Yea Im sure it will improve, You guys just got it running lol
Yeah right now the problem is that it looks too good but doesn't work well. We need to find a balance. Theoretically, we'll be able to make it look about as good as the desktop version with proper compression/redraw strategies.
I also think it looks ■■■■■■ on the roku ;)
Yeah my bad, it should be "-m" instead of "-a". -m is to make a home directory, which explains the problems that you saw. I updated the blog post accordingly.
I just tried the gui with your optimizations for the first time and it works MUCH better!
I think we need to patch the directory listing code to make it work a little more efficiently, but for now I think things are in a good enough state to start building OMXPlayer and testing playback!
You should join us at chat.srvthe.net in the plex channel - that's where I'm organizing folks who are helping out. We also have a trello board that I'd love to get you on https://trello.com/board/plex-on-raspberry-pi/510c4d34e1d17df66c00092a
Keep up the good work man!
What about joining us on Irc (chat.srvethe.net / #Plex) and trello ( https://trello.com/#board/plex-on-raspberry-pi/510c4d34e1d17df66c00092a) ?
We cannot promess chicks & beer, but there are some people with some good will there ! :)
No worries, I'll look into that tonight. I think I'm going to blow off setting it up myself and just use your image so I can get cracking with some more optimisation now. I kinda held off until I could actually see how each change affects performance in realtime. I'm hoping the caching or fanart was the main cause, in which case I'll start adding this to the other views and re-introducing them one by one. I think at very minimum I'll try setting infolist as the default and see how it performs. The straight list is a little TOO plain for my taste!
You rock man. I'll keep making it easier to setup/install/update in the meantime. I'm also actively trying to add OMXPlayer support too.
I have a feeling we'll also need to patch the source code directly to speed up some operations that were never considered to be slow before, but are now crippling on RPi.
Fantastic work Dale et al, especially with the regular updates so that everyone knows what is going on.I just have a question though, how does this tie in with what Thobias posted about Plex HT having Linux support? Is there in effect two groups working towards this goal or is there collaboration going on?
Ah okay one more question! Are you planning on keeping the Live TV stuff in the build?
Looking forward to the next few weeks and thanks for all the hard work.
I have a separate chatroom for Raspberry Pi, so that we don't reduce the signal to noise ratio in the plex linux channel.
I'm working with Tobias et all whenever necessary - they've been very helpful!
The end goal is to merge the RPi branch back in to the plex-home-theater-public repo - we have forked for now until we get a stable product. Our code is directly based of the linux support Tobias added, all I did was get it compiling on the Pi.
Live TV Stuff is a planned feature, but not high priority right now.
Playback is working in the latest binary via OMXPlayer. Including seeking, pausing, resuming, big jumps, small jumps.
So far, looks like OMXPlayer has no subtitle support? Odd. Maybe the gui option is just missing.
Haven’t tested audio, but I’m pretty sure that it will just be a firmware config option like it was for pyplex.
El Massman has new set of gui optimizations that I want to include in the next build, and I want to make sure I nail down a good procedure for updating builds.
I’ll spin a new image tomorrow / make a new blog post tomorrow after I get home from work… if I can wait that long. Anyone who has an existing image / is using the most recent on can update their plexht with:
emerge -avG plexht (the G is important - it says “go get a binary package”).
Special thanks to El Massman for all his hard work, and LongChair for being a guinea pig!
At this rate, we aren’t far from a working beta.
My RPi arrived today, I can’t wait to test this out 
This is fantastic news, I’ve had to put up with XMBC on my Pi 512mb, not that I have anything against XBMC but I just prefer plex, I prefer a backend server doing all the work and “lighter” clients.
I have a powerful file server and a dedicated multicore Linux box as my plex server/sbs server and various Linux boxes for testing things, I’ve just this minute put this on my Pi and am impressed so far with what I can see, I’m so happy there is work in progress with this as I think the Pi is the ideal device for Plex.
Keep up the good work and if I can help in any way I will.
Dale
If you feel like helping in the testing process or if you have any talent in coding / tuning skins/ linux related stuff, you can come over to irc channel #plex on irc.srvthe.net server 
A new SD card image is available (smaller that will fit on a 2Gb SD card) and includes the first version of the player.
Instructions are here http://blog.srvthe.net/archives/474.
There is one error in the image link though, use https://s3.amazonaws.com/plex-rpi/rasplex.img.zip until this is fixed
Going to try booting this up before I head into work!
Nice ! this image should also contain you last confluence skin :)
You should be able to work with it.
After that you'd need to use github so that the sync process is easier with everyone else :)
Definitely boots! Still seems to use mediastream though, and no textures other than images from the media, ie: thumbs. Think I might know what the cause of that is.
maybe mediastream is set by default, confluence should be in there from what dale said :)
didn't use this image yet, but planning to do so at noon
Wow another update, just downloaded this and will install it
On another note:
Playing around with a load of SD card’s today, on a mission to find the best one for the Pi,
As SD card’s are designed for cameras, they only excel on large chunks of data, 4k read write is what’s most important on the Pi, so higher class cards are actually worse as they are tuned for large chunks of data quickly.
