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Been playing with PlexOE a little more. Now I remember an issue that was a deal breaker for me: hardware acceleration is not working. My CPUs are getting crushed. Like vdpau and whatnot? Yep. I think the issue may be specific to AMD GPUs (if I remember correctly) but it has been a while since I did any research. John Even in our OE VM I had to disable the acceleration for AMD GPUs but NVIDIA works just fine. Why did you need to disable it when it works out of the box with stock OE? My manual installs of OE have it enabled and my CPUs happiny sit at ~ 5% - 10% when streaming even the most demanding content. Maybe my particular AMD GPU wasn't nice with it? Maybe an issue with the OE beta versions? If I left it on, playback would be like 15fps and that's no good. Have you tried with our VM template and an AMD GPU yet? Never really tried since I continue to have issues with stepping forward/backward with the OE 5.95 betas. That being said, I can certainly create one and give it a go. Ahhh...the beauty of VMs. Stay tuned...I'll report back. John

Been playing with PlexOE a little more. Now I remember an issue that was a deal breaker for me: hardware acceleration is not working. My CPUs are getting crushed. Like vdpau and whatnot? Yep. I think the issue may be specific to AMD GPUs (if I remember correctly) but it has been a while since I did any research. John Even in our OE VM I had to disable the acceleration for AMD GPUs but NVIDIA works just fine. Why did you need to disable it when it works out of the box with stock OE? My manual installs of OE have it enabled and my CPUs happiny sit at ~ 5% - 10% when streaming even the most demanding content.

Been playing with PlexOE a little more. Now I remember an issue that was a deal breaker for me: hardware acceleration is not working. My CPUs are getting crushed. Like vdpau and whatnot? Yep. I think the issue may be specific to AMD GPUs (if I remember correctly) but it has been a while since I did any research. John

Been playing with PlexOE a little more. Now I remember an issue that was a deal breaker for me: hardware acceleration is not working. My CPUs are getting crushed.

Where is an ISO? I only see TAR files at his site.

UPDATE: I just did this as POC and had PlexOE up and running in a matter of 15 mins. John If this is the Plex Plugin on an current OE install, i tried this and hated it. Nope. It is exactly what you linked: http://plexrpms.markwalker.dk/OpenELEC/3.2/ The process is the same since it is still just KERNEL and SYSTEM files (just like OE)... - create a VM the way you normally would - I created an 8GB vdisk (or whatever size you want) - use an Ubuntu Desktop ISO as the install media ("Try Ubuntu" for a Live session) - before you start the VM the first time, you will need to edit the XML - change the disk type from virtio to sata - change the nic type from virtio to e1000 - follow the process I linked above for manually installing OE (it will work the exact same with with the OE w/ Plex that Mark developed) - in a nutshell, you are doing the following in the VM... - fdisk'ing the vdisk - formatting the partitions - labeling the partitions - mounting the System partition - copying the SYSTEM and KERNEL file to it (make sure these are somewhere that the VM can reach them) - installing extlinux, write MBR and edit the /media/System/extlinux.conf file - unmounting the SYSTEM partition - shutdown the vm - remove the ubuntu ISO and make the vdisk the primary boot device (*** if you do this by Editing the VM, you will need to edit the XML again to make the Disk and NIC changes (change virtio to sata and e1000) - Start the VM and enjoy Be aware that there are some gaps in the manual install instructions... - it does not tell you to write (W) the changes you made via fdisk - in order to install extlinux, you need to enable the Universe repo I think that is it. John

UPDATE: I just did this as POC and had PlexOE up and running in a matter of 15 mins. John

Explain again why this would NOT be an issue? I'm not being critical, but just don't understand using such an old platform. There has to be a lot of newer technology being excluded. That being said, you can always perform a manual install in a VM as described here: http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/Manual_Installation This is what I did for all 3 of my OE VMs. Only thing you need to do is modify your XML and disk controller and NIC model type from virtio to sata and e1000 respectively since OE does not have virtio drivers included. John

You should have local mapping available. That is one of the advantages of using this VM is the ability to access your shares without using your network. -Will No, we do this through SMB, but it's still local. Yes, it is going through the "network layer" by using SMB, but it's not actually traversing the copper network itself. The network bridge takes care of that. All traffic going between the virtual network of the guest and the host is contained to the host. I'm curious what effect this would have on a shared MySQL DB. If I created my MySQL DB from an OE VM that uses local paths (9p), would standalone OE boxes that access media via SMB understand the paths in the existing DB? How do you do this today with a shared MySQL DB? I don't take that approach personally, so I need some education in that department. I don't use local paths in my OE VMs...I use SMB same as the standalone boxes.

You should have local mapping available. That is one of the advantages of using this VM is the ability to access your shares without using your network. -Will No, we do this through SMB, but it's still local. Yes, it is going through the "network layer" by using SMB, but it's not actually traversing the copper network itself. The network bridge takes care of that. All traffic going between the virtual network of the guest and the host is contained to the host. I'm curious what effect this would have on a shared MySQL DB. If I created my MySQL DB from an OE VM that uses local paths (9p), would standalone OE boxes that access media via SMB understand the paths in the existing DB? Honestly, I never tries because I just assumed that they wouldn't play nicely together. But since you brought SMB into the conversation in regards to local paths, it started me thinking. John

This appears to be broken due to the recent changes in /root/mdcmd in the 6.1 RCs... unRAID Tunables Tester v2.2 by Pauven ./unraid-tunables-tester.sh: line 80: /root/mdcmd: No such file or directory ./unraid-tunables-tester.sh: line 388: /root/mdcmd: No such file or directory ./unraid-tunables-tester.sh: line 389: /root/mdcmd: No such file or directory ./unraid-tunables-tester.sh: line 390: /root/mdcmd: No such file or directory ./unraid-tunables-tester.sh: line 394: /root/mdcmd: No such file or directory ./unraid-tunables-tester.sh: line 397: /root/mdcmd: No such file or directory ./unraid-tunables-tester.sh: line 400: [: : integer expression expected Test 1 - md_sync_window=384 - Test Range Entered - Time Remaining: 587s ^C Anyone have a fix? John

Why is the UPS Status plugin no longer available? Is it because it is being rolled into 6.1 final?

I see the same. Thank you for the update! John

Thanks for these plugins! I am liking the System Buttons plugin but have 2 requests: 1. Can Stop Array and Start Array be added to the dropdown list? Start Array would be grayed out if the array is already started (same for Stop Array). 2. When you use the button to shutdown/reboot, is it possible to see the same message displayed that you would normally see when doing so from the Array Oprtation tab (stopping nfs...stopping smb, etc.)? Otherwise there is no indication that the attempt to shutdown/reboot is stuck due to "retrying to unmount disks". John

Network booting OpenELEC. I'm doing this now via NFS but would like to move to iSCSI to reduce the overhead of NFS. John

I would think that this could be done in a Docker container via a simple web form.

What kind of speeds are you guys seeing if you open and MKV and rip it? My speeds start off OK and then are dropping to ~1X. It may be because my source and destination are both on parity protected shares and disk I/O is getting crushed. EDIT: NM...I just tried a different MKV and it ripped anywhere between 8x and 22x (seems to burst).

My server does not have a CD/DVD/BD-ROM. Do I need to (or can I) remove the extra parameter? I mainly use MakeMKV to mainly to remove extra audio tracks and subtitles from existing MKVs. John

Awesome! This is a long time coming.

Bumping this one to see if it is still on LT's radar. Jonp?

Listed in USB Devices. Can someone tell me what this is and if there is practical use for it? TIA! John

Jon, can you check this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=40410.0 I think something is awry or we are both mistaken about BTRFS pooling. John

You're using my setup. What kind of SSDs you have? I have 2 x Sandisk 512GBs and 1 x Corsair 256GB. 3x 128GB Kingston SSDNow So usable capacity of 256GB? Correct.

You're using my setup. What kind of SSDs you have? I have 2 x Sandisk 512GBs and 1 x Corsair 256GB. 3x 128GB Kingston SSDNow

I'm using a 3x SSD drive BTRFS cache pool for my VM storge. No issues at all.