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raspberry_pd · 6th Jan, 2013, 10:07 AM

(2nd Jan, 2013 03:46 PM)Koenkk Wrote: It's sad the attitude to this is bad. In my case it significantly increased the playback performance.

I don't think we have a bad attitude to your suggestion Koennk, just a skeptical attitude. I tried changing this setting and it made no difference to me. The reality is that the XBMC doco says this:

Quote:XBMC will not buffer ahead more than this

I would be very happy to have the majority of the Pi's 512MB of memory used to aid smooth video playback if that were in fact possible. I see very little reason to keep a significant amount of memory free 'just in case' when using a program like XBMC which has such a relatively singular focus - video playback - compared to a desktop operating system, for example.

For me it's more a matter of not refusing to take you suggestion seriously, or being insufficiently worried about memory usage. It's more a case of not being sure this will make any difference.