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Hello,

I am a new RasPlex user. I installed RasPlex 9.9.16 yesterday on a new RasPi and everything began smoothly. I set my preferences, connected to the server and watched as auto-caching ran. Audio files play correctly. However, video files only play audio. The display shows background art, poster art and the time line but no video. This occurs with all video libraries and occurs after rebooting RasPi.

 

Paste Bin (last 40): http://pastebin.com/vQNK9tvw

 

RAsPi: Model B. 512 MB. CanaKit power supply (1.0 Amp.)

EtherNet: Hard wired.

RasPlex: 9.9.16 flashed via GUI Installer

SD Card: Nothing special.

 

Screenshots attached.

 

So, figuring it was either the cheap SD card or the 9.9.16 version, I flashed a newer SD card (SDHC 4) with RasPlex 0.3.1 via the GUI Installer. Again I have audio without video but not even the background or poster art shows.

 

Paste Bin: http://pastebin.com/EpajAdBv

 

Any advice greatly appreciated.

 

thanks,

ron

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What is the codec? If it's MPEG-2 or VC1 you need to buy appropriate licenses for the codec from the Pi store here: http://www.raspberrypi.com/license-keys/

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Hi Cello,

Thanks for the feedback. I am using Make MKV which apparently creates MPEG 2 files. 

ron

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FYI, MakeMKV just rips the movie and puts everything into a .mkv container.  It doesn't change the codec used on the disc.  

I had this same issue and installing the licenses was the answer.

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That was the issue. Got the codec and all is good.

thanks,

ron

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What is the codec? If it's MPEG-2 or VC1 you need to buy appropriate licenses for the codec from the Pi store here: http://www.raspberrypi.com/license-keys/

Hello Cello,

Thanks i had the same issue yesterday and going to give this a go..

SSH into RASPLEX (root/rasplex)

mount /flash -o remount,rw
cd /flash
nano config.txt

Change these to match your licences ==>

decode_MPG2=0x00000000
decode_WVC1=0x00000000
 

Cheers Rob.

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Hmm.. this doesn't work, it just ignores the licences.

Perhaps force transcoding will sort the issue?

Cheers Rob.

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Did you reboot after saving the config.txt?


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Did you reboot after saving the config.txt?


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Roget that. Can you confirm this works for you?

Cheers Rob.

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Hey Guys,

I've got the codec's enabled now the step I was missing was after editing:

mount /flash -o remount,ro

Now the codecs are loaded but some movies (mostly older Mpeg-4) still play audio only even in the latest Experimental release 9.9.18 and the latest Testing Release from a few days ago (2014-01-17)

Cheers Rob.

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Hi,

i tried this command:

RasPlex:/proc # mount /flash -o remount,rw

but got the following error.
mount: can’t find /flash in /proc/mounts

I continue to follow the instructions:

cd /flash
nano config.txt

Added my key (hidden on the pic but it is properly entered), saved.

Restart the Pi, but VC1 codec are sill not activated.

Obviously, there something wrong in what i’m doing. I have a brand new PI2 with rasplex 1.0.1 installed.

Thanks for your help. :slight_smile:

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Command is:

 mount -o remount,rw /flash

Then:

 nano /flash/config.txt

Save the file with CTRL-X, Y, enter.

Reboot

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Hi Ned, seems what I did:
asPlex:~ # mount -o remount,rw /flash

Which returns:
**mount: can’t find /flash in /proc/mounts
**
Then I was able to do the file writing using nano anyway.

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Forgot to mention I’ve bootberry installed.

I tried to put the key also in there : /var/media//config.txt but it didn’t worked.

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Ah, that explains it, you didn’t mention that.

Dlanor covers editing the config.txt files for Berryboot in one of his excellent responses http://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/902282

You need to read through the posts.

Regards

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OK, figure it out. I add the “decode_WC1” line on the very first line of the config.txt of bootberry in /var/media/searchforaverylongfoldername/config.txt and it worked.

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