Streaming 4.2.2 via Phone to TV

[cyberham]

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...

Once the stream goes to your PC or phone and can be viewed on those, I thought they would simply be able to cast back to the TV something simpler for the TV to interpret. But it doesn't work.

So I'm simply sitting my spare laptop PC beside the TV and connecting them via HDMI cable. That's my 4:2:2 decoding solution and it works fine. Before enabling the PC for a given 4:2:2 channel, I check quickly with my phone to see if the channel is worth viewing.

 

[mr3p]

Once the stream goes to your PC or phone and can be viewed on those, I thought they would simply be able to cast back to the TV something simpler for the TV to interpret. But it doesn't work.

Yes I too can stream 4:2:2 HD from Edison to smartphone and PC (Chromebox running Windows) and both devices can play content normally. You can't cast from your phone to TV because your TV media player or streaming device can't playback the 4:2:2 HD file and your phone CPU likely can't process both receiving and sending the 4:2:2: HD stream.

 

[comfortably_numb]

Yes I too can stream 4:2:2 HD from Edison to smartphone and PC (Chromebox running Windows). You can't cast from your phone to TV because your TV media player or streaming device can't playback the 4:2:2 HD file and your phone CPU likely can't process both receiving and sending the 4:2:2: HD stream.

I can view 4:2:2 on my iPhone using the GTShare app that goes with my V9. I have not tried casting it to the TV (yet). I might try to AirPlay the video to my TV via a Roku.

 

[mr3p]

I can view 4:2:2 on my iPhone using the GTShare app that goes with my V9. I have not tried casting it to the TV (yet). I might try to AirPlay the video to my TV via a Roku.

Want to wager large sums of money the Roku can't playback 4:2:2 1080 HD HEVC?

 

[comfortably_numb]

Want to wager large sums of money the Roku can't playback 4:2:2 1080 HD HEVC?

I don't have large sums of money. I spend it all on satellite equipment

 

[mr3p]

I don't have large sums of money. I spend it all on satellite equipment

The easiest and least expensive solution is mini PC or Chromebox running LibreELEC (Kodi) connected directly to TV.

 

[comfortably_numb]

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Yesterday at 11:52 PM

mr3p has discovered a way to stream from the V9 Prime directly to PC. This method may also work with a streamer connected to TV (such as Chromecast or Roku) but I have not tested it yet. So far this is WAY better than using that goofy GTShare app on your phone.

Go to Menu on the receiver. Scroll to User Data. Scroll to Data Export. Export a playlist to M3U to a flash drive (I exported my entire C-band playlist, over 600 channels).

Copy the M3U playlist to your desktop on your PC, and open in VLC. You will see all your channels there.

Click one (make sure you're on the correct...

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[Titanium]

This is how I display streamed content from the Samsung phone (or generic tablet) to the TV.
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A few years ago, sideloaded a 3rd party generic streaming app on the Samsung 4K TV and was able to watch content directly streamed from the Edision STB. Currently unable to locate the app for download, but might still exist somewhere...