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Plex client for the Raspberry Pi

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Re: Plex client for the Raspberry Pi

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Post by dalehamel »

misnome wrote: post #5

Certainly interested in trying this, but FFS - give us an obvious image download link (there is one, but buried behind layers of "Buy this!" and "Run this script!"). I appreciate the (presumable) desire to make it easy for people to burn the image onto an SD card, but when I see this: > Please re-run this script with root privileges, i.e. 'sudo ./getrasplex.py' without any kind of explanation, or justification, just…

In response to your comments, I have updated the download page, and will change the installer.

http://rasplex.com/get-started/download.html

Re: Plex client for the Raspberry Pi

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Post by dalehamel »

misnome wrote: post #6

Hmm, so after trying this I'm not exactly impressed. The menu visibly lags and it just sits and... well, either does nothing or the screen goes blank when I try to play a relatively simple video. This is with a preexisting plex setup that works fine. I'm running on an original B, but the site mentions nothing about the split - so maybe it only works on the 512mb models (I really wish they had changed the name, though…

Also, I just ran a fully cached build of 0.1.27 and it works flawlessly on the 256MB pi.

Re: Plex client for the Raspberry Pi

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Post by saltedlolly »

Obviously it is early days for the project. It is currently very laggy and playing even SD videos is temperamental, but the project has huge potential and I'm sure with this much interest things will improve quickly. I look forward to seeing how things progress. The team has my support. Thanks for doing this!

Re: Plex client for the Raspberry Pi

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Post by dalehamel »

saltedlolly wrote: post #14

Obviously it is early days for the project. It is currently very laggy and playing even SD videos is temperamental, but the project has huge potential and I'm sure with this much interest things will improve quickly. I look forward to seeing how things progress. The team has my support. Thanks for doing this!

SD videos should be fine after caching is complete. See FAQ

I have a better solution for caching being cooked up but it's at least a few weeks away.

Re: Plex client for the Raspberry Pi

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Post by jwilker2 »

Thanks for putting this together. Running TVMOBILI on the rev. 2 pi after some head scratching not free and by no means perfect. I'm very interested in this project and will be watching carefully. I'm thinking to pair this with an SSD, clearly that would soak up much of the 'lag'.
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