Hi everyone,

I have a Chromecast, it works pretty well but I also have a Raspberry Pi
Zero W and as I don't love Google's ways I'd like to replace it with the
Rpi so that I don't need their hardware to stream stuff to my tv.

Do you think my Pi Zero W can handle the load? I know there's a project
that I can try but usually they show newer/faster pis doing the job and
I think it shouldn't be so demanding since all Rpis can do that job.

Any recommendations? Anyone else did this with a Pi Zero?
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On 03/07/2021 06:33, Francisco Fuentes wrote:

Hi everyone,

I have a Chromecast, it works pretty well but I also have a Raspberry Pi
Zero W and as I don't love Google's ways I'd like to replace it with the
Rpi so that I don't need their hardware to stream stuff to my tv.

I am not *sure* but I think it depends on what you stream....and what
what resolution.

IIRC the pi zero has H264 hardware decode. But that wont help if you are
using a webm stream

Do you think my Pi Zero W can handle the load? I know there's a project
that I can try but usually they show newer/faster pis doing the job and
I think it shouldn't be so demanding since all Rpis can do that job.

Any recommendations? Anyone else did this with a Pi Zero?

I stream audio completely successfully with mine

Not tried video

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