How Can I Speed Up My Chromecast?
There are a few ways you can improve the data transfer speed of your casting, reducing the oddes of your video lagging or pausing.
Cast Local Content
One of the easiest ways to make your casting experience with your Chromecast faster is by streaming content directly from your device rather than over the internet. This works because whenever you cast from a service like YouTube or Netflix, the data transfer for that stream happens over the internet from the streaming service to your Chromecast device. By casting directly, you remove the lag introduced by the internet.
Lower the Video Quality
You can also speed up Chromecast casting by reducing the amount of data the Chromecast device has to transfer from the internet. You can do this by reducing the selected video quality in the streaming service you’re casting from.
How Do I Optimize Chromecast Full Screen?
If you’re casting content from your browser to another display in full screen, there’s another way to optimize so the stream works more efficiently. This is a feature in the Chrome browser cast feature which lets you optimize fullscreen videos. To enable this feature, just right-click the Chromecast icon at the upper right corner of your browser, and select Optimize fullscreen videos to enable this feature. When this feature is enabled, it will turn off mirroring so the data stream for the video goes entirely to the display you’re casting to and consumes much less of your computer’s CPU. It also adjusts the quality of the video stream for the resolution of the display that you’re casting to.
