Chromecast with Google Tv: HEVC H.265 problem

by Dragon-548

Hi,
I recently purchased a Chromecast with Google tv. I previously had a Xiaomi Mibox 3 and overall I'm happy with the much faster Chromecast. I use this one in particular to play videos stored on my Synology NAS via KODI. I have no problem playing x264 videos of around 20 gigs. Reading a file in x265 (HEVC) format does not work correctly, however: it is very jerky (an image every 2/3 seconds and sound does not work correctly). I tried with several files and the result is always the same. My old Mibox 3 played these files perfectly, so I think the Chromecast must be able to do this too.
Can you help me ?
Thanks in advance.

Homeroids

Are you matched to a 1080p TV? I have my Chromecast TV on a 2011 Pany plasma that has an excellent picture but any HEVC 4k will not play. The software seems not to down sample. I moved the Chromecast TV to my newer 2021 Samsung and it was flawless for HEVC 4k. It was the matching of TVs

pawdog

Don't have any trouble with HEVC on the CCwGTV, have you tried a different player, maybe something is going on with your Kodi install.

mtrivs

HEVC content works well for me on CC when streaming from plex (direct play). I don't get the audio/video issues that you described.

nolookjones

works fine for me on the latest kodi over smb shares..i used to have mibox3 too