2012-02-10, 19:19
Hi all. New member here, so be gentle!
I was playing around with alternate skins last night, just to see what kind of creative stuff the community has come up with. (I last used XBMC on an Xbox 1 ages ago.)
I've noted that Confluence (the default) runs extremely smoothly and quickly. The others I've tried - Transparency, Xeebo, Cirrus - have a serious lag when going to my Movies or TV libraries. I didn't use my stopwatch, but it's probably 5 to 10 seconds. There's a delay when selecting any main menu item, but the video libraries is where I spend most of my time.
For each skin, I've turned off most of the extras, like animation effects or extra widgets, since I know the ATV2 isn't a processing powerhouse. That doesn't seem to make a difference.
This isn't a complaint, more of a curiosity. What does Confluence do differently that it's so smooth, while these others are sluggish? There's nothing wrong with Confluence, I just like to tinker.
If there's some way these skins need optimizing for the ATV2, I'd even be willing to help do that.
Does anyone understand what's going on here?
I was playing around with alternate skins last night, just to see what kind of creative stuff the community has come up with. (I last used XBMC on an Xbox 1 ages ago.)
I've noted that Confluence (the default) runs extremely smoothly and quickly. The others I've tried - Transparency, Xeebo, Cirrus - have a serious lag when going to my Movies or TV libraries. I didn't use my stopwatch, but it's probably 5 to 10 seconds. There's a delay when selecting any main menu item, but the video libraries is where I spend most of my time.
For each skin, I've turned off most of the extras, like animation effects or extra widgets, since I know the ATV2 isn't a processing powerhouse. That doesn't seem to make a difference.
This isn't a complaint, more of a curiosity. What does Confluence do differently that it's so smooth, while these others are sluggish? There's nothing wrong with Confluence, I just like to tinker.
If there's some way these skins need optimizing for the ATV2, I'd even be willing to help do that.
Does anyone understand what's going on here?