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I too have this issue. I'm using Night Skin with Dharma 10 and have a fairly fast system with an Intel Q6600 CPU & 3GB RAM. Whenever I browse my TV Shows or Movies library, there's a significant lag in both the audio beeps as well as the transition from one title to the next. As someone else pointed out, when the left / right key is kept pressed, some of the posters appear empty as the system is not able to read the images on time.
I have only about 70 movies and about 10 TV shows, yet this problem is pretty obvious. I read somewhere that the audio lag would be fixed when the audioengine is being rewritten. I hope that the graphics are also fixed.
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Does installing multiple skins slow down your current skin in use?
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You could always not use Windows!
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I've built myself a fairly beefy (*ULTRA*-skinny Ubuntu) box, running Aeon MQ2 @ Dharma, which works pretty well, but the fans (CPU & GPU) would rev up like a jet-engine under load, making the viewing experience a bit.... tiresome.
I've now gotten myself an Apple TV 2 (ATV2) - something that's smaller, "sexier" & *MUCH* quieter, but comes with sacrificing sheer grunt (so no MQ2 - I've tried). I've settled on the lightest skin for the platform - xeebo (would like something else with a bit more "flash").
Unfortunately menu transitions are still somewhat painfully slow: 5 - 15+ seconds.
All data is pulled over LAN (SMB in most cases); I've also tried NFS on the Ubuntu host.
I really don't have content dispersed, & basically falls into 4 volumes: movies, tv, music & pictures.
What I'd *really* like, and what would make the whole experience seem a *LOT* more "snappy", is maybe some sort of aggressive pre-caching of content.
Maybe make very low res thumbnails & an initial index of say, 100 items, that could be *quickly* be referenced when changing menu option/navigation, rather than loading everything. That way, the new screen comes up quickly, populated with some very basic content, allowing me to continue navigating *quickly* while the rest of the index is being built up in the background.
This was a problem & minor annoyance on my "beefy" box, but has become really pronounced on the new ATV2.