Xbox Cloud Gaming

furyou on 22/06/2022 - 20:38

ID like some advice how to get cloud gaming to work well. I have an Xbox series X in my living room connected via ethernet cable.

It's connected to a switch under the stairs which goes to the ethernet cable to my TV in the bedroom. In the bedroom I have an Android TV Box running the Xbox app. I have a wireless controller connected to the TV box.

Since everything is wired except for the controller this should be the best that I can get.

The graphics via the app suck. It's a pixellated 720p I think. It's also laggy. Control lags half a second.

sniper 5 completely unplayable due to the lag. Driving unplayable.

The other way, playing cloud games from the Xbox downstairs is better. No input lag, the graphics are 720p but clean.

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  • scrimshaw on 22/06/2022 - 21:02
    +1

    Android TV Box running the Xbox app

    Is this a branded Android TV box or something generic? It might have really bad networking hardware.

    The Xbox Series X|S game controller is actually multi-protocol — if you are pairing it to an Android or PC device the controller uses Bluetooth radio.
    This has more latency than connecting to your xbox (which uses proprietary RF signals), so ideally you're going to want to use a USB cable.

    Have you tried hooking it up a standard laptop to see if the TV box is your bottleneck?

    • furyou on 22/06/2022 - 21:25

      It's a generic TV box. I'm sure it's not very high end. Is there a 'good' Android TV box? From what I see there's nothing really new in the world of Android TV box.

      So the control is probably no good. I heard ppl say use the xbox controller, and just see if it works from the bdrm.

    • furyou on 22/06/2022 - 23:19

      This is my controller https://www.gamesir.hk/products/gamesir-t4-pro

      With the 2.4ghz dongle, is that better than BT?

  • Switchblade88 on 22/06/2022 - 21:05

    What are the specs of your Android box?

    If it's something cheap and cheerful then it likely doesn't have enough grunt to stream at the required bandwidth to work effectively. You could try streaming to a (presumably better) PC at the same ethernet endpoint to ensure the network is fine, but if everything is cabled in then that's not likely to be the problem.

    • furyou on 22/06/2022 - 21:36

      It's called m8s, can't say much about the specs. minim8s android 6
      it's old. what's good nowadays?

      • scrimshaw on 22/06/2022 - 22:24
        +1

        That's running an 28nm Amlogic S905 from 2016. No wonder you're getting a janky streaming experience.

        From what I see there's nothing really new in the world of Android TV box.

        Well. Android TV Boxes are sort of going out of style nowadays, every TV sold nowadays has features that overlap an Android TV box.

        The Nvidia Shield TV is the most powerful android tv box that I know of, but I haven't seen anyone post a deal for it in about a year. Both the Google Chromecast and the Amazon Fire TV sticks are also extremely cheap and have good integration with smart home devices / voice assistants, as well as ongoing software updates.

        List of deals with Media Player as the tag

        https://www.ozbargain.com.au/tag/media-player

        • furyou on 22/06/2022 - 23:18

          I was researching a few years ago, and I found there's no "new features" in Android TV box. I mean the new chipsets support the same 4k whatevers, same codecs. So would it make any difference?

          Nvidia Shield TV hasn't been updated for years, and seems to use CPU grunt rather than hardware codec support. I don't want to spend $300 on outdated hardware.

          I have a hisense tv. It's not android, so I can't add apps to it. It's vidaa. can't even get kodi. Has prime tho.

          I want the box for kodi to play off my nas, and only tv boxes do that right?

          I also have the S Tab 8 with the recent deal. Would that be better?

          • scrimshaw on 22/06/2022 - 23:42

            @furyou:

            I want the box for kodi to play off my nas, and only tv boxes do that right?

            You just need any kind of computer, doesn't matter if it runs Chrome OS, Windows 10 or Android, to play media off your NAS.

            You can even use old hardware from 5-6 years ago — do you have an old laptop or PC lying around that you can re-purpose? Or looked at the refurbished Core i5 Dell Optiplex (small form factor) deals on the front page?
            Those will be much more capable than a Android TV box running a weak ARM SOC.

            • furyou on 22/06/2022 - 23:59

              @scrimshaw: Don't have old hardware. I did like sth that's more an appliance than trying to run a PC though.

  • chillipaste on 24/06/2022 - 20:33

    On a related note, is the nvidia shield pro the only real alternative to using an actual xbox to utilise xbox cloud gaming?

    Are there other alternatives for use in the lounge room / TV? Excluding laptops and dedicated PC

    • scrimshaw on 25/06/2022 - 13:13
      +1

      You can

      • play on your smartphone, tablet and anything running IOS 10 or higher

      • buy a cheap Xbox One or One S on eBay, which will both run xbox games natively or stream them online. EB games sells them refurbished but the prices are inflated.

      • Chromecast with Google TV can also technically play xcloud but the experience could be quite janky. I suspect it's due to poor optimisation.

      • Buy a cheap Dell Optiplex or Lenovo Thinkstation with at least a quad core processor, Intel UHD Graphics 4000 and stream using the Xbox App from the Microsoft app store. Intel NUC or Gigabyte BRIX if you want something smaller.

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