2013-07-24, 10:53
(2013-07-23, 22:58)zilexa Wrote: I cannot relate my experience with Amber versus Confluence to the discussion above. I am using XBian beta 1.1 on RPi and Amber is absolutely faster. Responds much quicker (in many cases Confluence had waiting time when navigating through menus etc, Amber has none).
I do have to say I use 720p resolution for XBMC UI. 1080p is in my opinion overrated (for UI, not for actual videos ofcourse). It looks very good.
(2013-07-24, 10:14)relyter Wrote:(2013-07-24, 02:46)Turambar Wrote: The Raspberry has problems rendering the GUI at 1080p, so xbmc forces it to render at 720p (see http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Raspberry_Pi/FAQ#Output).
I don't think there's a problems at 1080, it's just a matter of GUI performance on low level hardware. You can turn on true 1080 GUI in RaspBMC settings and see it for youself.
Amber is a very fast skin, it was always comparable to Confluence. I started to use it as a Quartz Reloaded since the first alfas of RaspBMC and still using it. And i think i still gonna use it with my new Q190 . So, RPi user, if you are not happy with GUI performance on RPi, try to install system on fast USB key instead of SD card, try to OC RPi to something higher than 900/500. That's how you get real performance gain.
Just to clear thing up
what we are talking about here is how to workaround problem with DialogBusy (spinning wheel) on RPi. And popcornmix is saying that in this dialog Confluence with workaround implemented is quicker that Amber.