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Oct 30, 2015, 09:48 PM
Mike, just saw your follow up post, thanks. I followed the link you posted, did you see the response about the SATA to USB adapter?
"OPI-PLUS has on-board SATA<->USB 2.0 adapter, so the speed is limited by USB 2.0 speed. You can expect max ~30 MB/sec."
Sorry for the ignorant question, but what do you mean by "Plex may add new checks"? ...thanks
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Oct 30, 2015, 11:18 PM
I figured it ran along the USB bus somehow (note that this is different from sharing the bus like the RPi does AFAIK). This is why the Banana Pi gets 47 MB/s (max for USB 2.0 is 480 Mbits IIRC).
Plex has done a lot to try and prevent arm devices from transcoding. The plex.js file checks your CPU, architecture, speed or something and autoreturns a 'you can't transcode' for certain media types. It is possible to override this with the guide I made for fixing the plex is not powerful enough thanks to some clever people on the plex forum. What I am saying is it is possible Plex may make additional checks like this in the future that may be harder to circumvent.
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Oct 30, 2015, 11:28 PM
Got it, thanks.
Did you see Orange Pi posted the Orange Pi Plus 2 on their site? I see in their forums they have pre-announced a 3 as well. Seems the community there is concerned about the lack of software advances in conjunction with the hardware advances....
Might be a better PM response, but if you were going buy a pi to run the setup I described in the original post, would you go Orange or Banana? :-)
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Oct 31, 2015, 02:00 PM
They do seem to be pushing out far too many models in my opinion. If it is just for a little server then software support is not that important because so far there is a working distro. I believe people are more upset about audio, hdmi and other things not working optimally yet.
As for which Pi really it's a toss up between the Orange Pi and Banana Pi as a server since you will want gigabit at the very least and ideally SATA despite its limitations. You may get more joy out of the 4 cores on the Orange Pi Plus but you may want the better speed that the Banana Pi SATA offers.