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?
Dont bother with raspberrypis for most things anymore. Too expensive for that old shitty hardware they put on the boards..
Machines like the Intel N100 is much simpler to deal with. No more shitty hardware incompatability and old CPU which doesnt even have proper modern HW offloading (looking at you Pi4.. what a shitboard)
And the N100 even has AV1 decoding, which is why I'll be using the mini PC, I bought as a server (which has an N100), for Kodi as well, since I try to get most stuff in AV1 and the Pi was my only device that was too slow to play it
Any idea what the power draw is for n100's compared to pi?