2017-07-17, 16:07
I am running LibreElec (and tried OpenELEC) on my pretty old Intel Ion 2 box with 2 gigs of RAM. Fairly recently, when starting a slideshow, the memory will run out and Kodi will restart. I tried using a samba share, nfs share, openelec, and libreelec, and the kernel logs all will say something about it being out of memory, and I can see the memory running out when executing a 'free' command. Also, performance in the picture area is subpar, taking a long time to pop up with the picture and generate the thumbnails.
It seems like the majority of hardware recommendations out there will say use something other than an Intel x86_64 processor....such as Android or an ARM based processor. My experience with these are not the greatest, as I've discovered they lack performance in the menus and in things other than videos, since video playback is offloaded to an h.264 hardware decoder.
I was wondering what other people's experience has been with using an Android or ARM box with viewing pictures. Does it work as it's supposed to? Should I just bite the bullet and upgrade my box to an Intel x86 processor? As usual, price is an issue but I would rather cry once than whenever I want to view a gallery.
Thanks!
It seems like the majority of hardware recommendations out there will say use something other than an Intel x86_64 processor....such as Android or an ARM based processor. My experience with these are not the greatest, as I've discovered they lack performance in the menus and in things other than videos, since video playback is offloaded to an h.264 hardware decoder.
I was wondering what other people's experience has been with using an Android or ARM box with viewing pictures. Does it work as it's supposed to? Should I just bite the bullet and upgrade my box to an Intel x86 processor? As usual, price is an issue but I would rather cry once than whenever I want to view a gallery.
Thanks!