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  • Pi Zero W as a "Raspicast"

    From Francisco Fuentes@3:770/3 to All on Sat Jul 3 01:33:32 2021
    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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  • From The Natural Philosopher@3:770/3 to Francisco Fuentes on Sat Jul 3 09:19:08 2021
    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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