2015-02-03, 12:01
One has working, optimized Software (Pi), the other one is at the beginning.
(2015-02-03, 11:57)Claudio.Sjo Wrote: But... what about Odroid C1?Odroid C1 in Europe is more expensive than RPi 2: 44€ versus 31€
http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/02/02/r...omparison/
(2015-02-03, 11:57)Claudio.Sjo Wrote: But... what about Odroid C1?
http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/02/02/r...omparison/
(2015-02-03, 11:30)adr3nal1n Wrote: Q1. Is it still the case that the kodi library read/writes perform faster on an ext4 formatted USB flash drive as opposed to being accessed via the storage partition on a class 10 SD card?Even on Pi1 USB storage is not necessary better. An sdcard, with good random access 4K read/write performance (e.g. NOOBS card) tends to perform as well as USB, and is simpler to set up.
Quote:Q2. When accessing network file shares mapped as video sources in Kodi (i.e. not mounted first via fstab), will I get better performance from NFS or SMB? (my file server is a linux box and I have both protocols available to serve)NFS is a better protocol for streaming than SMB, mostly due to higher CPU usage required when using SMB.
(2015-02-03, 12:30)pecinko Wrote: 1. Does FANART and textures benefit from increased memory?To be honest it is rare to exhaust memory on a 512M Pi.
Quote:2. What about rendering GUI in 1080? I suppose that won't be a problem anymore?A 512M Pi1 renders gui at 1080p anyway - only the old 256M Pi defaults to 720p GUI.
Quote:3. Do Python scripts benefit from 4core CPU? E.g. Widgets script or similar that are pulling DB info for home shelf items.Main benefit is the python scripts / database lookups can run on a different core to the main GUI, so Kodi remains responsive when other stuff is going on.
(2015-02-03, 13:24)popcornmix Wrote:(2015-02-03, 11:30)adr3nal1n Wrote: Q1. Is it still the case that the kodi library read/writes perform faster on an ext4 formatted USB flash drive as opposed to being accessed via the storage partition on a class 10 SD card?Even on Pi1 USB storage is not necessary better. An sdcard, with good random access 4K read/write performance (e.g. NOOBS card) tends to perform as well as USB, and is simpler to set up.
Quote:Q2. When accessing network file shares mapped as video sources in Kodi (i.e. not mounted first via fstab), will I get better performance from NFS or SMB? (my file server is a linux box and I have both protocols available to serve)NFS is a better protocol for streaming than SMB, mostly due to higher CPU usage required when using SMB.
The faster CPU on Pi 2 will probably mean that SMB is okay for BluRay bitrates. However if you have a choice I'd still choose NFS.
(2015-02-03, 13:37)MediaPi Wrote: It took some time to optimise code for Pi1. Pi2 is backwards compatible to Pi1 so you could argue where now in the next phase in extending the performance. but how much room is there for optimisation on the new SOC?I think multithreading wise there is still room for improvements - along with other things that can be improved for low power devices in general
will it be a sharp increase?
(2015-02-04, 08:42)PeaceMkr Wrote: Is there a need for the licenses to play mpeg2 on Raspberry Pi 2?
Dont find any informations about that..