Streaming 4.2.2 via Phone to TV

[cyberham]

Today's goal is to receive 4.2.2 video on my Edision, stream it via wifi to my Android phone, then cast that video back to my big screen TV all wirelessly.

While I look for 4.2.2. to test with, I have tried the accomplish the above with FTA standard HD video. I'm receiving a football game from 97W C. This works. Image below is taken off the big screen TV but being relayed from the Edision receiver to the phone and back to the big screen TV.

Now to find 4.2.2.

 

[comfortably_numb]

There is a CBS mux in 4:2:2 on both 93C and 97C

 

[cyberham]

Ok, I found 4:2:2 and my silly mistake. At first, I couldn't receive CBS or ABC on 97W. Why? Skew was backwards on the LNBF. How many times have I done that? With correct skew, both are strong.

So below is 4:2:2. from CBS as received via wifi on my Android phone. But...when I try to cast it back to the big screen, all I get is the "circling wagon" indication on the TV. No video is received on the TV. I guess the bandwidth or processing capacity of the Android is insufficient.

Well at least I can use my PC to decode the 4:2:2 and connect that via HDMI cable back to the big screen TV. So there is a solution to watch 4:2:2 but I must use a PC physically connected to the TV to play it.

4:2:2 on my Smartphone via wifi from the Edision:

 

[N5XZS]

Any android phone don't have that kind of CPU power to handle very rich 4:2:2 data payload, unless you have almost Star Trek technology level style phone technology to do the job!

 

[cyberham]

The Android phone (or PC) decodes the 4:2:2 stream fine and plays it locally smoothly. But the phone can't do that, it seems, plus also cast it back to the TV. It could even be a bandwidth issue on my local house wifi.

 

[N5XZS]

Or the possibility the 2.4 Wi Fi band is over crowded when frequency hopping to find empty RF channel. You might want to upgrade to multi band system 2.4, 5 and 6 GHz.

5 and 6 GHz bands are less crowded...

 

[cyberham]

2.4 GHz wifi band is empty. We have no neighbours as far as we can see. It's just us.

 

[navychop]

Don't run your microwave.

 

[cyberham]

Don't run your microwave.

I gotta warm my milk.

 

[N5XZS]

Are you running microwave oven at the same time while measuring your Wi Fi's signal strength at the same time?

In that case your microwave's TX PEP +or - 1 Kw running in resulting not able to see you other neighbors signals strength out there.

 

[cyberham]

...not able to see you other neighbors signals strength...

Are those the things that comment and complain about what you do? We don't have neighbours...

 

[comfortably_numb]

Are those the things that comment and complain about what you do

Them, and HOA's

 

[N5XZS]

Well here in my neighborhood is choke full of Wi Fi signals in 2.4 GHz about 20+ stations spilling out and on 5 GHz, 10 + stations, on 6 GHz no stations found.

So yes it's pretty crowded out here...

 

[comfortably_numb]

Well here in my neighborhood is choke full of Wi Fi signals in 2.4 GHz about 20+ stations spilling out and on 5 GHz, 10 + stations, on 6 GHz no stations found.

So yes it's pretty crowded out here...

Same in my neighborhood up in Rio Rancho. Only option is to use 5Ghz WIFI.

 

[Mr Tony]

Before we got fibre connections here at the apartment compound the DSL they gave us was ONLY 2.4 ghz. So you've got 50 apartments with the same DSL and only 11 channels available. Thank goodness they moved us to fibre (the apartment landlord pays for it. There are 5 buildings) because we all are on 5g now. No issues.
Prior to that the internet connection from my neighbor was stronger than my own when I sat in my chair. They put the router in a hole built in the bedroom closet (these are new complexes built in the last 7 years). Back before we got fibre everything that could be connected via a wire was….including my iPad

 

[comfortably_numb]

Before we got fibre connections here at the apartment compound the DSL they gave us was ONLY 2.4 ghz

You can always put your own 5Ghz router behind the ISP's router, as you mentioned, they're often subpar anyway.

 

[cyberham]

Fiber here is 1 Gbps service. I never have Internet issues. And we can stream as much as we want with multiple devices without trouble. In the past, when we've thought of moving to an area, the very first question was what Internet service was available. We recall dial up service in the old days and we learned how important good Internet is.

 

[Mr Tony]

You can always put your own 5Ghz router behind the ISP's router, as you mentioned, they're often subpar anyway.

I did that after the cable guy came out and explained why the wireless portion sucked. Don't need it now

 

[Mr Tony]

Fiber here is 1 Gbps service. I never have Internet issues. And we can stream as much as we want with multiple devices without trouble.

Same here. Considering we went from 30MB to 1Gbps it was a heckuva upgrade

 

[mr3p]

The inability to cast from phone to TV is not related to bandwidth, it relates to your TV's inability to process/playback the 4:2:2 HD stream. None of the current mainstream streaming devices, FireTV 4k, GoogleTV 4k streamer, Nvidia Shield TV can playback 4:2:2 HD (1080) HEVC. The Nvidia shield TV worked for 4:2:2 720p last year and likely still does. Apple TV 4k could playback 4:2:2 HD 1080 but the color was washed out and didn't look normal. My current thinking is the best option to connect directly to TV and receive stream from Edison Mio is dedicated miniPC or G4 or newer Chromebox running Kodi (LibreElec).