2009-11-28, 23:05
cake Wrote:1080p playback working smoothly here as well It is pretty "choppy" at first, but it might be related to buffering? It seems as xbmc has enough resources to play with but the system in general is slow and sluggish. Did you guys do any other tweaking other than the stuff davilla already mentioned? I guess I'd be better off running xfce instead of gnome..
I just set up a new session type for XBMC, so instead of going into a gnome desktop at logon it goes straight into XBMC. You can choose the session at the logon prompt. No memory hogging desktop environments for me.
Just create a simple script /usr/bin/launch-xbmc containing:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/xbmc --standalone
Code:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=XBMC
Comment=XBMC
Exec=/usr/bin/launch-xbmc
Icon=
Type=Application
In the logon screen click 'Options' and 'Select session'. Choose XBMC from the list et voila.