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Quick start guide for installing JRiver Mediacenter 21 ARM for Raspberry Pi
mwillems:
--- Quote from: roognation on October 20, 2015, 07:56:40 pm ---I forgot to mention: I disabled the Spectrum Analyzer right out of the gate...still pegged at 100% during playback without the analyzer running. Anything else we can try?
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Overclocking the pi. I had difficulty getting perfectly smooth playback with a model 1 B+ which had some optimizations over the B. I think overclocking is pretty much your only route to more performance, and there's no guarantee you'll get there.
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I know you can use VNC to allow MC to run headless; I can use Gizmo for most of the control; does that take less resources than using a display?
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It doesn't require fewer resources because MC requires X to run, so it's just running a virtual x server instead of a physical x server which has about the same memory and CPU consequences. The pi's desktop environment has a pretty low profile, but you could try using an even lower profile window manager like fluxbox or i3 or something. But if I were you I would have a look at top and see what's using the CPU. I'd bet MC is using virtually all of it.
bob:
--- Quote from: roognation on October 20, 2015, 07:56:40 pm ---I forgot to mention: I disabled the Spectrum Analyzer right out of the gate...still pegged at 100% during playback without the analyzer running. Anything else we can try?
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I know you can use VNC to allow MC to run headless; I can use Gizmo for most of the control; does that take less resources than using a display?
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If you are just rendering audio you could try minimizing MC, there is always at least a bit of windows eventing going on when it's not minimized.
bob:
FYI, I used this guide to install flawlessly on Raspbian Jessie.
The updated OS gives more choices for the audio devices, you might be able to select analog vs hdmi without mucking with the config file.
mwillems:
--- Quote from: bob on October 22, 2015, 01:16:00 pm ---FYI, I used this guide to install flawlessly on Raspbian Jessie.
The updated OS gives more choices for the audio devices, you might be able to select analog vs hdmi without mucking with the config file.
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Thanks for the confirmation, I haven't done a tear down rebuild yet since the switch to Jessie, so it's good to know that everything is working.
roognation:
Yes, n00b question here: what is the best way to get MC21 to start when the Pi powers up? I have the option checked under options-startup, but that did not seem to do anything; I am happy to put a script to work, but need a push in the right direction. Thanks in advance.
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