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All right, I'll go through these and remove them later today. I'm surprised you say that ES File Explorer is malware. My experience is quite the opposite, and I have it on 2 of my devices, where it causes very little trouble,
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Yeah, I saw that article but completely forgot about it, thanks for the link. I will add it to the wiki later today, along with the other changes I have to do
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OK then what would you replace it with, apart from Kodi's file manager?
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OK I'll take care of this. Note, however, that anyone with an ID can change the wiki...Mike
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2017-07-16, 04:55
(This post was last modified: 2017-07-16, 05:24 by mikeagner.)
We've gone WAY off topic here, so let me attempt to drag this back onto the original question - what setting(s) should be set in Kodi to make it run more efficiently and with less space resources on the FireTV or Stick? I would think turning off creating thumbnails would be a big help - particularly for the stick that can be so storage starved. I would have thought that this would be an easy question for the developers, but I guess I was wrong...
It's not documented anywhere that I know of, and given how popular these devices are, it's a topic that should be. Saying that it depends on the TV or monitor is about as broad a statement as a barn door. Most TVs and monitors are at least capable of 1080p these days, so to the point of displaying video, the difference is moot. If there's something special about how the FireTV units interface with Kodi and send data to a TV or Monitor, then that is a valid datapoint from which to start. But processing video is just one issue. What about efficiently using memory? Conserving disk space? Removing or reducing processor load? Would the settings for the sticks be similar to these el-cheapo Chinese boxes that have only 1 gig of RAM and 8 gig of storage? Is that even a place to start? There are many logical questions to be answered here, and I've only begun to not even scratch the surface.