Google always resisted throwing in a remote before because, by including a remote control, you’d also need a user interface to browse.Īnd, so, that’s the other big new feature: the Chromecast now has a UI to go with that remote control, called Google TV.

READ NEXT: Roku Streaming Stick+ - the ultimate media streaming stick Chromecast with Google TV (2020) review: What you need to know This year, however, that’s all changed: the new Chromecast with Google TV finally comes with a remote control you can lose down the side of the sofa. It was cheap and simple but you had to have a phone, tablet or laptop from which to cast content. In the box, all you got was the Chromecast dongle, a USB cable and sometimes a power adapter. But despite introducing several new versions in the intervening years, the basic premise has remained unchanged. This important part is that I get jittering on my TV, with current setup.The Google Chromecast streaming stick took a moribund industry and made it cool again when it first launched back in 2013. I know your logic makes a lot of sense but I prefer not to go this route, spend an hour configure everything just to uninstall it after, regardless the result. While playing from my Mac has no jitters at I understand what you are proposing but even if I choose to install the Mac Plex release and test it, I will never use it, that is why I built my NAS. Now that I payed close attention, the important part is the jittering does not occur always, some videos have it, some don't? Streaming from Google Chrome browser on my TV with Cast functionality has one small jitter. I encode all my videos with Handbrake, so all settings are identical for all movies.

The funny part is that occurs only in the beginning of stream, on TV or maybe my eyes are getting used to? But is always at the exact same sequence, as you can see. I no jittering also when I play the movie directly on site, in my Safari browser. I attached the video filmed from my Mac (played with IINA from SMB share) and my TV (Plex) as comparison. Some update, for a moment I thought this is related to automatic quality adjustment, but is not.

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