jul 25, 2015 6:03:57 am PDT #24525 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Note: the fire tv stick is definitely NOT as good as a roku or even Chromecast for streaming options it just happens to work really well for local files using spmc.
omnis_audis - Jul 25, 2015 9:11:49 am PDT #24526 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I have the full FireTV, and like it much better than my AppleTV. I attached a tiny flash drive to it, so I can keep more apps installed, including XBMC (or whatever it's called now).
Gris - Jul 25, 2015 9:41:29 am PDT #24527 of 25496
Hey. New board.
The stick can be a tad crashy when streaming for some reason. I'm sure the full fire tv doesn't have the same problem. But I got the stick for 19 and it works so I can't complain!
DXMachina - Jul 25, 2015 6:04:08 pm PDT #24528 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Not the simplest solution, but I built a media server from a Raspberry Pi B, RaspBMC (also a fork of XBMC), and a 3 TB external drive. Worked great once I (knowing almost no Linux) got the initial configuration worked out. Fortunately, the one piece of Linux I did know was sudo, and also fortunately, there are plenty of easy to follow tutorials to be found.
The one thing I haven't done is try streaming on it, but the only thing I currently stream is MLB.TV.
Tom Scola - Aug 04, 2015 11:02:25 am PDT #24529 of 25496
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Gudanov - Aug 12, 2015 4:36:29 am PDT #24530 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
I have a Roku 3 that can't sign into Netflix. When I try to sign into Netflix I get an invalid account credentials message. I've very carefully tried the password like six times and I'm sure I got it right. I can login to Netflix on my computer. I can login to Netflix on my other Roku 3. What the actual fuck?
Jessica - Aug 12, 2015 6:00:35 pm PDT #24531 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I suspect gremlins. It would explain why power cycling the router and modem (to see if we could get DH's work computer to see the network) caused everything to go offline until I did it five more times, including a call to Optimum in which the CS rep told me that the modem and laptop (which had taken a little while to see each other while connected via ethernet) were "like a boyfriend and girlfriend who weren't speaking to each other but then make up again."