#RASPBERRY PI 2 FFMPEG BUILD PLEX INSTALL#
#RASPBERRY PI 2 FFMPEG BUILD PLEX UPDATE#

Not only does the video fly off the drive, but it flies down the pipe via the router to your client, too, be that on a wired connection or Wi-Fi. You can run external drives on a USB 2.0, but they drag a little, and you don’t want that while streaming HD or UHD video.Īnother thing in the Pi 4’s favor is its Gigabit ethernet. With transfer rates like that, it’s totally feasible to run external drives from the USB at something approaching normal computer speeds.

Previous Pi USB 2.0 sockets run at 30-35MBps, whereas the new USB 3.0 runs at 320-360MBps, which is like a ten-fold speed hike. Click here to download the apt-transport-https package, which allows the apt package manager to retrieve packages over the https protocol used by the Plex repository.

#RASPBERRY PI 2 FFMPEG BUILD PLEX INSTALL#

Now we need to install the packages that we need to compile FFmpeg and its additional libraries.

#RASPBERRY PI 2 FFMPEG BUILD PLEX UPDATE#

To update everything, all you need to do is run the following two commands. Here you need to add the official Plex package repository. Before we begin, you should first update both the package list and the installed packages. Although it’s possible to use previous revisions of the Raspberry Pi for this build, the Pi 4’s USB 3.0 ports really pay off. Install the Plex Media Server software to your Raspberry Pi. The USB 3 sockets on a RasPi 4 are more than fast enough to shoot the data from the disk into the server brain and out to the waiting clients. We need to give nginx permission to use the video port, so do that with the following command: sudo usermod -aG video Edit the main nginx config file: sudo nano /etc/nginx/nf.

Raspberry pi 2 ffmpeg build plex