# plexbmc pi will not work when transcoding

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexbmc-pi-will-not-work-when-transcoding/22250>\
**Category:** Apps & Creations\
**Tags:** other-third-party\
**Created:** [October 13, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexbmc-pi-will-not-work-when-transcoding/22250 "2012-10-13T14:01:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![netmonky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/77aa72/32.png) [@netmonky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/netmonky)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexbmc-pi-will-not-work-when-transcoding/22250/1 "2012-10-13T14:01:05Z")

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Hi All,  
  
  
  
Wonder if you can help. I have a media pc at home and work away a few days a week. I purchased a raspberry Pi and installed xbmc with the plex addon version 2.0. The addon works wonders with my online account a streams great but uses the full upstream of my home broadband connection (5Mb - not nice for the rest of the house :-)). i tried to turn on transcoding on the PI and scaled it to 320Kbps but now i just get a black screen . The plx media servers looks to be streaming it out as the bandwidth counters are counting up but just a black screen on the Pi.   
  
  
  
Can anyone help me configure this so it works?  
  
  
  
I tested this ona windows pc, mac and phone and all seem to transcode without issue so I am guessing its a problem with the plugin. Anyone else have this issue?

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**Author:** ![netmonky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/77aa72/32.png) [@netmonky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/netmonky)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 10:20am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexbmc-pi-will-not-work-when-transcoding/22250/2 "2012-10-17T10:20:41Z")

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This works if you downgrade XBMC 😉

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexbmc-pi-will-not-work-when-transcoding/22250/3 "2019-12-20T22:19:45Z")

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