2014-11-16, 23:00
This problem is a bit weird,
The installation works, sort of.
The platform is a small arm (Allwinner A10) credit card sized board running debian. (wheezy). XBMC is installed.
but with the default confluence skin (with it's animations) CPU use is 100%.
the device is unusable, selecting menu items using an attached keyboard just doesn't work, attempting to use the mouse is impossible, there is so much lag just trying to get to the settings screen that it's impossible to use.
I've used UART to connect to the board and run top and can see that the xbmc bin process is using 100% CPU.
some searching suggests that the default animations in the confluence skin may be causing this.
I know I can fix my issues by changing the skin, but since the animations in the skin are so CPU intensive it kills the usability of the platform and I can't change the skin!
if there a way to change the skin outside of the program? editing configuration files or replacing skin files etc?
The installation works, sort of.
The platform is a small arm (Allwinner A10) credit card sized board running debian. (wheezy). XBMC is installed.
but with the default confluence skin (with it's animations) CPU use is 100%.
the device is unusable, selecting menu items using an attached keyboard just doesn't work, attempting to use the mouse is impossible, there is so much lag just trying to get to the settings screen that it's impossible to use.
I've used UART to connect to the board and run top and can see that the xbmc bin process is using 100% CPU.
some searching suggests that the default animations in the confluence skin may be causing this.
I know I can fix my issues by changing the skin, but since the animations in the skin are so CPU intensive it kills the usability of the platform and I can't change the skin!
if there a way to change the skin outside of the program? editing configuration files or replacing skin files etc?