can confirm its working on my pi 3 B+. great. so now it only needs some performance tweaks to UI. and a menu for administrate wifi and other basic things… then you have nailed it for me,…
UI performance tweaks is coming.
Wifi is anotherthing, we have tried internally to add that but that led to various problems.
We’ll continue trying to add this, although be patient, it could take a while 
Unwatchable using generic x86, Constantly dropped frames on latest nightly release.
cant wait for the UI performance tweaks. Currently jerky
@tendyfish said:
cant wait for the UI performance tweaks. Currently jerky
Ditto - playback is smooth but navigation is terrible.
@Xen0sys said:
@tendyfish said:
cant wait for the UI performance tweaks. Currently jerkyDitto - playback is smooth but navigation is terrible.
Agreed. Is there anything we can do to overclock and increase performance in the UI? The actual video is buttery smooth, and the UI isn’t terrible once it gets loaded. Can the thumbnails be cached or something to speed up the UI loading?
Rasplex has a caching feature specifically to help with this. No reason PMP can’t.
Rasplex call it “precaching”. Works very well. It must be easy to incorporate to PMP. Any devs around?
@LongChair That release is very buggy - constantly freezing (4-5 times a day). Many times media fails to start and gets into this jerky play/pause loop that ultimately requires pulling the plug also.
yeah i was saw that too… a lot of freezes and sometimes while movie is playing, it wont react to remote control. needing a hot plug again… my wife is killing me! 
im bacj to openpht… man, that is stable…
i just really like it to work, but for almost 2 years of testing several builds its still bugge as ■■■■… i mean… its like PlexMediaPlayer has some sort of disfunctional from the beginning… you guys keep release bug fixes after bug fixes but for some reason it feels like its never getting better…
sometimes its better to give up than pretending its gonna be fine, when its not…
…just wish that it would be as stable as Openpht is…
One thing you guys at plex is really good at;
To be super silent in the forums…
Your biggest mistake was killing pht, and then promise after promise where broken… i mean, if you where my girlfriend you have been replaced around december 2015…
ooh my, 2015… AND ITS NOW 2018!!
You owe me 3 years of my spare time. (Not my life).
Yes… i am bitter… and angry… i have paid for something in 3 years i didnt really got…
Thank you!
PMP works flawlessly on good hardware. Pi’s are cheap crap which is the main issue.
@LongChair That release is still very buggy - constantly freezing (4-5 times a day). Many times media fails to start and gets into this jerky play/pause loop that ultimately requires pulling the plug also.
When is it going to get some necessary patches?
Hi @LongChair,
I’m testing these out on a raspberry pi 2b and 3b. The 2b has been running good for almost a week now. The 3b would start out fine but eventually it would become unresponsive and playback would start freezing, then I have to unplug it.
Other than that, the only issue I had is live tv doesn’t seem to take advantage of the mpeg-2 license purchase and the server will try to transcode to h264. The same tv source can be recorded with Plex dvr and then it will play back directly on the pi.
Would really love for direct live TV playback on the pi since it should be capable, and Plex is capable of sending a direct mpeg-2 stream since it works great on my Android devices.
Thanks!
Hello @Stweedo,
I have tried to use builds found here Index of /public-test/plexmediaplayer/embedded-testing/latest-full …and further down the tree. My understanding is that I am supposed to flash a clean SD card with the IMG file. Always no success, ending up with a Pi3B+ freezing on the rainbow display.
I managed to get a version of PMP running as a plug-in on an actual Kodi build but I am unable to do much with it as a headless unit driving my speakers (via HiFiBerry Amp2). The Kodi/PMPplug-in combo requires a monitor/kbrd/mouse to be usable and does not show as a media-fling target from any devices I run a Plex app on.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I’ve spent many hours on this. 
My understanding is that the 3b+ needs newer firmware for the PMP image to boot. To get the newest firmware you could install raspbian, and then after that is successfully installed and running you can try flashing your sd card with PMP again. Hope this helps.
Thank you so much for the reply, Stweedo.
I’m a rookie so I’m a bit confused as to the process…
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- I wipe the SD card (or use a blank one)
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- I take a Raspbian image and using DD on Linux or an imaging tool on Windows (e.g. Win32DiskImager), I flash the card with the Raspbian image.
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- I overwrite the complete Raspbian install on the SD card with an IMG file from the nightlies?
–> Won’t step 3 above destroy the Raspbian OS on the SD card?
- I overwrite the complete Raspbian install on the SD card with an IMG file from the nightlies?
Thank you again for the kind assistance.
Try this
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- I wipe the SD card (or use a blank one)
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- I take a Raspbian image and using DD on Linux or an imaging tool on Windows (e.g. Win32DiskImager), I flash the card with the Raspbian image.
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- Boot raspberry pi with raspbian sd card to update firmware on the pi.
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- I overwrite the complete Raspbian install on the SD card with an IMG file from the nightlies?
This will overwrite the raspbian install, but now the firmware is updated and the PMP should now boot.
Edit: I just looked, and post #3 in this thread explains it.
You are wonderful. Will add your step 3 to the process…
…and then completely wipe the SD card using the nightly IMG.
In other words, the upon boot, the Raspbian image writes firmware code to a tiny flash storage on the Pi3B+ ? Wow. If so, I completely missed that aspect in all my reading…
I should have mentioned that nowhere could I find an actual description / list of the directory tree that should exist on a Pi3B+ (or earlier) running PMP. Looked everywhere for that too.
