Some of you may have, like me, wanted to run a Plex Media Server on your
ARM machines, but were disappointed that the only ARM packages available
were for various NAS appliances. I have just changed that.
Interestingly, QNAP ARM based NAS appliances are supported. These are
based on the Marvell Kirkwood ARMv5 processor, and I already have
RedSleeve working on those. So what I set out to do is take the QNAP ARM
qpkg package, extract the binaries, repackage them into a src.rpm, and
build a rpm from that.
The initial version you may want to test is available here:
http://ftp.redsleeve.org/pub/plex/
Note that the source code for Plex Media Server is not available (it
is free as in beer, but not as in speech), so the src.rpm doesn't
include the source - it includes the pre-compiled binaries that plex
provide in the binary package for the QNAP NAS appliances. Their ARM
build does not include transcoding support because most ARM CPUs are too
underpowered to be usable for real-time video stream transcoding. That
means that only the DirectPlay mode is available. If you have media in a
format that is not supported by your media playback device (e.g.
Chromecast or one of the many clones), it will not work, and you will
have to transcode the unsupported media files into a format your devices
support (H.264 is usually a good bet).
If you have a use for such a thing, please test and report back any
issues you encounter.
Gordan
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