I'm having an absolute nightmare with the PI so far. Running latest RC3 Raspbmc. I've got lag everywhere including menus and it's constantly crashing and locking up. Everytime I power it on I get a red light solid and nothing else. I have to muck about with the SD card and/or power combination serveral times until it even boots. Last time it booted I got a load of errors with the file system. I've decided to start again with the image on the SD.
Will an unclean shutdown cause big problems then?
When I have got it up and running enough to be in the menus looking at settings without it crashing, I noticed the CPU usage is constantly very high around say 90% on the bar graph. The ram is only at about 20% though. And this is just in the menus doing nothing, not even scraping in the background.
I connected it up to my PS3 Media server service on the PC via upnp discovery and this time my 1080p rips I got a bit further in. They do not stutter as much, but they still do. I set a few settings to make it presumably better like fixed refresh rate of 24hz plus I turned off downmixing of audio and fed it straight to my DTS/HD audio capable receiver so it should be doing the minimal work possible. The 1080p mkv I watched just now got 5 minutes in then locked the Pi up so I had to pull the power.
Before I managed to get HDMI CEC remote control commands working when plugged directly into my TV. Now via my amp...nope. Won't work at all.
At the moment it's just not a case of plug it in and 1080p rips work. Anyone that says it does, I'd like to hear their start to finish guide on what they did and how they have it set up exactly at client and server end, including networking. Or...maybe they are using very low quality 1080p rips.
), but it makes the remote more than usable (direction and enter buttons work even if the video control buttons don't)
