Xbian 1.0 - disappointed

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(1st Oct, 2013 11:48 AM)raspberry_pd Wrote:  A vanilla install of XBMC can never be compared to an in-action one, with a substantial library, IMHO. Perhaps XBian could reduce tester complaints about speed if everyone tested with a significant-sized, identical and consistent library of files? Might sound hard to achieve but this is the era of bittorrent

I never had my hands on the Plex system so will not compare - simply I can't. XBMC started as being standalone player long time ago and Plex was reworked with a different target group in mind.

User has to grown - and user's needs + user's hw appliances - to feel a full benefit or at least being able to understand the benefits.

Majority of users with one piece of HW simply don't even need to grow there. They will not benefit from such redesign.

I started the same way, with old ATV2. Then I bought a second and now have 2ATVs and 2RPIs. Media library developed as well and finally ended on central dedicated NFS share. And because all evolves, XBMC was forced to make it possible to take some advantage of such setups - of course because of it's design to serve as one standalone media center it will hardly grow to a full client/server appliance, but with central SQL hosted libraries and shared shares/settings/Thumbnails it at least makes things be really centrally managed.

Of course this doesn't move transact operations out of the local box and you can see it immediately if you try to browse music library with 25.000 songs. To be honest, it's not the right feeling even on Quad core i7 running XBMC. It is maybe only thanks to my love to apple and Cloud services I don't feel the urge to try Plex approach.

But again, you will hardly explain benefits of warm water to our people living whole lives in forest.

I remember there was a Plex client for ATV2, don't remember if it was XBMC add-on (probably not) or jailbreak + client as application.

I'm not sure if for instance uPNP can provide feel of Plex approach to XBMC in future (if ever), but to be honest you would again need special powerful XBMC install again to act as uPNP provider and then you could already been asking, why not throw it away and migrate to something what is already there for years and proven like Plex.

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btw: as to the topic of being contructive non constructive - people are who they are - and even if personally hating the discussions "who can piss longer", somehow I can understand people being angry - they will sleep over and day will looks brighter again

(and this is meant generally, didn't want to stress IriDium or even Castala).