To make a honest fool of myself, I never even thought of that. I saw that there is no F1TV app for my TV and I had an extra HDMI cable laying around so I just thought "bingo" and hooked it up like that
That didn't work on my Samsung. As the video only plays in "approved" browsers like EDGE and Chrome. (No Opera).Cuky wrote: ↑08 Jan 2022, 20:49To make a honest fool of myself, I never even thought of that. I saw that there is no F1TV app for my TV and I had an extra HDMI cable laying around so I just thought "bingo" and hooked it up like that
Personally I use race control which is more or less similar but with better GUI for my tastecooken wrote: ↑08 Jan 2022, 19:51The loss in quality is unfortunate, but for a for die hard F1 nutcase I would argue something like F1 viewer (https://github.com/SoMuchForSubtlety/f1viewer) is the way to go. Is that possible with the sky broadcast?Juzh wrote: ↑08 Jan 2022, 18:37Yes, but sky f1 broadcast is in 4k and will work 99.99% of time, something that can not be said about f1tv, though it did work almost flawlessly this year, even with viewer numbers on considerably up compared to last year, so maybe it's now a problem of the past.siskue2005 wrote: ↑07 Jan 2022, 22:39
The UK SKY f1 is very very very expensive
What I do is I use VPN to put USA as my location and have taken a F1 TV subscription.
I have a sony android tv, so I can run VPN on it and F1 TV app on it
There is no quality loss, its exactly the same. There is a 50 sec delay, but I dial back the live timings to match the TV.
All these only costs 1/3rd of the Sky F1 Uk subscription
Sky also has that red button thingy where you can watch onboard streams in crisp 1080p50 @ 15 mb/s (same ones used for world feed) instead of muddy 720p50 @ 3500 mb/s on f1tv. And then there's "onboard mix" channel with integrated speedo, throttle, brake, gear and rpm (another thing missing in f1tv, most likely on purpose).
Basically if you're a die hard f1 nutcase then sky is worth it, otherwise obviously not so much. Personally I'd probably have both sky and f1tv if were in UK
It's a bit of work but well worth it to have several concurrent streams all on one display.
https://preview.redd.it/bz03ebyyin851.j ... 8acd14bd34
Ooh.... can I run this on my home media server and send to connected tvs!??! This could be super!Juzh wrote: ↑08 Jan 2022, 23:37Personally I use race control which is more or less similar but with better GUI for my tastecooken wrote: ↑08 Jan 2022, 19:51The loss in quality is unfortunate, but for a for die hard F1 nutcase I would argue something like F1 viewer (https://github.com/SoMuchForSubtlety/f1viewer) is the way to go. Is that possible with the sky broadcast?Juzh wrote: ↑08 Jan 2022, 18:37
Yes, but sky f1 broadcast is in 4k and will work 99.99% of time, something that can not be said about f1tv, though it did work almost flawlessly this year, even with viewer numbers on considerably up compared to last year, so maybe it's now a problem of the past.
Sky also has that red button thingy where you can watch onboard streams in crisp 1080p50 @ 15 mb/s (same ones used for world feed) instead of muddy 720p50 @ 3500 mb/s on f1tv. And then there's "onboard mix" channel with integrated speedo, throttle, brake, gear and rpm (another thing missing in f1tv, most likely on purpose).
Basically if you're a die hard f1 nutcase then sky is worth it, otherwise obviously not so much. Personally I'd probably have both sky and f1tv if were in UK
It's a bit of work but well worth it to have several concurrent streams all on one display.
https://preview.redd.it/bz03ebyyin851.j ... 8acd14bd34
https://github.com/robvdpol/RaceControl
Huh? Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I don't get why or how Chromecast would not work for casting from the F1TV app (or browser) as long as the streaming service itself is available in your region. One of the reasons I mentioned it was many TVs these days have it built-in.
It almost certainly would work. But watching F1 would probably be my only use for it and I don't think it warrants the costs. Plus, it is not available here where I live (like many good things sadly) so I have to get by what I can with.cooken wrote: ↑12 Jan 2022, 21:21Huh? Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I don't get why or how Chromecast would not work for casting from the F1TV app (or browser) as long as the streaming service itself is available in your region. One of the reasons I mentioned it was many TVs these days have it built-in.
I'm running an unofficial app on my nVidia Shield (AndroidTV) made by a fan which works perfectly fine.
