[Part 1] Download torrent & newsserver package

[eth0]

I'd just like to add I'm successfully running XBMC, Transmission, Sick Beard and Couch Potato all at the same time clocked @ 900Mhz. If I play a 1080p film whilst Transmission is downloading then it does indeed lag. I have hacked together (read: badly made, I'm new to Python!) a script that will pause all downloads once you start watching a film and then resume them again once its finished

default.py: http://pastebin.com/fer29Zgn (edit your details on line 21)
addon.xml: http://pastebin.com/mFSB6qvN

Pop both of these files in ~/.xbmc/addons/script.torrentpause and restart XBMC. You will need the python transmissionrpc package, you can install it with `easy_install transmissionrpc`. It's quite limited but it does what I need, feel free to expand on it and I hope its of use to someone

I also built Transmission from the latest nightly build (2.75+) and compiled with:

Code:

--enable-lightweight    optimize libtransmission for low-resource systems:
                          smaller cache size, prefer unencrypted peer
                          connections, etc.

and noticed a slight improvement from the one in the raspbian repo (2.5?)