When I cast from my phone to the TV, there’s a lag between the visual and the audio.
I’ve tried a couple of apps that are supposed to fix the problem but nothing works.
My phone is set to 5G and the TV is 2.4G.
Any ideas?
I only use casting for non-serious stuff and rarely.
Casting is well know for this and lots to read on www, but there are many possibilities.
One thing I see is both are advised to be on 5G
In my case with a Sony TV it was also something in Sony A/V sync settings.
Hmmm. I’ve looked at the G mismatch, but the TV doesn’t have a function to change it up and the phone won’t work at that reduced level.
Why do you think the phone won’t work at ‘that reduced level’, there’s nothing ‘reduced’ ….
2.4G is a frequency. With domestic wireless it’s better for range and thru wall penetration in larger houses.
5 GHz has less interference, making it better for streaming or gaming when close to the router.
My Sony TV has a setting to select 2.4 or 5G, if yours doesn’t have that, I suggest trying your phone on 2.4G.
But I don’t believe either Android or iOS can select a specific wireless band, you need to do that by naming the SSID for each band.
“Reduced”, “Narrower” whatever blah blah blah.
The phone gives 5,4,3,2.
2 won’t function. 3 and up won’t do it. The TV is stuck on 2.4.
I haven’t a clue what the rest of your post means.
Your phone settings 5,4,3,2 are the settings for your regional cellular phone network, 2G 3G and 5G …nothing related to your routers in house wireless channels.
You need to understand or find someone to help re my previous note
Panic over. For some reason, it works fine on my old smartphone.
So, sleeping dogs and all that.
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Some devices will send metadata to tell the TV they are a game console which will trigger the TV to go into low latency “game mode” which has better syncing with audio and video for some sources.
If this is the issue, you may find you can get it to work with your new device but manually change the picture mode to “game mode”.
It’s worth a shot. But often these things are just down to nature of how the handshakes negotiate during casting which you have no control over generally.
Yeah tried that. No diff.
I think it may, as it involves watching shows between two countries via a VPN, have something to do with new Android software.
The phone that does the job has an older Android OS on it.
You don’t ‘Cast ‘ to a TV. Your TV streams the content itself, so, yes it’s an odd one.
It’s not Airplay where you DO stream to the device.
Well cast and stream are different and you absolutely can cast netflix to a TV with the phone doing all the streaming. It’s only streaming if the TV supports it and your app syncs with the TV’s app to act as a control point.
Some may prefer this if latency is low and they don’t want a streaming dongle or if they travel a lot and want to watch content on a TV while traveling on business.
My sense is that the OP is aware casting is suboptimal in terms of quality and performance but has their reasons for going down that route.
I must have a unique phone then.
There’s an onboard app that’s called “Cast”. When I use it, my phone screen appears on the TV.
Must be magic.
Then you have my apologies for misunderstanding. It would never occur to me that anyone on this forum would want to stream from a mobile phone directly.
I’ve certainly done it for showing presentations or to show someone an episode of something on a service they don’t subscribe to.
Quality wise, my expectations are duly managed.
Why not?