Your Raspberry Pi Projects

K3NS31 said:
Not sure if this info has changed since Plex anounced an official addon, but the issue used to be that Plex had it's own database, which it would then shoehorn into Kodi, whereas Emby uses a Kodi Database, which it just syncs across your devices (Technically, everything except the actual media). So no compatibility issues, whereas Plex wouldn't work with all Skins and some addons etc.
Also many Plex features are pay only. Some Emby features are pay only, but nothing important / useful.
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So mainly because you wanted to use Kodi as a player and Emby worked for that?

The last time I used Kodi it was still XBMC and I'm a very happy Plex users but I'm very intrigued that Plex now was a official Kodi add-on.
 
Soul Assassin said:
So mainly because you wanted to use Kodi as a player and Emby worked for that?

The last time I used Kodi it was still XBMC and I'm a very happy Plex users but I'm very intrigued that Plex now was a official Kodi add-on.
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Yes cos Kodi is the better player for me. More addons, skins, features, lightweight etc. etc.
 
Soul Assassin said:
Has anyone tried out Pi Hole?

Thoughts?
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I use pihole, its pretty awesome, blocks Android ads from all devices on the wifi.
It's not 100% foolproof when it comes to browser ads though, so I still use a browser extension to block those.
 
Genisys said:
Tried it. Didn't work. Would rather run it off a VM with a little more power.
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In what way didn't it work?

linkinpark said:
I use pihole, its pretty awesome, blocks Android ads from all devices on the wifi.
It's not 100% foolproof when it comes to browser ads though, so I still use a browser extension to block those.
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I'm testing it out now and so far so good, I tested on AOL with and without, if I disable it I see a Nissan ad and if I enable it I only see the small AdChoices triangle and text where the ad was previously.
 
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linkinpark said:
I use pihole, its pretty awesome, blocks Android ads from all devices on the wifi.
It's not 100% foolproof when it comes to browser ads though, so I still use a browser extension to block those.
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+1

I've also been using it for the past few months, works well..

Only issue is YouTube doesn't mark videos as watched. Not serious though.
 
mh348 said:
+1

I've also been using it for the past few months, works well..

Only issue is YouTube doesn't mark videos as watched. Not serious though.
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There's a fix for that, just add the following 2 domains to the whitelist:
s.youtube.com
video-stats.l.google.com
 
A couple of people on reddit and other places did say Pi-hole isn't perfect, sometimes an ad does slip through but I really like it. I really like that it even blocks video ads on my Samsung Smart TV's YouTube app.

My Pi is always on anyway and it didn't do anything while idle so why not.
 
Has anyone tried playing H.265/HEVC files on the RBP either via Kodi or Raspbian?

I've read online about people who have tried but say the decoding happens purely on the CPU and the performance isn't up to scratch at 1080p
 
wabbit16 said:
Has anyone tried playing H.265/HEVC files on the RBP either via Kodi or Raspbian?

I've read online about people who have tried but say the decoding happens purely on the CPU and the performance isn't up to scratch at 1080p
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I have tried a 1080p episode through kodi, it was terribly choppy and unwatchable. This is on a pi2 though, maybe the pi3 fairs better.
 
Sorry, I forgot to add that this is with a RBP3. Thanks for the feedback :)
 
wabbit16 said:
Has anyone tried playing H.265/HEVC files on the RBP either via Kodi or Raspbian?

I've read online about people who have tried but say the decoding happens purely on the CPU and the performance isn't up to scratch at 1080p
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I forced Plex to direct play to be sure nothing is transcoding, 720P HEVC worked fine but 1080P HEVC was unwatchable.
 
Pity that the Pi doesn't have the grunt to play HEVC. It's otherwise a neat little device.

I couldn't figure out why my Pi wasn't booting after a power failure this morning, but it turns out that each and every time it booted my external HDD was connected and it automounted it as a share using fstab. I have since unplugged it and fstab wasn't happy that it could not see the HDD anymore and refused to boot. Adding nofail to the parameters solved it and it booted up merrily again :)
 
backstreetboy said:
Only smooth playback on 720p. 1080p struggles. My Samsung tv can play 1080p/4k 10 bit hevc x265 videos from plex on rbp3 though so doesn't phase me at all.
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At 480p on YouTube my temp crosses the 80°C threshold and the video stutters
Tad bit disappointed by that...expected more from the Pi 3
 
Idiosyncratic said:
At 480p on YouTube my temp crosses the 80°C threshold and the video stutters
Tad bit disappointed by that...expected more from the Pi 3
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The latest Chromium on Raspian Pixel has hardware acceleration, just use the h264ify plugin to force YouTube to play H.264 instead of VP8/VP9.
 
Soul Assassin said:
The latest Chromium on Raspian Pixel has hardware acceleration, just use the h264ify plugin to force YouTube to play H.264 instead of VP8/VP9.
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And that ought to keep the temps in the green while having yt running without stuttering?

backstreetboy said:
Have you tried overclocking it? You'll need some heatsinks on it though.
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Overclocking? No, too damn scared I'll cause it to overheat (don't have a heatsink).
 
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