Been using Plex on Mac's mini's for years now, all served up via unRaid, no issues. Got totally excited when I heard about RasPlex but so far its been an anti-climax. I appreciate its beta but.
I have a 512Mb Pi, 8Gb class 10 SD card on ethernet. I've tried 0.1.30, 35, 36 and 37. Haven't had stability on any of them, managed to play a couple of movies once. Symptoms are just random freezing, lag, not waking up from sleep or that horrible can't mount disk error on boot up. Just tried 0.1.35 and just got a repeating RasPlex loading screen (flashed on and off in a loop). Tried a different power supply and it booted up but hung on the second step of the wizard.
From reading here this thing works, so I'm not understanding why I'm having such difficulty. I've tried two power supplies, one that was the recommended one from Amazon and an Apple iPad charger.
I could not get a working wifi-connection with the dongle that shipped with the Pi however. A different one (Edimax) works well. Read somewhere that freezes may be caused by overclocking and weak powersupplies.
Did you try to measure the current on the board to se how many volts you get? modmypi.com and adafruit both have a charger delivering 5.25 volts and that makes a difference and also the usb to micro usb wire is a place to check in order to get enough voltage.
also the wifi dongle if you are using one, with a cheep 150mbps my pi won't play anything but with a netgear 300mbps it plays blurry remux files (25-27GB files with DTS)
Did you try to measure the current on the board to se how many volts you get? modmypi.com and adafruit both have a charger delivering 5.25 volts and that makes a difference and also the usb to micro usb wire is a place to check in order to get enough voltage.
also the wifi dongle if you are using one, with a cheep 150mbps my pi won't play anything but with a netgear 300mbps it plays blurry remux files (25-27GB files with DTS)
Seemed to have mislaid my voltage meter, not that I was any good as using it.
The power supply from Amazon is a Motorola one, says output 5.1v = 850mA. The Apple one says output 5.1v = 2.1a. So is the Motorola one under powered?
Seemed to have mislaid my voltage meter, not that I was any good as using it.
The power supply from Amazon is a Motorola one, says output 5.1v = 850mA. The Apple one says output 5.1v = 2.1a. So is the Motorola one under powered?
The voltage is the most harmful number and needs to be the correct amount. The current can be whatever you want, as the Raspbeery Pi will only take what it needs. The spec on my 512mb, b type pi is 5V @ 700mA.
The quality of this delivery is also important, so if you are having stability issues a good start would be to try a new power supply.
Also, check the overclock on it. Dynamic may be enabled by default (mine was) and can cause corruption/instability.
The voltage is the most harmful number and needs to be the correct amount. The current can be whatever you want, as the Raspbeery Pi will only take what it needs. The spec on my 512mb, b type pi is 5V @ 700mA.
The quality of this delivery is also important, so if you are having stability issues a good start would be to try a new power supply.
Also, check the overclock on it. Dynamic may be enabled by default (mine was) and can cause corruption/instability.
I just reformatted the card with 0.1.35 and uncommented the default non overclocking settings, was able to get as far as playing a movie although quite a few stutter and one just froze the Pi.
I think the Dynamic is enabled by default (force_turbo=0) so I'll try that next.
Are you using Lan or wireless? Are you using mouse and keyboard? Anything drawing power from usb? I would use the Apple charger, and you should find the shortest cable you Can find.
Are you using Lan or wireless? Are you using mouse and keyboard? Anything drawing power from usb? I would use the Apple charger, and you should find the shortest cable you Can find.
Lan and Plexapp. Nothing in the USB. Its a short cable.
So now I've got 0.1.36, uncommented the default non overclocking settings and disabled the turbo boost with the Apple charger - for the most part now its seems to be stable.
Movies are a bit hit n' miss though, all of the animated movies I've tried like Madagascar, Wall-E, Frankenweenie stutter and are unwatchable. They are all H.264 and AC5.1 audio. Things like Transformers, Lincoln etc work fine even though they are H.264.
So the films that don't work all have either 2 audio streams (ac5.1 + dts/dd) or single DTS/DD stream with a lower res core. Films that work just have a single ac5.1 encoding, nothing else. So it would seem like a transcoder issue.
So the films that don't work all have either 2 audio streams (ac5.1 + dts/dd) or single DTS/DD stream with a lower res core. Films that work just have a single ac5.1 encoding, nothing else. So it would seem like a transcoder issue.
Is this a known issue?
For the films that have two streams, what happens if you select a non-DTS stream?
did you try unplugging the lan cable and see how it behaves then? i know you wont be able to play any media. a bad network connection can render a pi completely useless.
