This release changes everything. Again I hope someone gets that joke. Anyways, I’m the more excited about this release than any other release. RC8 had playback issues. rc9 uses OpenELEC instead of gentoo as a platform, this gives us lots of things for free: An image that is 100MB instead of 400MB lirc support Faster boot time Various bug fixes Less system overhead There are still some issues, and features we want to add: No...
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Big Congrats to Weelkin! Thanks to Weelkin, we now have a functioning OpenELEC port of Raplex! You can check it out here.  I am very pleased with it, and I think that instead of doing tandem releases with Gentoo and OpenELEC, I am going to make OpenELEC the main distro for Rasplex. I will still keep the gentoo port around, but it’ll be only for debugging purposes. OpenELEC supports various things out of box that are...
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This page is deprecated, check out our new home at rasplex.com The equivalent page is here
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Things have come a long way rc8 is the product of various “experimental” rc’s, that pulled in the latest PHT code. The most notable difference in rc8 is that the home screen is much faster, and on-deck/recently added are much more useable. There is still some delay, but even with full skin animations, and only background slideshow disabled, it still works surprisingly well. Some things to note: Still no lirc support, sorry! Image quality is...
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Small changes, big improvements Due to many known issues with rc3, I have rolled out 0.1-rc4 as quickly as possible. The main improvement provided by rc4 is to use xbmc’s ffmpeg, which enables transcoding. There are also some GUI changes that seem to make things much more stable. One thing I have noticed with all versions of PHT is that they are extremely unstable if you try to do too much with them before the...
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