I've been using Chromecasts and it's gotten so slow and buggy. I was trying to cast from VLC on my phone to it and I had a ton of trouble getting it to show up and connect and after I finished streaming from my phone I tried to switch to the YouTube app and it just kept on crashing.
It's 2024, I'm tired of dealing with shitty tv streaming experiences. I want something completely uncompromising. I want a silky smooth experience and I don't want it to randomly break on my.
I'm thinking about shelling out for a shield TV, but I'd rather have control over my device since I don't want to deal with the manufacturers fucking around with my device after the fact.
I'd love to be able to set up a raspberry pi for this, but would I be able to get a seamless experience? I don't mind doing extra up front work to get it set up, but I don't want it to be an ongoing maintenance thing, and I'd like it to work with Chromecast so it's easy to stream to from a variety of devices.
Can I actually pull that off with a raspberry pi or should I go with the shield TV?
I tried to look into this for a bit, but unfortunately nothing yet matches the Chromecast experience for me just yet.
I found my old Chromecast just wasn't running current versions of the streaming apps, let alone 4k. I ended up getting a new one, it does run a lot better and more independently than the one I had from 2013. I have hooked up vlc on it to a file share on my PC and the convenience is extremely nice.