The difference between the one in [community] and the one in my repo is that the former was built against our ffmpeg-compat instead of the ffmpeg plex ships (which is over 9000 years old). I still haven't rebuilt the one in my repo to reflect that change.
However, I don't experience the issue you're talking about. I can only test h264 (8/10bit) videos though, I don't have anything else in my library. This might be an ffmpeg problem rather than plex. I see there was a new release of ffmpeg 0.10, provided there is no soname bump, it should land soon enough in our repos, maybe that'll fix it. Please keep using the one in my repo for the time being, also you might want to add plex-home-theater-git to the 'IgnorePkg' array in '/etc/pacman.conf' so that it doesn't get updated when plex 1.2.3 is out, packages in that repo are built automatically when there's a new release, and the next one will incorporate my changes.
Thanks for the update. Makes sense that it could be an ffmpeg problem. I'll keep you posted if I notice any changes, and I'm going to see if there's a difference with clean config files when I get the chance.
I’m afraid the issue persists even after the ffmpeg update. Any idea what might be a good place for me to start debugging? If not, I’ll just wait for the next version and see if there’s a difference - the current one works well enough
Hmm, does it affect all types of videos? Did you try playing them in a ffmpeg based player like mplayer or mpv (I don't know of any ffmpeg-0.10 video player though)? The culprit could be harware decoding as well, maybe try to disable it in plex if it's active.
Good call - seems the VAAPI decoder (in this version of ffmpeg I guess?) was the culprit. I pretty much only have h264 video, so haven’t had the chance to test any other codecs.
Weird, both were built against the same libva. If you really need hardware decoding though, you can use VDPAU with about anything nowadays, see here. In any case, I can confirm VAAPI is borked on intel hardware, unfortunately VDPAU (via libvdpau-va-gl) greets me with a black screen on my intel laptop. My NVIDIA desktop seems unaffected, both VAAPI (via libva-vdpau-driver) and VDPAU work.
I have the same problem with VDPAU on my Intel GPU (HD 3000) – guess I'll just have to use software decoding for a while. Thanks for helping me look into this!
I'm trying to set up plex-home-theater, but it doesn't connect to Plex.tv or find my server on the local network. If I specify the IP address manually I still only get 'Search' 100 times on the main screen.
I have run into an error with starting plexhometheater...
~]$ /usr/bin/plexhometheater.sh
plexhometheater: error while loading shared libraries: libavformat.so.53: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
theguyofdoom: Are you sure you're not blocking any traffic with a firewall? Can you ping your server?
davidbrooke: If you built plex against that lib it should find it, unless you built it in a different environment with another version of it. Might also be that the lib is not in the ld path, but I highly doubt it. Did you check which version of that lib you have installed?
Sorry for digging out an old topic but I need some help.
I have a basic Arch install completed (base base-devel openssh) and configured the WiFi adapter. Everything is working. However, I think some things have changed (like PHT no longer installed to /opt/plexhometheater, correct?).
Can someone provide high level instruction for getting PHT running on it (dependencies, user accounts, perms, service script, etc.)? I am comfortable with installing packages but the user account pieces are a bit foreign to me.
FYI...I have done absolutely NOTHING other than what is listed above. I have not created a plex user...I have not installed any xorg stuf or vid drivers (this has an Intel chipset) or other requirements.
has anyone had any luck compiling an ARM version of PHT? just popped in a new microSD card in my cubox, installed arch (er, alarm i guess) and now i'm discovering that this is rather a tall order. don't have too much experience with whether just changing architecture to arm will work, or if it's going to be a more involved process than that which i don't want to get into.
There's no longer any pht git package in my repo because it was useless, and no, there's no arm in there anyway. You'll have to build it yourself, if that's even possible. I don't have any ARM device here so I never tried.
There's no longer any pht git package in my repo because it was useless, and no, there's no arm in there anyway. You'll have to build it yourself, if that's even possible. I don't have any ARM device here so I never tried.
Would be helpful if you changed your original post to make it more accurate then .. ;)
I will try building it myself ... ARM is definitely the way to go , I already have the server running on an ARM box drawing just 2..7Watts fully transcoding .... :)
