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Hi there,

is it possible to disable artwork backgrounds ?

I do not find the setting.

 

mike

 

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I was wondering the same thing. Mostly because it seemed like a good guess to speed up the reactivity of the UI.

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You should dig the xbmc doc i'm not sure if there is any.

Which RasPlex version are you running ?

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Me currently 9.9.20

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hmmz i dont think that the background are making anything slower in 9.9.20 

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Ok. Too bad. The GUI reactivity is currently the main issue I'm havin with my RPi as the main Plexclient at the livingroom.

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Me currently 9.9.19

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Ok. Too bad. The GUI reactivity is currently the main issue I'm havin with my RPi as the main Plexclient at the livingroom.

What is the class of your SD card ? 10 is the recommended class and will improve a lot the image loading time.

Also you might want to check some RPi overclocking. The default config has no overclocking and it also boosts the global reactivity.

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Thanks! Currently I've been using a SanDisk Extreme III SDHC 16GB, Class 10. But I've some much fast ones, I will try these. 

Are freezes when browsing through the movie database mostly read cache depended? So the RasPlex client will only load changes in artwork from the server and store the cache persistently on the SD card. And while searching or jumping (PageUP/Down) through the library will synchronously depend on the read cache from the SD card? So will a very fast SD Card help (>100MiB/s) or is the cardreader a bottleneck here (the SD card already has about 30MiB/s read spead, approx USB bandwidth)?

I've a big Plex Library (20TB ZFS) that won't fit in the 512MiB mem, but is decoupling the image rendering thread from the GUI an option? So the GUI will show an placeholder thumbnail and paint the real thumbnail offloaded from the main thread in the background. Or for example keep an even more compressed thumbnail version in memory and replace with the real thumbnails later.

I've also just ordered a cheap set of heatsinks build for the Pi and will try to overclock my machine.

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Well class 10 sdcard should be already good enough.

All the artwork is already loaded in the background and displayed once loaded independently from GUI, but RPi is a single core ... so it's not as effecient as its can be on a multicore CPU.