RC3 is up, hopefully with some new features Attempting for OOB CEC (my white whale apparently) Ripped out GLEW, as it wasn’t needed added LIRC with support for what should be most remotes supported by lirc added rasplex-updater, and other helpful scripts (such as pastbin and pastelog) updated config.txt based off of raspbmc Lets get stable rc3 should be the last image that will add features for a while, from now on the focus is going...
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Almost ready to release rasplex-0.1-a I have created a release list on trello, with the planned features for the rasplex-0.1-a release. I have uploaded a new snapshot to overwrite the existing unstable, so that folks can play around with the fixes that have been added. Notably:   Updates still broken in this version, but fixed for 0.1-a libCEC SHOULD work, but i need someone to test it for me keyboard working again El added the ability...
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Good news everyone! (the above must be read with a professor Farnsworth voice), ala httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHfOejlvVsY Rasplex 0.1-rc1 alpha is ready for use, get it here. I consider this to be the best build yet, hands down. Here is the feature card for the release, but here’s a summary of what’s been added Clean OpenGL drawing (note, if you leave it running over night, it’ll cache all of the images, making it run much faster) Updating plexht...
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Let there be eye candy! Enabling GL drawing has massively improved the speed of Rasplex. Slideshows, thumbs, and the gui in general are quit useable and looking very pretty! When it initially fetches the thumbnails, etc, it takes a little while. I suspect that this is because it is doing client side transcoding, and then caching them. It should be possible to force server side transcoding of thumbs etc. After my on deck/recently added fully...
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Progressing fast! If you’re tracking our progress on our trello board, you’ll notice how fast things have been going! I’d like to particularly thank LongChair, El Massman, and Johan B for their hard work on the project. It’s hard to believe that just a week ago the GUI was thrashing all over the place, unuseable, with no playback support. Various fixes We now have an alpha that I consider to be fairly useable. There are...
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