Raspberry Pi 2 Serviio Server

[spudy12]

Just wondering how well the new raspberry pi would stand up as a serviio media server? Would it be powerful enough to transcode lower quality media files?

[atc98092]

Just wondering how well the new raspberry pi would stand up as a serviio media server? Would it be powerful enough to transcode lower quality media files?

Might be OS dependent. I noticed that Windows 10 will have a compatible version.

The CPU is a little slow, but being a quad core it might make up for it. The other limitation is RAM, having only 1 gig. As well optimized as it is, my first hunch would be that it might support a single transcoding stream, but probably would be iffy with a 2nd. Frankly, at that price, it's worth playing around with it.

[spudy12]

Yes for the price i think its well worth a play. I have ordered one and when I get some free time will have a play. I assume it can be overclocked quite well like the previous Pi.

Tried the Pi 2 as Serviio server, but couldn't get it to work till now. I try to watch a twitch stream. I can see the different qualities, but when I try to start the stream it always tells mit that the file readable. I tested every profile (like I did with the windows machine before, what helped)

I have to say I'm a newbie to Linux but I followed two how-tos:
One to install serviio: http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=how ... l:raspbian
The other one to compile ffmpeg: http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=build_ffmpeg_linux

I had some problems to install libfaac-dev following the second how-to (it wasn't in the repository) but I could add a repository to source.list and installed it later.
I guess it is a problem caused through ffmpeg.

I'll try some local files later.

Edit: Started from scratch and followed the first how-to and it works.
I had to find another address for libaacplus. I used

  Code:

wget http://tipok.org.ua/downloads/media/aacplus/libaacplus/libaacplus-2.0.2.tar.gz

instead of

  Code:

wget http://217.20.164.161/~tipok/aacplus/libaacplus-2.0.2.tar.gz

I can watch the streams in source, high, low and mobile quality. But the first two qualities are two heavy for either the network and/or the Pi. They stagnate constantly. Dunno why medium doesn't work. I always get the message that the file is not readable.

[NX3]

Are you running the os of the sd card? Or faster usb device? For the pi I built for the wiki guide I put the os on either a usb hdd or a very fast usb stick. It just gives it all a bit of bandwidth to play with as pi io to sd is very slow.

Have you set number of cpus in console for pi 2?

Where did you set serviio transcode / tmp folder?

[spudy12]

Usually running off a USB3 Memory Stick is better than the SD card. You will still need an SD card to boot with. Saying that, using a decent branded class 10 SD card should rival the performance these days.

You might be able to overclock the Pi 2 a little to give it a little extra headroom when transcoding. OBVIOUSLY this can damage your Pi and its YOUR responsibility.
Here is a link worth a read regarding overclocking: http://haydenjames.io/raspberry-pi-2-overclock/

Make sure you have set the number of cores that serviio can use, I would usually set it to 3 rather than 4 as you don't want the OS to lock up.

[NX3]

Even using a very fast sd (sandisk extreme ) card I found usb3 stick much faster (80mb/s) simply because of the way the Pi i/o system works.

Hi, i'm using Serviio in rpi2, just described as in my sign.
Working great, no transcoding btw, using ServiiDroid to manage the server.

I recommend using the oracle java, it was more faster than the openjdk.

[NX3]

I updated to Pi2 as well all works great.