Hello,
First of all, thank you for all your efforts. Version 1.30 is really impressive, and already very usable.
What I am wondering, would RasPlex benefit from the MPEG-2 and VC-1 codes which can be purchased from Raspberry pi directly, and if so when precisely?
I mainly use rasplex to play 720p or 1080p mkv files, and an eventual dvd or divx file.
Cheers,
Darkpassenger.
An MPEG2 licence would be good if you want to play DVD files without transcoding, it may also prove to be vital for the live TV implementation (dependant upon your region and TV backend hardware).
I am not sure about the VC-1 codec.
An MPEG2 licence would be good if you want to play DVD files without transcoding, it may also prove to be vital for the live TV implementation (dependant upon your region and TV backend hardware).
I am not sure about the VC-1 codec.
Thank you.
Theory is that you can buy thoses licences and put them in config.txt.
reality check is that most people i know who bought it didn't really got it working :)
works on raspbmc just fine
I bought the MPEG2 licence and it works fine for me.
Thanks for the information, I will give it a try myself.
Theory is that you can buy thoses licences and put them in config.txt.
reality check is that most people i know who bought it didn't really got it working :)
actually the VC-1 its needed if you wanna play .wmv or any microsoft video file without transcoding on the server,
Raspbmc now includes these codecs for free as they have been cracked. Will rasplex do this also?
Raspbmc now includes these codecs for free as they have been cracked. Will rasplex do this also?
You may want to take a closer look at the date of that announcement. Spoiler: April Fools.
You may want to take a closer look at the date of that announcement. Spoiler: April Fools.
Doh!
So how are you supposed to edit the config.txt file on rasplex since it is read-only. Also I suppose it will get overwritten on update?
I was able to get the the codecs to work by editing the config.txt as below, but this will probably get overwritten by update.
mount /flash -o remount,rw vi /flash/config.txt mount /flash -o remount,ro
I've never had any problems editing the config.txt file of RasPlex and other RPi releases using normal editors on the same PC I use to install the release to an SDcard.Doh!
So how are you supposed to edit the config.txt file on rasplex since it is read-only. Also I suppose it will get overwritten on update?
The primary boot partition of that SDcard remains readable even after installing an RPi release on it (which I do using the "Win32 Disk Imager" tool). So I simply open the config.txt file of that partition in my usual text editor and use this to modify or insert the config variables I want (I use UltraEdit, but most others should do it fine).
Just make sure that any variable definitions you insert are not followed by other definitions of the same variables, as that would nullify your changes. This happened to me a few times, though not with the license keys. The same variable was defined and redefined in two places of the original config.txt file, so when I just replaced the first instance, unaware of any other following later in the file, my changes had no effect...
Best regards: dlanor
Mounted sd card in windows and there is no config.txt file. Any suggestions?
I have same issue with rasplex and openelec setups.
Mounted sd card in windows and there is no config.txt file. Any suggestions?
I have same issue with rasplex and openelec setups.
Are you sure that the mounting worked correctly ?
Please describe the directory listing you can see when you open the card in a normal 'Windows Explorer' window.
Another thing to consider is what your Windows configuration will allow you to see in any directories.
For example, one common default setting is to hide the type extension of all files.
And with that setting the filename will be shown merely as "config", since the ".txt" part is hidden.
To be sure of exactly what files you are working with you should always configure Windows to not hide the filename type extensions.
This setting is found in the "Folder Options" dialog box, which can be opened from the "Tools" submenu of a "Windows Explorer" window.
In that dialog you find the relevant option in the "View" tab, where it's usually named "Hide extensions for known file types" (or similar).
Here is an example screenshot I made from a "Windows Explorer" listing of an SDcard with a RasPlex setup:
NB: The icons shown will differ depending on what applications you have associated with the file types.
Best regards: dlanor
Thank you dlanor for the reply.
So I made progress, but not sure why am seeing this behavior. Both my Rasplex and Openelec SD cards when pulled from RasberryPi units and mounted in Windows (showing known extensions and not hiding system files) do not show the config.txt file. I pulled a blank SD card and ran the Rasplex installer and loaded image rasplex-0.2.2.img. When I go to the SD card I now see the darn config.txt file.....Is this config.txt file only acessible once first configured but then when inserted into the Pi and booted it moves to a new dir/folder?
Added the license values to config.txt. Booted Pi and conected from windows box via SSH - ran vcgencmd codec_enabled MPG2 and I get VCHI initialization failed.
Started new thread so this one does not get too messy.
http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/78345-vchi-initialization-failed/
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