This release brings lots of improvements to the playback engine backported from Kodi Jarvis 16.1.
It is also the first release where OpenPHT and RasPlex is truly merged into one shared code base.
RasPlex is now more of a branding of the OpenPHT-Embedded builds for Raspberry Pi devices.
Important new features includes the addition of mmal decoding and support for installing/updating skins directly from the select skin dialog.
Big thanks to the beta and skinning teams for making this release the best one to date!
New
Updated branding and new splash screen
Transcode audio to AC3 for use with optical out
Improved gapless music support
Better 3D support
Preference option to disable preplay screen
Skin option to disable window and dialog fade animations
Music OSD added to default skin
Preference option to disable server side scaling of fanart and photos
Support for downloading, installing and updating supported skins in preferences
Updated seek handling with support for adaptive seeking and preview images
Previous menu and back button now switches to fullscreen when media is playing on home screen and vice versa
Support for MMAL decoding - now supports HiFiBerry/IQ DACs and USB device audio across all media
Transcode media larger then 1080p
Direct play of HEVC up to 720p
Exprimental Bluetooth Audio support - works without issue on RPi3, on RPi0/1/2 with BT dongle it is dependant on the make of dongle which must support BT V4.1 at minimum
Fixes
Fix filtered episodes view in default skin
Fix a shuffle all / create play queue issue
Fix a shoutcast redirect issue
Fix shoutcast stream title when ffmpeg avio is enabled
Fix audio and subtitle selection for media with multiple media items or parts
Avoid getting stuck in dim state when skin is reloaded
Fix wrong icon highlight and window switch in preferences menu
Right Question if someone could help me please how do i install Rasplex please on my new Pi 3 im looking to do it from my HTPC do i download from this link? or do i go to get Rasplex and choose windows Any help be great thanks
@nicknack35 said:
Right Question if someone could help me please how do i install Rasplex please on my new Pi 3 im looking to do it from my HTPC do i download from this link? or do i go to get Rasplex and choose windows Any help be great thanks
Get Rasplex, Choose Windows if that’s the OS running your HTPC. rPI2 version works for rPI3.
@Massaguana said:
after update and reboot i see only the “Rainbow screen”… waiting 5 minutes, nothing… hard restart… rainbow again…
Same here. @NedtheNerd , I was on rpi2 image for my rpi3, and used update from within rasplex, didn’t flash myself.
I think the update just uses rpi1 image …
@Massaguana said:
after update and reboot i see only the “Rainbow screen”… waiting 5 minutes, nothing… hard restart… rainbow again…
Same here. @NedtheNerd , I was on rpi2 image for my rpi3, and used update from within rasplex, didn’t flash myself.
I think the update just uses rpi1 image for update…
I can confirm the same issue with rpi2 image on rpi3. After the update only the Rainbow screen is shown.
Seems to be an issue with update server, which includes GetRasplex, please download the appropriate image from GitHub and flash using GetRasplex, using select file and choose the file you downloaded. Our apologies.
How do I see my RasPlex has updated? I checked the “About” in system settings where it says version devel-20160301002139-r20398-gbbe0cee is installed and the preferences where it says version 1.0.3.
Both on Stable and Pre-release it says no updates available… Is is already updated then or do I need to download the image and install my SD card manually?
@Limbids said:
How do I see my RasPlex has updated? I checked the “About” in system settings where it says version devel-20160301002139-r20398-gbbe0cee is installed and the preferences where it says version 1.0.3.
Both on Stable and Pre-release it says no updates available… Is is already updated then or do I need to download the image and install my SD card manually?
Something is wrong with the autoupdate. Please reflash your sd card with the new image manually.
Hello,
probably not the right place to say this but…
Before installing Rasplex 1.6.0 (I have 1.0.3) I decided to make a backup of the configuration. So from the UI I went to System Settings->System->Create System and OpenHT Backup.
That is a great thing.
The only issue is that it backups also caches and thumbnails, that are not necessary since they will be recreated when (if) needed.
So in the next version could you please exclude caches, thumbnails, etc. from the backup?
It could also be a good idea to compress the .tar to save even more space.
