[ale] EzCast vs Chromecast

[Raylynn Knight]

Another good option is the Netgear NeoTV Max Streaming Player model NTV300SL

*.  GPL Source code is easily available from Netgear and
http://www.devttys0.com//?s=Neo+TV <http://www.devttys0.com//?s=Neo+TV> has
instructions for getting root access using just the remote.  I'm just now
starting to play with mine!*

*Ray*


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Sparr <sparr0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:13 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>
>> Asked for and received a chromecast for Xmas. It doesn't do things that I
>> expected, like playing **any** youtube video. Over 50% of the youtube
>> videos I
>> tried to play wouldn't. Pick any official Olympic 2012 video - won't play.
>
>
> "won't play" as in you encountered a software malfunction, or "won't play"
> as in you encountered a Youtube message saying the video isn't allowed to
> play?
>
>
>> Plus
>> controlling it locked up the current app on the Nexus4 phone about 20
>> times in 3
>> hrs of testing.
>>
>
> Which app(s) locked up? You reported it to their developers, right?
>
> Since plugging in my chromecast, I've had my living room devolve into a
> "youtube party" a few dozen times when friends have been hanging out. All
> told, perhaps 1000 videos (a hundred hours of video?) played, selected by
> 30 different people from 20 different devices (mostly Android phones). Not
> a single video failed/refused to play. Not a single device or app locked up.
>
>
>> I suppose if you are willing to run Chrome on a PC (not me), then
>> anything the
>> browser can see, can be streamed. I wouldn't know.
>>
>
> That is very much not how a Chromecast is meant to be used. The ability to
> send video from your PC's Chrome tab to the TV is a very tacked on thing,
> and not part of the purpose of the device at all. The chromecast is meant
> to play media from the network, specifically from the internet.
>
>
>> For more gotchas ...
>> http://blog.jdpfu.com/2014/01/06/chromecast-what-good-is-it
>> a blog article. With google being nasty towards independent developers,
>> that
>> turns the chromecast into a very specific device, for about 4 specific
>> uses.
>>
>
> What do you mean about being nasty towards independent developers? I
> recall one story about an API change breaking an app using the beta SDK.
>
>
>> If I wanted a DLNA client and didn't already have a game console, then
>> the WDTV
>> line is where I'd start.  I like to watch content from my network and
>> don't want
>> to fight with some 3rd party to make that possible (Roku/Chromecast).
>>
>
> Google is not writing apps for the chromecast aside from the ones for
> their services. There will be a DLNA client for the chromecast as soon as
> someone writes one. If you feel like paying a few thousand dollars in
> licensing fees, and some undisclosed amount per copy, feel free to publish
> your own! No one is stopping you except the DLNA patent holders.
>
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