I have an AppleTV4 running Plex and it works fine but can’t bitstream 7.1 or ATMOS etc so I’m not looking to install Plex Home Theater on something since I tested that with a work laptop and it was slick. My two main questions though are assuming i use RasPlex on a Pi2 what remote should I be looking at since I don’t use CEC and are we sure this has the power to play full 1080P videos without buffering? I plan on using an iPad power block and a fairly fast mSD card.
@Prattalot said:
I have an AppleTV4 running Plex and it works fine but can’t bitstream 7.1 or ATMOS etc so I’m not looking to install Plex Home Theater on something since I tested that with a work laptop and it was slick. My two main questions though are assuming i use RasPlex on a Pi2 what remote should I be looking at since I don’t use CEC
I use this remote. I tried several and this one had the most functional keys out the box.
I created a custom keyboard.xml file to add some functionality.
and are we sure this has the power to play full 1080P videos without buffering? I plan on using an iPad power block and a fairly fast mSD card.
I direct play 1080p videos all the time on the Pi2. 7.1 audio does work as well. See @NedtheNerd guide to configuring the audio settings on it here:
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Probably should look at this thread for atmos:
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/204495/will-rasplex-bitstream-atmos#latest
Thanks. I have it setup and working great. Now I just need to wait for bitstream to be fully supported.
@Prattalot said:
Thanks. I have it setup and working great. Now I just need to wait for bitstream to be fully supported.
Bitstreaming of ATMOS and all the other HD formats won’t happen, the best the RPi2 can do for these formats is decode the audio in software and send the PCM stream to your receiver.
Is that a limitation of the Pi2 or software? I think I’m beginning to see it will never be capable on a Pi2 in which case I may need to switch back to a windows box (yuk).
It is a limitation of the RPi2 firmware. DTS and Dolby apparently won’t give licenses to non Blu-ray devices for their HD formats either, so the software decode and PCM output for 7.1 formats is probably as good as it will get for most non disc players.
So is it possible if I used PHT (or PMS) on desktop hardware running either windows or some variant of linux?
Atmos from Dr Who?
