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Comment by smpetrey | Hacker News Reader

I wish someone would add Chromecast support to Dolphin so bad.

I'm not entirely sure that'd work very well, since the Chromecast mirroring function has some pretty high latency.

If you want to stream Dolphin to your TV, a cheap option is to use Steam's in-home streaming feature. The Steam Link is a dedicated piece of hardware for this which I think is about $50 and will work with existing controllers or the Steam controller. You can also just use any existing laptop (windows, mac, linux) with a sufficiently powerful cpu for stream decoding and use it as an in-home streaming client. I've messed around with a lot of solutions for streaming from my PC to living room TV, and Steam's solution blows just about everything else out of the water.

One suggestion on using Steam link, is to connect the streaming machine, and Steam link via ethernet, and not WIFI.

From my personal experience (and research online), wifi can be iffy, and ethernet ensures a much smoother experience overall.

5ghz 802.11ac has worked great for me.

I actually had the opposite: it seemed to work OK until it suddenly stopped receiving video entirely. (though oddly I could see the input being sent when I looked at the computer it was running on) 2.4ghz was actually much more successful for me, though it ended up having hitches every so often. And when you're trying to play Dark Souls or a rhythm game, you don't want hitches. I spent the time to get everything hooked up via ethernet and I don't see any more issues, even at the high quality setting for streaming.

Though maybe my experience is affected by the router I have. (which is in AP mode and I have a custom firewall)

5ghz has less penetration than 2.4ghz, it may be a distance thing.

Ethernet FTW.

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