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braz96 / skin.mimic

A Kodi skin with touches of reFocus and Aeon Nox.
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High CPU on RPI #36

Closed alexhass closed 8 years ago

alexhass commented 8 years ago

I tried installing mimic on my rpi 2, but it looks hanging very often. After some digging I have seen that the cpu is nearly always at 100%. Any chance mimic may work more fluent on RPI?

It is really the best skin for kodi and my default... Do not like to use any other.

OpenElec 6.0.3

braz96 commented 8 years ago

I would think the rpi 2 is powerful enough, as others have run it on the original rpi. I don't have either though, and have never tested the skin on low-powered hardware. Probably not much I can do that wouldn't involve completely redesigning the skin.

alexhass commented 8 years ago

I'm not sure what is causing the high cpu. We should find out very first.

Maybe you have an idea so I can try a few things like disabling animations or so.

I do not say it does not work... Its just very slow because of 100% cpu load and every click takes a lot more time than normally on faster systems. The loading circle is shown everywhere. The high load makes it very unresponsive...

Maybe we can find the root cause and turn off what is causing this and we are done... Without big changes to mimic.

braz96 commented 8 years ago

If there is a certain area that is sluggish it might be possible to pinpoint the cause. If it's the entire skin, though, I wouldn't know where to start.

Have you tried other skins, including Aeon Nox? Is Mimic the only one that is slow?

braz96 commented 8 years ago

My guess, based on other discussions I've seen on the forum, is that the busy animations themselves may be a problem on the rpi. You can test by removing the busy animations from 2 places.

1) 1080i/Includes.xml, search for "busy animation" and comment out that control.

2) shortcuts/template.xml, search for "WidgetBusyAnimation" and comment out each one of those includes you find.