Subj : Re: The urge..
To   : Accession
From : Pequito
Date : Mon Jan 09 2017 17:42:58


On 01/09/17, Accession said the following...
 
 Ac> Hello Gryphon,
 Ac> 
 Ac> On Mon Jan 09 2017 14:30:22, Gryphon wrote to Accession:
 Ac> 
 Ac>  Gr> I know that urge well.  I'm currently looking into building a kodi
 Ac>  Gr> media center and would like to use an RPi3B because it has built-in
 Ac>  Gr> wifi.  I already  have the odroid XU4 and use it as my desktop.  I
 Ac>  Gr> compare that to my Acer Aspire with 4GB of memory, and the ODROID is
 Ac>  Gr> far and away the faster and more powerful device.
 Ac> 
 Ac> Not sure if you've dabbled in this realm yet or not, but I'm currently
 Ac> running plex-media-server on one of my RPi3's, and it doesn't seem to
 Ac> want to play anything larger than 720p HD (non-blu ray). As soon as I
 Ac> try to play a blu ray movie it actually gives a warning message saying
 Ac> the server isn't powerful enough. :(

Check your file format, make sure they are MP4 or MKV, if they are anything
else I noticed it takes a bus load more resources for plex to attempt to
stream it.  Plex also has a built in conversion tool if you do not have one
outside of it can convert the files then replace them with the new MP4
versions.  Just my observation when using Plex.

I placed a monitor on CPU and Memory and both show a pretty big spike with
other formats.

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