While there are lots and lots of tutorials on how to set up Plex Media Server on a Raspberry Pi B+, I couldn’t find one that went through all of the steps I needed. This is both in an attempt to prolong the life of my iMac and to help my incredibly high electric bill (whoops). I don’t often yack about this kind of stuff on my blog as it’s pretty much exclusively an art blog, but I recently bought a Raspberry Pi B+ that I thought I could use as a lower powered Plex Media Server rather than having my (dying) iMac run constantly.
Considering the end game here is to get them playing on several 45-50" smart TVs I don't want to go downscaling them to 480p or anything like that.Īny other settings I should try? Should I try different file encodings on the videos? Should I find out if Raspberry Pis mix well with Two Roads? Because that's next on the list.Updated: September 9th, 2020: I had to redo all of this all over again and some steps have changed, so I’ve updated it. I tried setting Plex both with the "Disable video stream encoding" setting checked and unchecked, and have Transcoder quality set to "Prefer higher speed encoding". The Pi is running Raspbian Lite, and it looks like nothing of any considerable load is running on the Pi. The Blurays are all ripped to h.265 in mkv containers. Loaded it up with a bunch of Bluray rips and just tried playing one through a web browser on my laptop, got hit with a "Not enough CPU for conversion of this item." error. Finally got it up and running as a Plex server. So I have a Raspberry Pi 4 - the 4GB variant, got it in September if they made any newer revisions since then. The only friends I made along the way will get me committed if I talk to them in public, so there goes the only benefit to this.enlightening experience. Between setting up Plex, the external drive, Samba, and my router, I've lost close to two weeks worth of evenings trying to get to this point.
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