The decisive reason for transcoding is not per se the format, codec or what every your media is in. The RasPi will even serve (not yet existing) 16k files for you just fine. To be more precise, I expect it to serve streams up to 50 MB/s without problem (a single one of course). That is close to the originals on the next generation bluerays. The PMS does not care about the content of the data stream.
The problem arises when you player (work station, TV set, mobile device,…) is not able to display the content of the media files you have. Then the PMS is used to transcoded the data into a suitable format.
Hence, the question is, whether your old files are using codecs which your devices accept.
Example: An old NTSC (480 lines) file encoded in mpeg2 will not play on an iPad without transcoding. The RasPi (2 or 3) will only be able to convert that into a low quality 720 kb/s (320 lines) file on the fly. If that is good enough or not depends on you.
On the other hand, you might have a 4k file (20-30 MB/s) from somewhere which your TV set can display natively. No problem as long as the bandwidth from the RasPi to the TV set is large enough.
It is only the compatibility of your end device with the file format which matters, as long as there is no bandwidth limit.
Added:
I should emphasize that it the video part which matters. Incompatible audio streams and container format are not problem for the RasPi. Subtitles are another can of worms.
hi all, I went to run an update today to get the new version of Plex but it doesn’t seem that the jessie repository has been updated, does anyone know when this will get updated or a way to update on the PI2?
@matrixgp I know that is the command, but it doesn’t look like Jessie jas been updated to the new version and I was asking if anyone knew when it would be, or a way to manually update.
Thanks
@SASSBS this question comes up a lot. If you are referring to the latest Plex pass version, uglymagoo does not put that in the repository as it is not available to all members. If you want the latest Plex pass version you will have to build it yourself as outlined here or wait for it to be available for non-Plex pass users.
I try to use this command but it always say me that I have the latest version 0.9.16.2. I follow the htpcguide to install it but I don’t know why everytime it downloads the previous version instead of 0.9.16.3. I have a raspberry pi 3
I try to use this command but it always say me that I have the latest version 0.9.16.2. I follow the htpcguide to install it but I don’t know why everytime it downloads the previous version instead of 0.9.16.3. I have a raspberry pi 3
Don’t forget that these are provided by members of the community not Plex Inc, they do this in their own time and have lives to live, give them some slack, it will be ready when its ready.
I try to use this command but it always say me that I have the latest version 0.9.16.2. I follow the htpcguide to install it but I don’t know why everytime it downloads the previous version instead of 0.9.16.3. I have a raspberry pi 3
Don’t forget that these are provided by members of the community not Plex Inc, they do this in their own time and have lives to live, give them some slack, it will be ready when its ready.
Regards
Thank you so much!
I have other doubt. As I mentioned, I have a raspberry pi 3 with PSM. I have a lot of films with subtitles embedded and when I try to turn on subtitles, PSM crash and don’t let me to watch any film or series until I erase the library and load it again. Do you have any idea why it could be happened? I read about some fonts but I don’t find the path of this files.
I try to use this command but it always say me that I have the latest version 0.9.16.2. I follow the htpcguide to install it but I don’t know why everytime it downloads the previous version instead of 0.9.16.3. I have a raspberry pi 3
Don’t forget that these are provided by members of the community not Plex Inc, they do this in their own time and have lives to live, give them some slack, it will be ready when its ready.
Regards
Thank you so much!
I have other doubt. As I mentioned, I have a raspberry pi 3 with PSM. I have a lot of films with subtitles embedded and when I try to turn on subtitles, PSM crash and don’t let me to watch any film or series until I erase the library and load it again. Do you have any idea why it could be happened? I read about some fonts but I don’t find the path of this files.
Disable subtitle hardcode or something like that on server setup via plex Web.
@blindpet I knew that the plex pass version never worked but I am on Version 0.9.15.6 but the latest normal version is Version 0.9.16.3 when I run the commands they say I have the latest version.
I was just wondering if anyone knew when the repo would have been updated as it’s usually instantly
As i had problems transcoding on my external HDD i used a guide from htpcguide to change the user plex is running as from plex to pi. This of course force me to rescan the library… i would like to uninstall plex and start over fresh to get rid of the metadata already that is already on my sd card.
yet after reinstalling pms via sudo apt-get install plexmediaserver it still hat all the settings from before the uninstallation… Does anyone know how i can get rid of EVERYTHING regarding plexmediaserver (without destroying plexpy if it has anything to do with it ;))
Edit 1: OK i dont get it… i tried everything to remove everything… right now there is NO /var/lib/plexmediaserver folder but the application runs just fine anyway. Whats wrong?! The second i change the user from plex to pi every metadata reappears… so there must be some place where plex stores metadata for a different user (in my case the user “pi”).
How can i get completely rid of this?!
Edit 2: Ok this seems to be the culprit: /home/pi/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases/
Is there anything like this for the user “plex” i used the server with before changing it to “pi”? I want to get rid of all the metadata.
@noreason said:
yet after reinstalling pms via sudo apt-get install plexmediaserver it still hat all the settings from before the uninstallation… Does anyone know how i can get rid of EVERYTHING regarding plexmediaserver (without destroying plexpy if it has anything to do with it ;))
Delete the “Library” directory in the home of your pi user (presumably /home/pi/Library).
@SASSBS I would double check your repository file exists in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pms.list because something isn’t quite right. Any errors with apt-get update?
@noreason said:
Is there anything like this for the user “plex” i used the server with before changing it to “pi”? I want to get rid of all the metadata.
PMS uses the home folder of the user it is running as, in the default configuration. /var/lib/plexmediaserver is the home of the user plex, while /home/pi is the home of your user pi. So that’s why your meta data was stored in /home/pi/Library.
Does anyone know why i have no /var/lib/plexmediaserver folder? The system seems to run fine but i tried to uninstall it again and it got me an error message regarding the missing var/lib/plexmediaserver… What is this folder usually used for? :-/
