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Hi & Chromecast Quality limited to 6Mbps ?


Sp3kt3r

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First, I would like to say hi to everyone. :)

 

I'm currently an old plex user and I'm proud to move to MB3. Don't get me wrong Plex is a nice software but so many feature are lock and it's getting worst with their upcoming price increase policy. I was really surprise to see many feature from MB3 that you had to be a premium feature with Plex. I prefer and I will support MB3 :)

 

After playing with MB3 over the weekend I also had the chance to try the Android client and I only have one question.

 

I noticed that the quality setting for Chromecast is limited to 6Mbps ?

 

I know chromecast can do more than that and I was wondering if in the upcoming new android client the profile will have higher bitrate ? The reason why i'm asking is because when I cast high bitrate movie with fast scene, 6Mbps is not enough so the image is very pixelated even if my LAN/WIFI profile is up to 21Mbps. I didn't have that with plex and chromecast (only good thing lol)  and i'm sure you guys are either working, aware of it or any tips ?

 

Thank you  ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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i think it will but in the meantime, if you cast from the web client CC will use the same bitrate as when you play within the web client. that means you have to start a video first then change the setting so that it saves, although with the next server release there will be a dedicated option so you won't have to do that anymore.

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Wow Thank you for the quick response !

I'm looking forward for the next server update and also the new android client.

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No problem and in the web client, it's a one-time workaround right now to just start a video, bump the video bitrate, then stop it. the change will be saved and applied to CC as well.

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Redshirt

The new Android client will allow bitrate values up to 21 mb/s. The last public release of the Android client was back when the Chromecast API was still in beta. The Chromecast has come a long way since then, as has the Android client.

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Thx for the tips Luke !

 

That's a great news redshirt :) any change of having a beta  :P  lol but hey.. I'll wait no problem.

 

I'm proud to be a monthly supporter now and will probably give a few more $ on the side when I will have time to see all the other feature :)

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randomizer

The new Android client will allow bitrate values up to 21 mb/s. The last public release of the Android client was back when the Chromecast API was still in beta. The Chromecast has come a long way since then, as has the Android client.

This is an issue I raised some time ago. I've very pleased to hear that arbitrarily low limits are now a thing of the past!

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