Thanks for running that experiment for me. Hopefully the results are transferable.

Outlook is positive so far, I’ll give it a shot.

Hmm, sounds tentatively good. Definitely worth a shot. Thanks.

I guess I never checked, but I assumed that all the other solutions I’ve been using to stream video to the Chromecast were performing a reencode on the fly to meet Chromecast spec. If so, then hopefully this must be how Plex does it too and so hopefully as long as the horsepower is there it can take whatever size or quality source I have available and feed it to.the Chromecast at the Chromecast’s best available spec. I wouldn’t swear to it but I think I’ve done that with 4k material and VLC, with the outcome would have been 1080p at the appropriate bitrate for the Chromecast.

Does it do this on the fly as you play? I want to avoid transcoding if possible, however if it transcodes and streams that transcore simultaneously on the fly and then deletes the transcoded version automatically thereafter it might work out.

I haven’t used Plex yet, was wondering if it could do this to see if it was worth a shot. I’m hopeful from some of these responses though that it can. I expect burning in the subtitles would work, it’s just that I want to avoid re-encoding if I can and wouldn’t necessarily need Plex if that turned out to be the only way anyway. Thanks though.

Well I mean what did you just read? He already said those are the facts bro.

It says last updated in December 23. I can’t seem to find any way to manually update, on the github page there doesn’t seem to be a stable later release available. I hardly ever use the extension so it was kind of disappointing when on a whim I wanted to put up a trailer for a movie on screen and found it suddenly didn’t work. Oh well, it’s a complicated thing to pull off I imagine.

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The reduced wait time I think is the only real leg to stand on. It arguably doesn't make sense to undermine theatre ticket sales by making it cheaper at home, although I'd argue that it should be that the theatre option is the premium option that should cost more while home streaming is the cheap option if you don't want or need the theatre experience which should make it a complimentary income source to ticket sales not a threat to it but I guess they reckon they'll make them both cost the same until the cinema run is over so they never make less than a full theatre ticket price until then.

I hate how things being convenient means they have to cost more. "Convenience fees" are such a crock. If it cost them more to offer the convenience over their usual service, but they don't run video stores any more and this has arguably less overhead than the renting physical media business did so it should be cheaper for everyone and yet instead they contrive additional expense on top because they made it convenient.

Well shouldn't rental be much less than the price of buying and much less than the price of cinema tickets? That's how it used to work.

I often think this as well, however I take the continual attempts at nearly every possible turn to syphon yet more personal info as a sign at least someone doesn’t have it yet and wants it and maybe I can stop them getting it and also I think these operations that suck up and sell or otherwise exploit your data need a continuous flow rather than simply a finite set.

What they have is probably useful but actually to a certain extent it probably isn’t of much use without more data constantly coming in. Organisations like Google or Facebook would have such a large proportion of the planet represented in some form in their databases that it that were enough it’d basically be mission accomplished and they’d have no growth opportunities. I can probably never really know, but it looks like they need you to keep interacting with their services to maintain useful profiles of you and the rest of their hoardes and if they didn’t get it your data would be essentially stale at after time.

The sites don’t mention the AI authorship, so you go there to read an article, likely one you found linked elsewhere, only to be baffled by the ramblings.