Hello,
We use Channels mostly as a DVR, though sometimes watching a recording in progress, with three different clients:
- Chromecast with Google TV with 4K
- Chromecast with Google TV HD
- Apple TV 4k
The Apple TV 4K works great. The two CCGTs are terrible! Every time we skip forward / backward, it is a hold your breath affair. Sometimes it works, but often bad things happen: long buffering, the video stream crashing and exiting to the main recording menu, the stream skipping to a totally unexpected location (this is particularly aggrevating when watching a recording in progress where skipping forward often leads to the stream moving all the way forward to the live broadcast -- argh!!). There are also annoying audio / video sync issues.
I have tried using CCGT with both WiFi and ethernet--both connectivity options have the same problem. I have also turned down my streaming rate to 4 MB/s. This does seem to make the problems a bit less frequent (I think....), but they still happen.
So, I am wondering:
- are these problems that I can debug / fix?
- Or should I give up on CCGTs as Channels clients?
- If I give up on CCGTs as clients, is there a highly recommended budget client solution for Channels? (It's a bit spendy to have to go replace both CCGTs with Apple TV 4Ks.......)