2012-03-22, 13:01
I bought a 40GB Apple TV 1 off of eBay a few weeks ago for 50 bucks, threw in a 320GB Western Digital 7200RPM hard drive I picked up for 75 bucks and I just used the ATV-Patchstick to install XBMC, now that it's all going smooth and I used Cyberduck to throw on a few sample videos and songs to test it out I couldn't help but notice that the videos were very slightly lagging and when I play any audio, I tried three different albums all at different bit rates in .mp3 and they all sound like my speaker is blown. It's just a very slight crackle while technical audio is playing, however when it goes back to simple lyrical acoustic portions of the songs it sounds just fine.
Audio worked fine on this Apple TV when the 40GB hard drive was in there so I don't know if it's the 320GB hard drive or XBMC not working correctly but I did notice that the memory usage is constantly over 85% no matter what I'm doing, even if it's just sitting at the menu screen it's constantly swapping between 85% and 86% usage while the CPU usage is at 0% when nothing it happening.
The Apple TV also seems to be getting much hotter then it used too, is there any way I could possibly boot directly into XBMC and cut out the light OS X install? I think that's what's causing so much memory usage which is probably what is causing the heat issue and the poor bit rate output for audio and video.
I was looking into a linux install to boot directly into XBMC but how much faster is it and how light it is on the resources compared to OS X that comes on it?
Audio worked fine on this Apple TV when the 40GB hard drive was in there so I don't know if it's the 320GB hard drive or XBMC not working correctly but I did notice that the memory usage is constantly over 85% no matter what I'm doing, even if it's just sitting at the menu screen it's constantly swapping between 85% and 86% usage while the CPU usage is at 0% when nothing it happening.
The Apple TV also seems to be getting much hotter then it used too, is there any way I could possibly boot directly into XBMC and cut out the light OS X install? I think that's what's causing so much memory usage which is probably what is causing the heat issue and the poor bit rate output for audio and video.
I was looking into a linux install to boot directly into XBMC but how much faster is it and how light it is on the resources compared to OS X that comes on it?