1.27 seems to playback 1080p fine now but sometimes now 720 or 1080p plays right away but shows a black screen
how can i insert a mpeg lic# seems some of the unsupported channels like porrn hub play sound but no video, Im sure this is what they are missing
ui still lags when you go back to main menu
any fix on the little pop that comes on before movie plays in my sound system this is very noticable
1080p loads in 4 sec 720p loads in 2 sec much faster than a roku! Great Job!! Once we get netflix and hulu support im ditching the roku
No freezes or reboots yet either
By the way, if you get black screen during playback, try forcing a cache warmup by scrolling through "all movies" and "all tv shows". goes pretty fast now.
My theory is that there is background caching that gets a near exclusive lock on the renderer for images, and OMX can't get it until the caching process cools down, so it's especially bad on first boot.
I'm sure you've heard this a ton, but thanks so much for your hard work on this. :)
Questions:
1) Should it take a stupidly long time to write an image to my SD card with dd (OS X)? Like... 40+ minutes to write the .24 img.
2) What, if anything, can I do about videos stopping to buffer every few seconds on 1080p videos? I'm guessing that running over wifi is my problem, and would happily drop my bitrate a bit if that would fix things, but all I see in the settings is the ability to set a single bitrate (is that the max? min? only? Gah!)
I'm sure you've heard this a ton, but thanks so much for your hard work on this. :)
Questions:
1) Should it take a stupidly long time to write an image to my SD card with dd (OS X)? Like... 40+ minutes to write the .24 img.
2) What, if anything, can I do about videos stopping to buffer every few seconds on 1080p videos? I'm guessing that running over wifi is my problem, and would happily drop my bitrate a bit if that would fix things, but all I see in the settings is the ability to set a single bitrate (is that the max? min? only? Gah!)
:)
Thanks!
It should not take that long. What class SD? Usually about 10 mins for me. You can speed it up by increasing the block size.
It should not do that anymore. This may be related to DTS audio problem - try disabling DTS audio. Also, apparently 0.1.27 is better for HD.
I'm still having issues with the iOS remote disappearing after a period of time with the latest release. I've ssh'd into the Pi and the plexhometheatre process is using almost 100% cpu.
PlexHomeTheatre log has been attached. I'm using the 2A power supply produced by RS and I don't have this issue with the XMBC iOS app when running raspbmc.
It's possible by downloading the corresponding archive from the sourceforge auto-update section and replacing the SYSTEM and kernel.img on the fat partition with the files from the archives target directory.
I'll write a more detailed wiki-page later today on how to do such manual updates. (Maybe there will be a GUI-Tool to allow such updates in the future too)
Love the project guys, keep up the excellent work. This, if you ask me, has some of the greatest potential of any of the Pi projects.
So i'm not the only one with the black screens then.
Can you keep an eye on it and let me know if it keeps happening? It stopped for me.
I have an idea for the audio pop, just haven't implemented it yet.
By the way, if you get black screen during playback, try forcing a cache warmup by scrolling through "all movies" and "all tv shows". goes pretty fast now.
My theory is that there is background caching that gets a near exclusive lock on the renderer for images, and OMX can't get it until the caching process cools down, so it's especially bad on first boot.
I too am experiencing the black screens during playback. I am on 1.27 (just installed an hour ago). The audio will play but the screen will be black for ANY video for me. 1080, 720, 480...all the same. I did find that if I force transcode, I can play just fine. Let me know if you would like me to test/try anything else. Thanks again and keep up the great work!
Love the project guys, keep up the excellent work. This, if you ask me, has some of the greatest potential of any of the Pi projects.
I too am experiencing the black screens during playback. I am on 1.27 (just installed an hour ago). The audio will play but the screen will be black for ANY video for me. 1080, 720, 480...all the same. I did find that if I force transcode, I can play just fine. Let me know if you would like me to test/try anything else. Thanks again and keep up the great work!
Can you try forcing it to cache? To do this, scroll through "All Movies" and "All TV Shows".
After caching, black screen problem disappears.
We'll solve the actual problem as soon as we know exactly what is causing it, but it definitely seems like some sort of resource contention related to caching.
Can you try forcing it to cache? To do this, scroll through "All Movies" and "All TV Shows".
After caching, black screen problem disappears.
We'll solve the actual problem as soon as we know exactly what is causing it, but it definitely seems like some sort of resource contention related to caching.
I did the force cache and still did not have any luck. I do however, have quite a big library. Does the force cache need to happen at each reboot?
I have a problem getting wifi to work. I really dont understand how to get it to work but i have been trying alot. But i cant seem to understand how todo it right. I'm jusing the D-Link DWA-131.
So I have gotten the BSOD, and I think you are right about some contention. So in my logs when it tries to show video I get nothing but "ERROR: Output - renderer not started" It does look like it is doing some caching at the sametime, "COMXCoreComponent::Initialize : OMX.broadcom.image_encode handle 0xa25aa688 dllopen : 1", so maybe it is using the video chip to encode the thumbnails locking out the actual video playing. If I let it sit at the screen I was at until I do not see any requests for images, then it worked.
So I've re flashed with .27 and left everything cache for an hour or so, and the interface is so responsive - fanouts appear almost instantly when switching between categories. CPU usage is hovering between 25-50% where as when the interface is extremely laggy, it hovers at almost 100% utilization (raspbmc states CPU usage should be around 20%).
So I have gotten the BSOD, and I think you are right about some contention. So in my logs when it tries to show video I get nothing but "ERROR: Output - renderer not started" It does look like it is doing some caching at the sametime, "COMXCoreComponent::Initialize : OMX.broadcom.image_encode handle 0xa25aa688 dllopen : 1", so maybe it is using the video chip to encode the thumbnails locking out the actual video playing. If I let it sit at the screen I was at until I do not see any requests for images, then it worked.
Yes BSOD seems to be a temporary issue that resolves itself. I haven't seen it again since the initial caching etc.
Just found RasPlex... looked a few months ago and found nothing... and now this far along... GREAT..
So here is the "help me" part... has anyone got this working with the stock Wi-Pi adapter? Purchased my pi with the Wi-Pi dongle and cannot get it working using wlan0 or wlan1... correct ssid.. correct password, both DHCP and Static attempted, router doesn't see any attempt.
