This method requires you to gain access to a Comcast/DirecTV/Cable provider login.
I am a chord cutter, but I love the Olympics and don't want to miss out. After trying every solution i read out there about the best way to stream the Olympics to my TV, this is the method that I now use, and it has worked flawlessly for the last 2 days - i mean FLAWLESSLY.
My original attempt was to use the Kodi Add-on as seen here: http://androidtv.news/2016/08/watch-rio-olympics-2016-android-tv/ I never could get it to work very well for me. I tried other Kodi add ons like caster, and was not satisfied.
Now the beginning of success came when I started using the NBC Sports app on my phone, and casting to the my Shield TV. This required me to get Comcast (or any provider) login credentials from a user (my parents) who had a cable subscription, in order for me to watch the live streams. This worked.... a little. For whatever reason, the casting ability of the app is atrocious. It buffers, freezes, and stops streaming all together every couple minutes, even though if i just use the app natively on my phone without casting, it has no issues.
Solution - remove the casting process from the equation - Sideload the APP directly onto my shield.
After login, the app works flawlessly. Casting seemed to be the main fault of the app... It just can't do it efficiently. Once i started running the NBC app directly from my Shield TV, it works without any issue whatsoever... i mean it.
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Hello all. I just wanted to see if anyone knew the solution to this issue.
When I use my Android TV Youtube app (or the built in Chromecast) I experience audio cut outs on certain videos. The cut outs are not random, as I can play the same video a dozen times and every time the audio will cut out at the exact same moments.
In this video, for example, all the audio is fine until Homers first line. He says "Yep, it's the American way." Using either the built in app or the built in Chromecast results in me only being able to hear "Yep, it's the -" then the rest of his line is cut off.
Many videos on the Extra History and Extra Credits Youtube channels suffer this issue as well.
Anyone have any idea what might be causing this? 85-90% of Youtube works fine. But occasionally I will get videos that do this and the only solution there seems to be usa to just watch those videos on my phone.
I am using a simple sound bar plugged in with an optical cable as well. But the sound bar is so simple that I can't imagine it's the culprit here.