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I will try booting from a USB stick. Can i just clone the SD card to a USB? Then how do i make it boot from the USB instead of the card?
I already have it overclocked. If i remember correctly I'm running at the second from the highest out of the recommended overclocks in the config file.
I have a "Movies" folder with every movie in there. They are all MKV's and there are no other files in that folder, any subs are within the MKV package.
I'm using AFP (Apple) shares to share my media. I have a FreeNas server so i can easily switch between Apple, Windows, UNIX and DLNA shares. Which would be best for my setup?
Thanks!
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I use raspbmc so to run on USB I just selected USB install at the start I'm not sure how its done on openelec but it shouldn't be difficult.
If I was you I'd try NFS for me it doubled my rate over smb once I'd configured it right!
But to be fair using a USB install with a decent overclock and NFS with standard settings should get you much better results. Maybe also put force_turbo=1 in your config file. It voids your warrentu but your pi stays overclocked all the time rather than kicking in when needed
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On mine I can use xbmc to navigate to my folder and select it. What about smb can you navigate to your files that way ?
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Ok no worries. I did see this when researching all three methods though... "AFP offers significantly faster read/write performance than SMB or NFS" So it would appear i was already using the "best" method?
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Do Raspbmc nightly builds include the latest performance patches? I thought Raspbmc nightlies mainly included commits to xbmc master, and not development patches, so are unlikely to include these latest performance patches for some time to come.
If you want to test the performance patches you'll need to try the OpenELEC build linked in the video thread, or one of rbej's OpenELEC development builds as these include development patches.
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