Playing 4k Video to Google Chromecast

prevaljo

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Jan 19, 2022 19:46

I have a question that I am not sure is a PowerDVD question. I have a short piece of 4K MP4 (264) video taken by a drone, PowerDVD 21 will play this video to the desktop monitor but does not play the video to a Google Chromecast. VLC Media Player will play the same piece of video to the Google Chromecast and hence the TV.

If I take the video clip and "Produce" it in Power Director the resultant 4K video (HEVC) clip can be played to the Chromecast /TV.

Any thoughts.

Jets2011

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Jan 19, 2022 20:39

Quote I have a question that I am not sure is a PowerDVD question. I have a short piece of 4K MP4 (264) video taken by a drone, PowerDVD 21 will play this video to the desktop monitor but does not play the video to a Google Chromecast. VLC Media Player will play the same piece of video to the Google Chromecast and hence the TV.

If I take the video clip and "Produce" it in Power Director the resultant 4K video (HEVC) clip can be played to the Chromecast /TV.

Any thoughts.

I am sure the drone uses a custom codec to encode the video, similar to what most dashcams do. PowerDVD only supports certain codecs for streaming, that's why when converting to HEVC there is no problem. So the custom codecs might need to be converted first using Handbrake or Powerdirector.

https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdvd/21/pc-mode/enu/06_01_01_video-casting-details.html

Dave

prevaljo

Member Joined: Oct 01, 2017 22:19 Messages: 105 Offline

Jan 19, 2022 21:24

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I am sure the drone uses a custom codec to encode the video, similar to what most dashcams do. PowerDVD only supports certain codecs for streaming, that's why when converting to HEVC there is no problem. So the custom codecs might need to be converted first using Handbrake or Powerdirector.

https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdvd/21/pc-mode/enu/06_01_01_video-casting-details.html

Dave

Thanks for this reply Dave, I think I'll try recording in HEVC to see if the result is any different. In reality I normally want to edit the video prior to playing it as raw footage contains a lot of dross.