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xbmc is terrible on a Raspberri Pi, it's way too slow.

• cookiecaper 12y ago
  It's greatly improved with XBMC 13.0+, which included a bunch of optimizations to make XBMC on the RPi more bearable. Go through the XBMC Raspberry Pi wiki page to turn off things that waste CPU (like the RSS ticker). It also helps to use rpi-config and select the modest overclocking option (the one that doesn't change any voltages). XBMC is very smooth after doing those things. The only issue I still have is that the wifi dongle I attached to the RPi can only pull 10Mb/s. I hear this is due to lack of power provided by the RPi to its USB ports and that it can be mitigated by using a powered USB hub, but I haven't tried that yet. 10Mb/s is enough to stream SD and some HD, but not all HD. I've tweaked the buffering settings to make this a little more bearable but honestly I usually end up transcoding a lower-bitrate version for the RPi to stream, which is a pain without a UPnP server to do that transparently.
  • kudu 12y ago
    Just wondering, what distro are you using? Did you set up XBMC on Raspbian yourself or are you using something pre-packaged like OpenELEC or Raspbmc?
    • cookiecaper 12y ago
      I set it up on Raspbian, but I used the binary packages provided by [Michael Gorven](http://michael.gorven.za.net/raspberrypi/xbmc http://michael.gorven.za.net/raspberrypi/xbmc) instead of compiling from source as described by the Raspbian wiki.
  • stevewillows 12y ago
    A USB install of Openelec on a Raspberry Pi overclocked to 'Super' (1000..) works well. Not as good as a more powerful system, but as far as the pi goes this is the fastest option.