September 11, 201213 yr How well does the PI do? will all the library updating wont it kill the SD card soon? Myk Raspberry Pi with openelec XBMC (work great!) X86 Atom ION with XBMC PS3 Library is on unraid server via MySQL. Works perfect fluid. Artwork is on the class 10 SD and scrolling is smooth. Tell me more. I'm just browsing to my library using SMB. Very very bad idea using samba with Rpi. NFS sure. About MySQL it's easy Unraid MySQL plugin and our excellent forum (XBMC wiki too) http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=11473.msg170004#msg170004 And this http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=18417.msg173456#msg173456 I don't recommend move thumbs and artwork to server.... Not in Eden XBMC. Only move library. Also latest openelec builds improve a lot SD speed. I can get 21 MB in hdparm. Have you tweak your config.txt in Rpi sd? Overclock improve a lot and without risks if not overvolt. Picture see small heatsinks I put on Rpi. I'm using Rpi almost totally stock, no customization. Just plugged it in and added the SMB Windows share. Clearly I have some reading to do.
September 11, 201213 yr Create file config.txt in sd / read this http://elinux.org/RPi_config.txt Commented config.txt file https://github.com/Evilpaul/RPi-config/blob/master/config.txt -- I have my pi working at ARM_FREQ = 900 MHz running 24/7. arm_freq Frequency of ARM in MHz. Default 700 core_freq Frequency of GPU processor core in MHz. It have an impact on ARM performance since it drives L2 cache. Default 250 sdram_freq Frequency of SDRAM in MHz. Default 400
September 11, 201213 yr I also use Plex. I find it a little slow due to all the data being stored on the server rather than locally at the device. But, for $5 at the apple store, your entire collection is available straight through your iPad phone, whatever. Pled is terrific, and hopefully it will get better and more snappy. If I had a TV, I would check out XBMC on a raspberry pi for $35: http://m.lifehacker.com/5929913/build-a-xbmc-media-center-with-a-35-raspberry-pi I have also used the Roku which has a Pled app, and it works like a champ as well. Even over wifi. Somewhat complex with my server setup, but I have Plex Media Server serving up my media from unRAID to a Mac mini and an ATV2 running Plex Media Center. Also can access my media and watch statuses on my laptop, iPad, etc. Love how it's all connected, even when away from my home network. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk 2
September 11, 201213 yr How well does the PI do? will all the library updating wont it kill the SD card soon? Myk Raspberry Pi with openelec XBMC (work great!) X86 Atom ION with XBMC PS3 Library is on unraid server via MySQL. Works perfect fluid. Artwork is on the class 10 SD and scrolling is smooth. Rpi does all hardware video decoding via GPU. No problem with 720, 1080p mkv or fullbluray rips (+20 gigs h264). Perfect doing 24, 25 or 30 hz. Audio pass through via hdmi to my Samsung Tv (dd, dts, dtshd..) decoding works as good as my ion box. In menu almost the same but 100% enjoyable. As you see my so-quick-done 0 $ case (hidden inside wardrobe) How are you syncing your thumbnails on openelec across different devices if you're keeping them all local? I currently have all windows machines and I am using dropbox to sync thumbnails. But I am running out of the 2GB free space (currently at 1.8GB) Keeping them local, it takes a second or two to enter the movie library (750 movies). Thumbnails on network share (unraid), it takes 5 seconds over gigabit ethernet. 100 M/bit takes about 12 seconds and even slower on wifi. I would like to switch to openelec on some machines but haven't figured out how to sync local thumbs. Rsync?? Thanks
September 11, 201213 yr How well does the PI do? will all the library updating wont it kill the SD card soon? Myk Raspberry Pi with openelec XBMC (work great!) X86 Atom ION with XBMC PS3 Library is on unraid server via MySQL. Works perfect fluid. Artwork is on the class 10 SD and scrolling is smooth. Rpi does all hardware video decoding via GPU. No problem with 720, 1080p mkv or fullbluray rips (+20 gigs h264). Perfect doing 24, 25 or 30 hz. Audio pass through via hdmi to my Samsung Tv (dd, dts, dtshd..) decoding works as good as my ion box. In menu almost the same but 100% enjoyable. As you see my so-quick-done 0 $ case (hidden inside wardrobe) How are you syncing your thumbnails on openelec across different devices if you're keeping them all local? I currently have all windows machines and I am using dropbox to sync thumbnails. But I am running out of the 2GB free space (currently at 1.8GB) Keeping them local, it takes a second or two to enter the movie library (750 movies). Thumbnails on network share (unraid), it takes 5 seconds over gigabit ethernet. 100 M/bit takes about 12 seconds and even slower on wifi. I would like to switch to openelec on some machines but haven't figured out how to sync local thumbs. Rsync?? Thanks You really don't need do nothing with today Frodo betas (as openelec or raspbian or other) Thumbnails original path (internet) are stored in the library so as you share library if you update library in one XBMC thumbnail are downloaded to that machine. Then when you open the others XBMC's the new movies/tv shows are in shown in screen (without update library) and XBMC itself download all artwork. As we can read in the XBMC wiki: FUTURE FRODO FEATURE: The art URLs associated with library items are stored in the art table inside the video or music databases. These store the original URL to the art (eg from http://themoviedb.org, http://thetvdb.com, or http://theaudiodb.org). This means that central databases store where the art is obtained from, and multiple clients then just keep a local thumbnail cache as described below. Same thing happens sharing artwork, it's now a mistake, I'm my opinion. We always get a caching version of thumbs and fanart local!! XBMC use a local cache file, texture.db. System reads jpg/png/tbn once (or none if URL path is on db). Older version work in different way so lot of people continue sharing jpg/tbn wrong way. Extra info: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Thumbnails/Cache And here: FUTURE FRODO FEATURE: This is step is not required for XBMC v12 (Frodo). Sharing thumbnails with Frodo/nightly builds is just slowing things down. Don't do it - you don't have to. Frodo will automatically take care of thumbnail caching on each client for you and keep them in sync. http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Sync_multiple_libraries/Sync_thumbails_and_fanart Hope it clarify things.
September 12, 201213 yr Thanks garion, I had heard of the Frodo thumb cache update, but the detailed explanation certainly made it clearer. I didn't realize you were using the openelec nightly builds (Honestly I wasn't even aware they existed) I thought openelec only had the stable (Dharma) and the beta (Eden) versions. I'll be sure to give the Frodo version a try (The only problem with that is that I would have to update all the machines to Frodo to make sure they use the same mysql db) Thanks
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