I have a CCwGTV working with a USB C hub but don’t have the ability to hardwire to the network (old house, far from router, etc.). I have a collection of 4K movies that are too high of bitrate to play over Wi-Fi, even if I plug the server into the router (making Wi-Fi only need to take care of one side of the equation). For the sake of maintaining the picture quality, I don’t want Plex to transcode the movies to a lower bitrate.
I bought the USB C hub thinking I could load the movies onto a flash drive and plug them into the Chromecast, but because CC only accepts a FAT32 file system and the movies are minimum 20GB, this didn’t work.
My workaround for now is formatting the flash drive as “Internal Storage” on the Chromecast and transferring the movies over Wi-Fi (which takes a very long time with such huge files). With the flash drive formatted that way, I’m unfortunately unable to access it from my computer (Mac) because the format is unreadable to my computer.
Is there a faster way to get these movies onto the Chromecast or am I just SOL? (Was thinking that an ideal way could be to connect the CC to my Mac using Ethernet to transfer the files, although I can’t find any information on how to get the 2 devices to recognize each other). Thanks!
Square Peg Round Hole - out of the box, Google never really meant the CCGTV dongle to be used for high bitrate 4K HDR Bluray Rips.
Cheap 4K HDR Bluray Rips local playback is much better on a USB3, Gigabit Ethernet equipped, cheap, AMLogic S905X3 Chipset CoreELEC Kodi device. See Kodi Hardware forums for details.
CoreELEC even includes an inbuilt (drag n drop) SAMBA server, showing media player > USB connected devices, that Pops up automatically in OSX Finder Sidebar on networked Mac's.