[ewillbefull]

Yes, god yes I have. Chromecast used to work just fine last year, but this year it's been a disaster.

* Almost all youtube videos start playing before they're buffered, the video is paused but the audio continues playing until the video resumes and it catches up. Makes watching any 15 second video impossible. The buffering in general is really broken.

* Chromecast loves to play previous videos I watched when I start playing new ones. I frequently have to disconnect youtube from it and start a new session to get it to behave intuitively.

I pretty much have to transcode all of my media to h264/aac in order for it to play on the Chromecast from my computer -- I thought this would get better over time but it hasn't.

[ParadigmBlender]

It is pretty clear that a large portion of device owners are having severe issues with the device. I am surprised it has not made the news nor been addressed for as long as it has been happening. With every update my experience seems to worsen though I still hope this will get addressed.

I am tempted to buy the new version to see if that would fix anything.