I thought I'd give this a try but I find it to be practically unusable.
Browsing a media library comprising of hundreds of movies and TV shows is impossible. I do have precaching turned on.
Is this expected behaviour because this is a pre-release version of RasPlex, or is it a limitation of the hardware in the raspberry Pi?
It's looking like if I want something that works smoothly I will have to build a HTPC. However this comes with other "Challenges" of its own (like the lack of proper HDMI-CEC support)
I thought I'd give this a try but I find it to be practically unusable.
Browsing a media library comprising of hundreds of movies and TV shows is impossible. I do have precaching turned on.
Is this expected behaviour because this is a pre-release version of RasPlex, or is it a limitation of the hardware in the raspberry Pi?
It's looking like if I want something that works smoothly I will have to build a HTPC. However this comes with other "Challenges" of its own (like the lack of proper HDMI-CEC support)
Not much help can be given if you don't state:
1. Model of Raspberry Pi (Rasplex will not work on 256mb Pi's)
2. Version of Rasplex
3. Version of Plex Media Server
4. Class and capacity of SD card
5. Output of power supply (Rasplex requires a minimum of 1A, preferably 2A if using any USB dongles)
5. Network connectivity (Rasplex is not very reliable operating on WiFi)
I myself have a Library of hundreds of TV shows and movies, thousands of photos and thousands of music tracks available on a number of Pi's running Rasplex 0.4.1.
It is the newest version of RPI with newest release of Rasplex. Of course my PMS is also the latest version (all these are latest as of yesterday (30 Oct). 1A PSU with no dongles attached. Network is connection into my switch with CAT6 cable.
I went out and bought a Class 10 SD card just for this but its performance is still abysmal. It is most definitely not smooth. Navigating hundreds of movies is just tedious.
If I want to find a specific movie (say starting with a "U") I have to resort to filtering by alphabet which is very tedious. I can't just hold down the down arrow key on the keyboard/remote because the it would take several minutes to reach "U". There is acceleration in the scrolling but due to how choppy the UI is its difficult to stop scrolling when you hit the target. There is no way to enter text either (I think it would be useful if there were some T9 style input using the remote control over HDMI-CEC to quickly find specific media, that is if the HDMI-CEC spec supports passing such data through to the HDMI-CEC client)
Ultimately though I guess this is more of a gripe with the UI versus the smoothness. That said its nowhere near as smooth as it is on the desktop / iOS clients, but this is probably a limitation stemming from the lack of processing power and disk I/O offered by the RPi.
This solution is not going to work for me, but I suppose the performance is acceptable for a ~$30 device.
Have you overclocked the Pi? Because in my experience that helps a lot in the UI - it can still be a tad lacky but compared to standard performance it is significantly better.
I have a 2A power supply and I am currently using the 1000/500/500/6 setup without any issues.
I have tried standard and 950/450/450/0 before but the current setting is so far the best I have tried.
