Want RasPlex on RPi2 ? Try the BerryBoot method!

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No DTS is fine, if you output to a DTS capable receiver then remember to enable Passthrough and set your number of speakers appropriately.

When you tried it before you were probably using earlier builds, don't forget to overclock your Pi if using standard Pi, info in the forums stickies.

Regards

Atm I am testing on old Samsung TV thats not DTS capable, Also I don't see any Passthrough settings in the Audio Output of Rasplex 0.5.0 

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Atm I am testing on old Samsung TV thats not DTS capable, Also I don't see any Passthrough settings in the Audio Output of Rasplex 0.5.0


If it's just tv sound then no settings to change, DTS will be remuxed to 2.0 stereo through TV speakers. It's worth considering when ripping BD or DVD to create an additional 2.0 AAC audio track in addition to DTS or DD audio track, particularly useful if you also use iOS or Android tablet/phone apps, that way you'll always get DirectPlay.

Regards
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Okay I just tested on my main TV and still don't see passthrough settings in Audio Output, Enabled DTS as the receiver is definitely DTS / DTS-HD etc capable. DTS video played this time without freezing but had no audio. Is DTS-Passthrough supposed to be missing from the menu.

Btw OpenElec ( Currently via Berryboot ) plays flawlessly, Super responsive menu, audio is perfect, tracking through video is perfect and I have the Multitude of audio output settings.

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Okay I just tested on my main TV and still don't see passthrough settings in Audio Output, Enabled DTS as the receiver is definitely DTS / DTS-HD etc capable. DTS video played this time without freezing but had no audio. Is DTS-Passthrough supposed to be missing from the menu.
 
Btw OpenElec ( Currently via Berryboot ) plays flawlessly, Super responsive menu, audio is perfect, tracking through video is perfect and I have the Multitude of audio output settings.


Definitely not missing I use it to passthrough to my AV Receiver, the options for passthrough are 'DTS capable receiver' and 'DD capable receiver'. Even on standard Pi, native Rasplex 0.5.0 delivers smooth 1080p video at 24fps with both full DTS or DD audio.

Regards
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If I disable DTS (passthrough) should the RPi be able to play video streams that have DTS audio.

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If I disable DTS (passthrough) should the RPi be able to play video streams that have DTS audio.

It should then downmix the audio to normal stereo, and it does seem to work for me.
I have several movies with only DTS audio track, but have no DTS hardware, and they play with normal stereo here.

Best regards: dlanor
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thanks dlanor, Really bizare I cant get this to work, Do you find menu navigation or switching between librarys nice and fast ? I find OpenElec super super fast.

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thanks dlanor, Really bizare I cant get this to work, Do you find menu navigation or switching between librarys nice and fast ? I find OpenElec super super fast.


Nice and crisp for me, but not really an everyday solution for me, just did it for fun. Try resetting everything to defaults and try again.

Regards
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NedtheNerd, Started from scratch (new sd cards) even went so far as to format the SD cards using fresh install of OSX, and used CIFS remote repo for Plex image to install into berry boot. Everything seemed to work fine but still DTS problems ( video below ) I used the following Plex release https://github.com/RasPlex/RasPlex/releases/download/0.5.0/rasplex-RPi.arm-0.5.0.tar.gz

I downloaded the tar.gz extracted the contents ( under linux ), copied the target/system file to my CIFS share and renamed to plex 0.5.0.img

Fired up BerryBoot set import via internet then in network settings pointed to my CIFS share, selected Plex, Install began.

I have tried this via USB with same results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tolxs7Cz5Eo

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NedtheNerd, Started from scratch (new sd cards) even went so far as to format the SD cards using fresh install of OSX, and used CIFS remote repo for Plex image to install into berry boot. Everything seemed to work fine but still DTS problems ( video below ) I used the following Plex release https://github.com/RasPlex/RasPlex/releases/download/0.5.0/rasplex-RPi.arm-0.5.0.tar.gz

I downloaded the tar.gz extracted the contents ( under linux ), copied the target/system file to my CIFS share and renamed to plex 0.5.0.img

Fired up BerryBoot set import via internet then in network settings pointed to my CIFS share, selected Plex, Install began.

I have tried this via USB with same results.

Have you disabled FFMPEG AVIO in 'Preferences'->'Playback'->'Advanced Video', should be off at the moment, fix in next release.

Regards

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Have you disabled FFMPEG AVIO in 'Preferences'->'Playback'->'Advanced Video', should be off at the moment, fix in next release.

Regards

I had not, But I just tried it then and it made no difference.

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I had not, But I just tried it then and it made no difference.


Don't worry, new release supporting RPi2 will be out in a day or two. So you won't need Berryboot.

Regards
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NedtheNerd, Yeah figured as much from the chatter but it urks me why it works for others lol

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man, I'm so jealous... still impatiently waiting for my R-pi2 to arrive :-). Kudos to the team for the hard work! Can't wait

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After watching systemx's video I caved in and ordered one too, now impatiently waiting for it to arrive and give it a run.

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My video of it not working properly ? haha

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My video of it not working properly ? haha

I know you  are having problems but it was how fast and smooth the interface was that sold me on it.

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I have a question about updating with bootberry.

When a new version of bootberry is released, is it simply a matter of replacing the content of the FAT32 partition on my SD card with the new version? I assume the new version will be able to read the ext4 data partition as is?

For updating rasplex itself inside bootberry, I suppose I can just install the new version, and then delete the old version, and reconfigure rasplex as needed correct? Is it possible to replace the rasplex .img files directly with a new version without deleting it and adding it again?

mpeg2 licenses installed in bootberry's config.txt applies to all OS installed in bootberry, very nice.

Lastly a technical question. I noticed bootberry have a "recover" option to reset the image. I assume it's keeping the original image somewhere in the SD card for this purpose. My question is does it runs off of this image (like mounting an ISO file and read the files directly), or does it extract the image to a working directory (and work with the copy)? I assume it's mounting the image file directly and recover simply blows away all the data/configuration file associated with the image correct?

All in all a very nice utility. I think the only bug I found so far is in some of the bootberry configuration screens, the tab order is slightly off. Also the long mouse hold to get the option of add image from USB is kinda non trival ;)

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I have a question about updating with bootberry.
 
When a new version of bootberry is released, is it simply a matter of replacing the content of the FAT32 partition on my SD card with the new version? I assume the new version will be able to read the ext4 data partition as is?

Theoretically it should be able to work that way, but my experience is that it doesn't... :(
I did replace the FAT32 content in exactly this way, and lost access to all installed OS (several RasPlex versions, and other stuff).
It didn't matter all that much to me, since I was going to use a new card anyway, switching to an SDXC model for its larger size of 64GB (beyond the SDHC limit of 32GB).
 

For updating rasplex itself inside bootberry, I suppose I can just install the new version, and then delete the old version, and reconfigure rasplex as needed correct?

That does work fine, and you can also keep old versions around for comparison if you like, installed in parallel under BerryBoot.
I always keep one copy each of the latest stable releases this way, as well as several beta test versions.
But that's because I'm a beta tester for the project. As a normal user I'd settle for the last two stable releases.
That will allow you to keep using a version you're happy with in case a new release turns out to have bugs or feature changes you can't stand.
 

Is it possible to replace the rasplex .img files directly with a new version without deleting it and adding it again?

I don't know a safe method for directly manipulating images already installed under BerryBoot.
It can probably be done, but it would require some experimentation to establish safe usage boundaries.

But you may be able to perform some future updating of RasPlex versions using its internal update commands.
I've never had occasion to try this with the RPi2 yet (only one official release exists), but it did work for older versions on the RPi1.
Thus I was able to use the internal update method to update RasPlex under BerryBoot from RasPlex 0.4.1 to 0.5.0.

But I wouldn't advise using this method to update from a current version to one of the next generation (RasPlex 0.6.x+), since this will use a new OpenELEC version, and I'm not sure if the old auto-update routines can handle that transition.
 

mpeg2 licenses installed in bootberry's config.txt applies to all OS installed in bootberry, very nice.

Yes, since the license is tied to the hardware serial number it applies to everything running on the same RPi.
It's only if you move an existing card to another RPi that the license usage will fail.
 

Lastly a technical question. I noticed bootberry have a "recover" option to reset the image. I assume it's keeping the original image somewhere in the SD card for this purpose. My question is does it runs off of this image (like mounting an ISO file and read the files directly), or does it extract the image to a working directory (and work with the copy)? I assume it's mounting the image file directly and recover simply blows away all the data/configuration file associated with the image correct?

To be honest I've never tried it, so I can't say for sure. But my guess is the same as yours.
 

All in all a very nice utility. I think the only bug I found so far is in some of the bootberry configuration screens, the tab order is slightly off. Also the long mouse hold to get the option of add image from USB is kinda non trival ;)

I agree, and people who use TV remotes through CEC must be especially frustrated with this, as it's impossible to use the BerryBoot configuration menus without a mouse.
I use a mini-keyboard with a built-in 'air mouse', and aiming this correctly while pressing the mouse buttons is quite a chore, as the mouse pointer tends to wander when pressing any key/button...
So when using BerryBoot I usually connect a normal keyboard+mouse combo in addition to my mini-keyboard (that's needed for the Linux desktop OS's installed anyway).

Best regards: dlanor
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Thanks for the detailed reply! Looking forward to the 0.6.x release! :)