The former work well, but are relatively expensive if you don’t plan to game or use them for anything other than Plex. Even many Smart TVs have clients these days. Gaming consoles like the XBOX and Playstation have clients. Most every streaming media device (Apple TV, Rokuu, etc.) have Plex clients. There are numerous ways to get Plex Server content on your TV. When you compare the cost of a Raspberry Pi 3 at ~$25 to that of an Apple TV (or similar) at almost $200 it becomes clear why using the Raspberry Pi as a Plex client is a great idea! It’s a fantastic and super affordable solution that could be used on every television in your home. C with full power (400%).RasPlex is without a doubt the simplest way to turn any RPi into a super easy to use Raspberry Pi Plex client. I already have a heat-sink and cooling fan installed that enables me to keep the CPU/GPU at a steady 49 deg.

Off course I can scale down the quality, but I am curious of the following:ĭoes anybody have experience how much I could gain with overclocking? Does it really makes a difference related to the transcoding capabilities? And how much should/could I overclock? Although everybody told me transcoding was out of reach of the Pi, it works quit nice till movies with a higher rate then approx 3Mb/sec or a CPU Utilization of approx 250% (2,5 cores full). Using my Samsung smart TV (direct play) it works phenomenal, but I also use the system over OpenVPN during my frequent business travels (via browser, transcoding).

It just worked 'out of the box' in combination with a 2.5' external hard drive and I used below instructions to install Plex including transcoding functionality:

I recently purchased a raspberry Pi 3 because I wanted to replace the old headless AMD desktop running Ubuntu and Plex media server and I loved the prospect the Pi uses a lot less energy (3W compared to 190W) and takes less space and makes less noise (a requirement of my wife ).

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