I'm interested to hear about live transcoding capabilities of the Pi2 with Plex Server. Is anyone planning on testing this with theirs? My QNAP TS-212 isn't beefy enough so my Plex Server is on AWS and streams/transcodes on the fly from my QNAP to clients, but would be nice to stop paying that $20pm and move the server locally!
Do the rasplex team plan on doing an open beta?
Also given that windows 10 on raspberry pi is going to have the plex app. Do you think it is going to be a competitor to rasplex on the pi?
I would also love this. Sadly, I don't think the change to the Pi2 will make any difference this respect. As far as I can tell it's a licensing issue. It's a shame because with this the Pi2 would be perfect. As it stands, I'm tempted to buy a NUC just so I can get the HD audio support.
I have not yet received my RPi2, but I have been told that it passes through all the HD audio tracks (DTS-MA/TrueHD/FLAC). Looking forward to see if that is true.
UPDATE: It is not true. DTS-HD MA and TrueHD does not work. The hardware supports it, but software does not.
I would also love this. Sadly, I don't think the change to the Pi2 will make any difference this respect. As far as I can tell it's a licensing issue. It's a shame because with this the Pi2 would be perfect. As it stands, I'm tempted to buy a NUC just so I can get the HD audio support.
NUC?
I have not yet received my RPi2, but I have been told that it passes through all the HD audio tracks (DTS-MA/TrueHD/FLAC). Looking forward to see if that is true.
I have my Pi2 so am just waiting on the new Rasplex release to test. I shall post my results.
for its price You can almost buy new mac mini…or two laptops
Yes, but the Mac Mini won't passthrough HD audio either.
Yes, but the Mac Mini won't passthrough HD audio either.
Mac Mini running OpenElec does HD
i understand that passthrough audio is very important (must have) thats why most android boxes doesnt do the trick (i’ve heard new ones on S812 chip does). but what is the problem with digital audio passthrough on mac mini or macbook…i haven’t
A Celeron NUC is £100. You'll need RAM but can run OpenELEC from a USB stick. It will do passthrough DTS-MA and TrueHD and also has CIR built-in.
Happy to hear good news......waiting for my own RPi2 ( maybe today ) and one silly question .... will it be possible to direct play 1080p mkv files + srt subs (like PHT on MacOSX) or only transcoding like on iOS ??
You can already do that on the current release.
Regards
I got one ordered.
is it still good practice to run off USB stick over SD card??
its gonna be powered off USB off the telly, HDMI to the telly and controlled by CEC with wired Ethernet.
No hasn't been any need to do that since 0.4.0, just use the SD card.
Regards
I would also love this. Sadly, I don't think the change to the Pi2 will make any difference this respect. As far as I can tell it's a licensing issue. It's a shame because with this the Pi2 would be perfect. As it stands, I'm tempted to buy a NUC just so I can get the HD audio support.
Passthrough of DTS and DD to a capable reciever has been part of Rasplex for over a year now, even on standard Pi's
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Passthrough of DTS and DD to a capable reciever has been part of Rasplex for over a year now, even on standard Pi's
Regards
Of DTS and DD, yes, but not DTS-MA and DD-TrueHD :)
Of DTS and DD, yes, but not DTS-MA and DD-TrueHD :)
Thanks, but OP merely stated HD.
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Says who ?Also given that windows 10 on raspberry pi is going to have the plex app.
I hope you realize that it is NOT a normal desktop OS version of Windows 10 that will be available for the RPi2.
There will be NO generic app launcher, capable of launching generic Windows 10 apps at our whim.
As I understand it Windows 10 IoT is pretty much the Windows equivalent of a 'headless' Linux distro, with the added handicap for the RPi2 of having it run on an entirely different CPU than what most Windows software is designed and compiled for. The intended use is to supply operating system support for embedded applications, which will still most likely need to be developed or ported for this particular platform. Simply taking the existing app and launching it on an RPi2 with Windows 10 IoT is not going to work.
If it ever is implemented in well-running form for the RPi2, then yes, that would of course become a competitor.Do you think it is going to be a competitor to rasplex on the pi?
But whether or not that will ever happen remains to be seen.
Best regards: dlanor
Says who ?
I hope you realize that it is NOT a normal desktop OS version of Windows 10 that will be available for the RPi2.
There will be NO generic app launcher, capable of launching generic Windows 10 apps at our whim.
As I understand it Windows 10 IoT is pretty much the Windows equivalent of a 'headless' Linux distro, with the added handicap for the RPi2 of having it run on an entirely different CPU than what most Windows software is designed and compiled for. The intended use is to supply operating system support for embedded applications, which will still most likely need to be developed or ported for this particular platform. Simply taking the existing app and launching it on an RPi2 with Windows 10 IoT is not going to work.
If it ever is implemented in well-running form for the RPi2, then yes, that would of course become a competitor.
But whether or not that will ever happen remains to be seen.
Best regards: dlanor
Spot on description here.
Not only will any existing plex app for windows not run on this architecture, but someone would have to go out or their way to reproduce the work we've done in rasplex to make an ARM port of plexHT on windows. It's enough of a pain to build windows desktop apps, I don't see why anyone would invest a substantial amount of effort into getting plexHT to run in windows on arm. You can't just check a button in visual studio to say "ok, make this code work well on arm now". It's almost certainly not on the official plex team's roadmap, and it's definitely not on ours.
That being said, if someone did decide to port plexht to ARM windows 10, I'd be very impressed and would invite them to join the rasplex project rather than compete with us. I don't see a point in competing with a project that's trying to complete the same goal as us. We'd be using the same code, and contributing to the same repositories. The Open Source community is nothing like the commercial software ecosystem. It makes more sense to share and work together than it does to compete with someone trying to do the same thing as you.
Spot on description here.
Not only will any existing plex app for windows not run on this architecture, but someone would have to go out or their way to reproduce the work we've done in rasplex to make an ARM port of plexHT on windows. It's enough of a pain to build windows desktop apps, I don't see why anyone would invest a substantial amount of effort into getting plexHT to run in windows on arm. You can't just check a button in visual studio to say "ok, make this code work well on arm now". It's almost certainly not on the official plex team's roadmap, and it's definitely not on ours.
That being said, if someone did decide to port plexht to ARM windows 10, I'd be very impressed and would invite them to join the rasplex project rather than compete with us. I don't see a point in competing with a project that's trying to complete the same goal as us. We'd be using the same code, and contributing to the same repositories. The Open Source community is nothing like the commercial software ecosystem. It makes more sense to share and work together than it does to compete with someone trying to do the same thing as you.
There are rumors that the Windows 10 IOT sku may run Universal (ie. modern, metro) apps. If that ends up being true, it's not likely a port of PlexHT but instead the Windows 8 version of Plex (which is inferior to PlexHT imho)
