Hello @Street_gamer ,
If by "normal" you mean a non-Ultra Chromecast, then it seems unlikely. Stadia supports two video encoding standards at this point: VP9 and H.264. But, H.264 is really only used for Chrome browsers running on devices that don't support hardware decoding of VP9, and it uses a higher bitrate than typical H.264 streams. While the pre-Ultra Chromecasts do have some support for decoding H.264, they do not support VP9, so Stadia would need to deliver H.264 to them as well, and it's not clear their older/slower processors could safely handle the high bitrate H.264 stream without overheating. I'm not saying I have any inside information on that (I don't), but I do have a few decades of experience as an engineer, and that's what I'd be worried about. That said, Google may surprise us at some point. On the other hand, we may see new streaming devices released at the higher end, and that could result in the CCU becoming the new entry level offering (again, I have no inside information, but it's what I would be doing). If that happens, I don't think they'll invest the time in trying to support the older models.
Why not Zoidberg?
