(2013-08-11, 12:17)Jay La Funk Wrote: (2013-07-17, 17:48)LjStronge Wrote: Ok thanks
I'll play tonight.
Amber
Bello
ACE
are the three I will be trying.
Thanks guys
Can you give the results of the 3 skins you tried and what one you picked...
Cheers
I used all those on 256 mb Rpi. Best choice performance wise is Amber. A also it has very nice set of features, very pretty and rock stable. Second place goes to Bello. It slower than Amber and I had few crashes with it. I guess it was out of memory. So if you have 512mb Rpi you may not be affected by this. Also overclocking and installing system on fast usb stick would for sure increase performance with Bello to perfectly acceptable level. Ace is the last one, even with bells and whistles turned off i.e widgets and so on it's too slow to use it.
upd. Actually since i own RPi from the very beginning and tried a lot of skins, i have more information
So, skins that i found fast enougn to use on RPi:
1. Default
Confluence and its mods. It's fast and with mods you may have some nice advanced features. My problem with Confluence is that i hate it.
2. ATV clones.
Quartz, xTV-SAF, Si02/x. All of those are run fast on RPi (late versions of xTV are the fastest, i think), have customisation abilities and other nice features. Highly recommended.
3.
reFocus, the original one. It's heavy outdated Eden skin, but after install (manual only,
http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-focus/downloads/list) it runs on Frodo pretty good. Not such eye candy as reFocus big, but it's less resources hungry. reFocus BIG is too big for 256mb RPi, and i think for 512mb too.
4.
Metropolis, old versions 1.x have pretty good performance on PRi, current v 2.xx is less acceptable. However with overcloking and usb intall you may try it.
5.
nbox. The skin created with performance on RPi in mind so it very fast. But there's a major deal breaker for me - only one view for all your media.
6.
MetroTV It's not finished WIP, but it's finished enough to use it. With turned off animations skin is fast and has really nice viewtypes. Also supports clerart, logos and other staff people loves so much.
7.
Immersive. It's runs fast enough, but i find this skin really wierd.
8.
Bello. Very beatiful skin, but see above.
9. My all time favorite -
Amber. See above.
PS. Please be realistic with RPi performance. You CANNOT run any demanding skin on it without unacceptable delays when navigating. Forget about Aeons/Neon/Rapier/Transparency/xperience/etc. If you want run those - change the hardware.