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I have recently bought, raspberry pi 2 Model B, with 1GB ram and quad core. Added 16GB samsung class 6 SD Card.

I have successfully installed OpenELEC on it with Aeon Nox MQ5 on it.

I have noticed Pi is little sluggish when you are moving between menu on home screen. It works but not very flawlessly. It stream videos from youtube without any problem in high quality. But when I am trying to play 1080p MKV files from Synology NAS it is struggling to play it.

Has other people noticed same thing ?

Anyway to improve the performance.

With different skin like Amber or Aeon Nox (standard) UI works fine but it still struggles to play 1080p MKV videos.

Any suggestions ??

microchip78
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You could try:

  • Increasing the memory dedicated for the GPU - on Raspbian etc this can be done via raspi-config, otherwise you need to edit the boot config.txt file (see here)
  • Trying a different video format, by transcoding the video into something else, e.g. H264 (mp4) or Theora (ogv). This can be done via a tool like FFMpeg
  • Use a optimized player like OMXplayer (this may be in used already)
Wilf
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Check codec of your video. maybe you should buy codec license keys: http://www.raspberrypi.com/license-keys/

Cyan
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