Updating to 0.6.0 seems to have fixed the issue, but only for certain files. I'm unable to play any of my movies (which are typically higher bitrate).
I'm convinced that PMS is acting up. It's beach balling on OS X during startup for 2-3 minutes, and often tells me there was an error during update and to install manually. This persists despite having downloaded the latest version and installed.
Anything up to 20Mb/s should play OK, anything above that will transcode.
From what you describe you certainly have some issues with PMS from what you said, may be worth asking a Ninja if they have any recommendations for fixing you PMS, you may have to pull some sort logs.
Hi all, I only recently discovered Plex after I was having issues getting surround sound going with some movies using OSMC. Today I loaded the latest version of RasPlex, and am still not able to get it going. The issue I am having, like many others, is that Left, Right and Center work fine, but subwoofer, rear left & rear right donāt get audio.
My setup is a little different to what most people have i.t.o. my audio receiver only supporting DTS (and not AAC & AC-3). My setup is as follows:
RPI2<----HDMIā>Samsung 40D6600<-----TOSLINK------>Logitech Z5500
When enableing audio passthrough and ticking the DTS Capability checkbox, video clips with DTS encoding give me proper 5.1. Clips with any other audio encoding result in no joy.
I was hoping Iād be able to get PMS to transcode all audio streams to DTS. Is this possible?
@rainero84 said:
Thanks for your quick response!
tvservice -a outputs the following:
PCM supported: Max channels: 2, Max samplerate: 48kHz, Max samplesize 24 bits.
I guess this means there isnāt much I can do to get 5.1 audio via my TV?
I was surprised by your original post, are you sure you are getting 5.1 DTS output from your speakers, normally TVās can passthrough DD to the optical output but not DTS. Does your control unit for the Z5500 confirm that is receiving a DTS signal?
Try setting your Audio Output as follows:
Dolby Digital - Checked
DTS - Checked
Audio Output channels - 2.0 (as this only affects PCM, according to the User Manual for the Z5500 only 2 channel PCM is supported)
Play a DTS encoded movie sample and check the control unit displays āEffect - DTS Digitalā
Play a DD encoded movie sample and check the control unit displays āEffect - Dolby Digitalā
Play an AAC5.1 encoded movie sample and check what the control panel says (try this with channels set to both 2.0 and 5.1)
The first five clips: Z5500 Displays āDigitalā, PHT AUDIO is reported as AC3 5.1, the Dolby Digital icon is displayed
āTrainā clip: Z5500 displays āStereoā; PHT AUDIO is reported as AC3 5.1, the Dolby Digital icon is displayed
āPianoā Clip: Z5500 displays āPLII Movieā; PHT AUDIO is displayed as DTS 5.1, the DTS Digital Surround icon is displayed
āDTS - The Digital Experienceā clip: Z5500 does not play any audio (āNo Digital Inputā; PHT AUDIO is reported as DTS 5.1, the DTS Digital Surround icon is displayed
Itās a bit strange that the last clip doesnāt have any audio, and that the train clips only plays stereoā¦ But judging by this it seems like AC3 encoding + passthrough works fine?
@rainero84 said:
Thanks for your quick response!
tvservice -a outputs the following:
PCM supported: Max channels: 2, Max samplerate: 48kHz, Max samplesize 24 bits.
I guess this means there isnāt much I can do to get 5.1 audio via my TV?
I was surprised by your original post, are you sure you are getting 5.1 DTS output from your speakers, normally TVās can passthrough DD to the optical output but not DTS. Does your control unit for the Z5500 confirm that is receiving a DTS signal?
Try setting your Audio Output as follows:
Dolby Digital - Checked
DTS - Checked
Audio Output channels - 2.0 (as this only affects PCM, according to the User Manual for the Z5500 only 2 channel PCM is supported)
Play a DTS encoded movie sample and check the control unit displays āEffect - DTS Digitalā
Play a DD encoded movie sample and check the control unit displays āEffect - Dolby Digitalā
Play an AAC5.1 encoded movie sample and check what the control panel says (try this with channels set to both 2.0 and 5.1)
Regards
Bit late reply here, but NedtheNerd I think you are fully correct. Samsung TV does not passthrough digital signal received via HDMI. There are 2 options in the TV menu which you can choose: PCM and DTS Neo 2:5.
Last one is (as far as I can find out) just some sort of upmixing from stereo. Whats curious about this is that (also) my receiver displays DTS 5.1. I am guessing thatās the behaviour Rainero84 was seeing.
I just tried playing an avi file through raspPlex and it would pause every couple of seconds and then finally the audio dropped out. It wouldnāt play at all on my Samsung Plex client unless I set the mode to transcode.
Iāve been looking to see if there is a way to force transcoding in RaspPlex for individual files like there is on other players but I canāt seem to find it.
The video details are;
<MediaContainer size="1" allowSync="1" identifier="com.plexapp.plugins.library" librarySectionID="7" librarySectionTitle="Movies" librarySectionUUID="dc2616db-ceba-4c76-be17-5868c142cda0" mediaTagPrefix="/system/bundle/media/flags/" mediaTagVersion="1475532206">
<Video ratingKey="2179" key="/library/metadata/2179" guid="com.plexapp.agents.imdb://tt0086190?lang=en" librarySectionID="7" studio="Lucasfilm" type="movie" title="Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi" contentRating="PG" summary="As Rebel leaders map their strategy for an all-out attack on the Emperor's newer, bigger -- and dreaded --Death Star. Han Solo remains frozen in the cavernous desert fortress of Jabba the Hutt, the most loathsome outlaw in the universe, who is also keeping Princess Leia as a slave girl.Now a master of the Force, Luke Skywalker rescues his friends, but he cannot become a true Jedi Knight until he wages his own crucial battle against Darth Vader, who has sworn to win Luke over to the Dark side of the Force." rating="7.4" viewCount="1" lastViewedAt="1476590910" year="1983" tagline="The Empire Falls..." thumb="/library/metadata/2179/thumb/1397329028" art="/library/metadata/2179/art/1397329028" duration="8088289" originallyAvailableAt="1983-05-25" addedAt="1396982898" updatedAt="1397329028" chapterSource="">
<Media videoResolution="sd" id="2061" duration="8088289" bitrate="2071" width="720" height="304" aspectRatio="2.35" audioChannels="2" audioCodec="mp3" videoCodec="mpeg4" container="avi" videoFrameRate="24p" videoProfile="simple">
<Part accessible="1" exists="1" id="2066" key="/library/parts/2066/1240515420/file.avi" duration="8088289" file="/mnt/PlexMedia/MOVIES/SCI-FI/STAR WARS EPVI RETURN OF THE JEDI/STAR WARS EPVI RETURN OF THE JEDI.avi" size="2093399264" container="avi" deepAnalysisVersion="1" indexes="sd" requiredBandwidths="5571,5298,4556,3656,3155,2927,2892,2892" videoProfile="simple">
<Stream id="4274" streamType="1" codec="mpeg4" index="0" bitrate="1930" bitDepth="8" bvop="0" chromaSubsampling="4:2:0" codecID="DX50" duration="8088255" frameRate="23.976" gmc="0" height="304" level="1" pixelFormat="yuv420p" profile="sp" qpel="0" requiredBandwidths="5443,5170,4428,3527,3027,2799,2771,2771" scanType="progressive" width="720"/>
<Stream id="4275" streamType="2" selected="1" codec="mp3" index="1" channels="2" bitrate="128" audioChannelLayout="stereo" bitrateMode="cbr" codecID="55" duration="8088085" requiredBandwidths="129,129,129,129,129,129,129,129" samplingRate="48000" streamIdentifier="1"/>
</Part>
</Media>
</Video>
</MediaContainer>
Hi There
Im having issues with skipping/seeking on anything above pms 1.2.7. I tried PMS Version 1.4.3.3433 today no help. Seek some times works but is super slow
using windows 10 x64 with i7 and rasplex latest version
@lozt said:
Hi There
Im having issues with skipping/seeking on anything above pms 1.2.7. I tried PMS Version 1.4.3.3433 today no help. Seek some times works but is super slow
using windows 10 x64 with i7 and rasplex latest version
Iāve had the sameā¦ I donāt know the exact time that seeking stopped working so I canāt say for sure that PMS 1.2.7 is the point but itās been badā¦ Many times I would pull something up in Plex Web in order to skip to where I wanted to be, exit, and the resume on the RasPlexā¦ This, however, is now a huge issue because of bigger issues in 1.4.3.3433ā¦ Actually, I noticed that when I upgraded to PMS 1.4.2 my RasPlex never seems to know how long the video playing isā¦ So if I am playing a 45 min video the bar is always at 99% with only a few seconds remainingā¦ If Iām at 12 mins and 32 seconds the bar indicates that the video ends at something like 12 mins and 36 secondsā¦ same no matter where I am in the video. After the upgrade to PMS 1.4.3 my rasplex now canāt even resume a video if the location to resume is more than only a couple mins into itā¦ It will give me the option when I press play to āResume from 24:20ā or whatever, then it will say transcoding, switch to please waitā¦ and then just stopā¦ if the resume point is 2:30 or something like that, it usually can resume but the video is jumpy for about 10 seconds until it stabilizes.
My server is running on Ubuntu 12 LTS 32-bitā¦ Iām using a Pi 3.
@lozt said:
Hi There
Im having issues with skipping/seeking on anything above pms 1.2.7. I tried PMS Version 1.4.3.3433 today no help. Seek some times works but is super slow
using windows 10 x64 with i7 and rasplex latest version
Iāve had the sameā¦ I donāt know the exact time that seeking stopped working so I canāt say for sure that PMS 1.2.7 is the point but itās been badā¦ Many times I would pull something up in Plex Web in order to skip to where I wanted to be, exit, and the resume on the RasPlexā¦ This, however, is now a huge issue because of bigger issues in 1.4.3.3433ā¦ Actually, I noticed that when I upgraded to PMS 1.4.2 my RasPlex never seems to know how long the video playing isā¦ So if I am playing a 45 min video the bar is always at 99% with only a few seconds remainingā¦ If Iām at 12 mins and 32 seconds the bar indicates that the video ends at something like 12 mins and 36 secondsā¦ same no matter where I am in the video. After the upgrade to PMS 1.4.3 my rasplex now canāt even resume a video if the location to resume is more than only a couple mins into itā¦ It will give me the option when I press play to āResume from 24:20ā or whatever, then it will say transcoding, switch to please waitā¦ and then just stopā¦ if the resume point is 2:30 or something like that, it usually can resume but the video is jumpy for about 10 seconds until it stabilizes.
My server is running on Ubuntu 12 LTS 32-bitā¦ Iām using a Pi 3.
PMS 1.3.3 killed the seek and transcode by removing the metadata stream. Try Plexpass PMS 1.4.4 which returns the metadata to fix Chrome and Samsung TV clients. Our next Rasplex/OpenPHT release fixes the issues as well for all recent PMS versions.
@lozt said:
Hi There
Im having issues with skipping/seeking on anything above pms 1.2.7. I tried PMS Version 1.4.3.3433 today no help. Seek some times works but is super slow
using windows 10 x64 with i7 and rasplex latest version
Iāve had the sameā¦ I donāt know the exact time that seeking stopped working so I canāt say for sure that PMS 1.2.7 is the point but itās been badā¦ Many times I would pull something up in Plex Web in order to skip to where I wanted to be, exit, and the resume on the RasPlexā¦ This, however, is now a huge issue because of bigger issues in 1.4.3.3433ā¦ Actually, I noticed that when I upgraded to PMS 1.4.2 my RasPlex never seems to know how long the video playing isā¦ So if I am playing a 45 min video the bar is always at 99% with only a few seconds remainingā¦ If Iām at 12 mins and 32 seconds the bar indicates that the video ends at something like 12 mins and 36 secondsā¦ same no matter where I am in the video. After the upgrade to PMS 1.4.3 my rasplex now canāt even resume a video if the location to resume is more than only a couple mins into itā¦ It will give me the option when I press play to āResume from 24:20ā or whatever, then it will say transcoding, switch to please waitā¦ and then just stopā¦ if the resume point is 2:30 or something like that, it usually can resume but the video is jumpy for about 10 seconds until it stabilizes.
My server is running on Ubuntu 12 LTS 32-bitā¦ Iām using a Pi 3.
PMS 1.3.3 killed the seek and transcode by removing the metadata stream. Try Plexpass PMS 1.4.4 which returns the metadata to fix Chrome and Samsung TV clients. Our next Rasplex/OpenPHT release fixes the issues as well for all recent PMS versions.
I have a channel that is serving video to my rasplex devices using DirectPlay. Iād like to configure that channel to transcode as the pi is having trouble handling the stream as is. It seems even if the settings are set to force transcode and not to allow DirectPlay in the raplex settings, the channel is still being services from my plex server as directplay. Other video files (non channel) are transcoded as per the server settings.
I think this is a function of the rasplex client and not the server or the channel. Other devices seem to obey directplay settings and transcode. Could this be a bug? Any way to force this to transcode? Better yet would be able to force the channel to transcode but keep the rest of the direct play as is.
I think channels are special. In some (most) cases the media streams by the end directly from the source to the client and not through the PMS.
Example: YouTube. After initial negotiation the client (i.e. RasPlex) has obtained an URI and requests the data from googleās servers. The PMS is largely out of the game. If that is the case for your channel, the directplay and transcode settings on the PMS do not matter at all. But there is a āonline video qualityā preference on RasPlex.
@eckarth said:
I think channels are special. In some (most) cases the media streams by the end directly from the source to the client and not through the PMS.
Example: YouTube. After initial negotiation the client (i.e. RasPlex) has obtained an URI and requests the data from googleās servers. The PMS is largely out of the game. If that is the case for your channel, the directplay and transcode settings on the PMS do not matter at all. But there is a āonline video qualityā preference on RasPlex.
The channel (IPTV) transcodes properly for other clients (iOS, web client) obeying the Direct Play/Direct Streaming and quality settings. I can leave Direct Play/Direct Streaming on and it streams from Plex server as such. I disable and I can see Plex server transcoding it as it should. In Rasplex it doesnt. No matter the settings in Rasplex, Plex server is serving it Direct Play.
Hi i have a question that may have been answered a few years ago but i couldnt find any more updated information. I have some 10-bit anime shows that are being transcoded as the upper limit is 8-bit and in certain scenes the video becomes bright green on rasplex but not on openpht is there any particular settings i should make to prevent this?
@eckarth said:
I think channels are special. In some (most) cases the media streams by the end directly from the source to the client and not through the PMS.
Example: YouTube. After initial negotiation the client (i.e. RasPlex) has obtained an URI and requests the data from googleās servers. The PMS is largely out of the game. If that is the case for your channel, the directplay and transcode settings on the PMS do not matter at all. But there is a āonline video qualityā preference on RasPlex.
The channel (IPTV) transcodes properly for other clients (iOS, web client) obeying the Direct Play/Direct Streaming and quality settings. I can leave Direct Play/Direct Streaming on and it streams from Plex server as such. I disable and I can see Plex server transcoding it as it should. In Rasplex it doesnt. No matter the settings in Rasplex, Plex server is serving it Direct Play.
