I have PMS running on Raspberry PI 2!

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Thank you @uglymagoo :slight_smile:

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Thanks to @rcombs the above libx264 patch will be included in an upcoming release. Keep your fingers crossed I got the right patch ^^

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@uglymagoo how can I choose from synology or netgear build with your installer?
Great work! I use Rasperry PI3

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@mag-data : uglymagooā€™s autoinstaller will look at your cpu features and then will decide which build to install : netgear or synology. Basically it does :

grep Features /proc/cpuinfo

If your cpu implements : neon, vfpv4 , thumb , idiva. , it will install the netgear one.
If not, the synology will be taken.

To force the synology build, I think you should get the neonless installer from his repo, but Iā€™m not sure about that since iā€™m using the netgear oneā€¦

Cheers

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@zenmod said:
grep Features /proc/cpuinfo

If your cpu implements : neon, vfpv4 , thumb , idiva. , it will install the netgear one.
If not, the synology will be taken.
To force the synology build, I think you should get the neonless installer from his repo, but Iā€™m not sure about that since iā€™m using the netgear oneā€¦

Iā€™ve raspberry p3

and it download:
Extracting readynas.deb ā€¦

this is the cpu info:
processor : 0
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 38.40
Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd03
CPU revision : 4

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I forget hardware:
Hardware : BCM2709
Revision : a02082

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@mag-data: ReadyNAS is the Netgearā€™s NAS product line. :slight_smile:

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Hey there everyone!
just upgraded to the readynas package. That is amazing, thx @uglymagoo
I can now optimize media as it should work. But there actually still is an issue. I canā€™t use on-the-fly transcoding. I know that a RasPi2 is not the fastest computer for transcondig but the PlexNewTranscoder process doesnā€™t even show up in top. In my opinion it should work since it optimizes media with like 1.2x speedsā€¦ I tried different clients (iOS/tvOS/WebPlayer) al the same. It does work though when I optimize the video first and then play itā€¦

Thanks for your great work again,
everybody have a good day
udogehrke

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@udogehrke We are aware of the issue and the probable fix was already acknowledged by the Plex team. It will be included in the next (or at least in one of the next) releases. Stay tuned :slight_smile:

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@uglymagoo great thank you
;:wink:

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Meanwhile the new build is not available, as stated here before, the way to have the transcode working in rpi2 is to downgrade the New Transcoder to 0.9.14.6. Iā€™ve just tested here and, besides a bit slow, itā€™s working without the SIGBUS error.

As a footnote : to get the New Transcoder of version 0.9.14.6 , Iā€™ve downloaded the synology 0.9.14.6 spk from the plex archive : http://bit.ly/1pPEQFB

To extract :

cd /tmp/
wget http://bit.ly/1pPEQFB
mkdir old

mv the downloaded spk to something like old.tar and then :

tar -xOf old.tar package.tgz | tar -xzf - -C old/

Then, get the old New Transcoder from old/Resources/Plex\ New\ Transcoder and replace the buggy New Transcoder.

Have fun!

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@zenmod thanks! it is working fine! :slight_smile:

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Woot! Fixed for me too zenmod!

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Hi guys !

I used to use Rasplex on my RPi and ran PMS on my laptop, which was working really well.

I recently got a Chromecast 2 for cheap, so it would be nice for me to put PMS on my RPI 2 and use the Chromecast as my primary client. 99% of my library is composed of h264 video files with external subtitles.

Would PMS on the RPI 2 be able to handle this setup or is it just not possible?

Thanks !

EDIT : I would control the chromecast with iOS devices and/or plex web client

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I donā€™t see why not. The subtitles may give it some trouble, as it has to transcode it seems when theyā€™re enabled, so itā€™ll just be off to a slow start but it should be fine.

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@ledge74 this is perfectly possible. The only remark is that , as you know, video transcoding is a heavy operation, and rpi2 has not enough power to transcode videos to larger resolutions. However, this is not a blocker : once you will be in a local network youā€™ll leverage the ā€˜direct playā€™ for video most of the time , and thus, rpi2 will work flawlessly. Just make sure that, in your iOS client to leave the Quality setting to ā€˜Unlimitedā€™.

Other than that, just grab @uglymagoo package and have fun!

Ps: I personally used the same setup : rpi2 and chromecast 1 with ext subs. No problem at all!
Cheers!

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Thanks @zenmod @finch106, I will try this and report !

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@ledge74 , cool! Btw, forgot to mention, thereā€™s a known bug on the plex ā€˜Newā€™ transcoder that itā€™s leading it to crash in rpi2 when doing video transcoding. As of today, to have the transcoder working, we are rolling back to and older built version, check this out http://bit.ly/1rXLc7K.
Cheers.

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Hi, i just finished installing plex from scratch. I got little problem on movies library, all of them got no poster like it used to be. But on tv show, all is normal.
I already try to change from freebase to other option but still no poster on all movies.

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@finch106 @zenmod I have successfully set up @uglymagoo 's PMS build on my RPi2 (along with Sonarr, Transmission, CouchPotato, Filebot, HTPC Manager, Monit and Sub-Zero) and the old New Transcoder.

I am really happy with the setup as I now have a fully automated media center at home.

Casting from iOS/Plex Web to my Chromecast 2 has worked seamlessly on every media I have tried while on my local network (each have external subtitles).

Iā€™m just wondering why the process is in case of updates? Should I update directly from Plex Web interface or should I wait for specific versions on another sources?

Thanks again!