Pixelated image when using built-in Chromecast

[Jake C]

Before I got a smart TV I would screen cast from my android to a Chromecast dongle with no issue.

Ever since I've been using the built in Chromecast on my Vizio, every few minutes into streaming something the image will get very pixelated. The only way I've found to fix it is to stop the cast, wait a minute, and start casting again. And then a few minutes later the image gets pixelated again. Stop casting, wait, start casting...

Does anyone know why this is happening and/or how to correct it?

I'm casting from a Motorola android but that wasn't an issue when using the dongle.

Thanks,

Jake

 

[razel]

Also have a Vizio and stopped using the built in YouTube app for casting. It has many issues and Vizio/Google has not updated my player 6-8 months. What you can try is to ensure that your TV is using the Ethernet LAN wire. By the way, my Vizio is pretty tenacious with preferring wireless. You can tell it's using wired via the info screen or the network screen. Either way, I eventually just reset my Vizio's TV apps so that it never shows up as a cast device.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

I've had my Vizio for almost a year and haven't had this issue, but my tv is hard wired. If not hard wired, can you hard wire to see if it's an issue with your wifi network?

 

[JeffMD]

One thing to keep in mind... chromecast capabilities inside a tv does not mean the hardware is from google, it is simply a h264 compliant hardware decoder with the software to understand chromecast's protocol. Sudden pixilated jumbleness can be 2 things, a sudden drop in the network performance causing the hardware to drop to a slower data profile, or a glitch in the firmware software inside the tv itself. Neither one are really correctable as the TV has no movable antenna.