On Mar 18, 2008, at 11:27 AM, cliveb wrote: > > rtitmuss;280978 Wrote: >> The Squeezebox Controller uses a fixed size cache for the album >> artwork, >> if the cache is full then artwork will be discarded. In r2097 a >> couple >> of artwork related memory leaks were fixed, and I also reduced the >> artwork cache size. The reduced cache is now over cautious while we >> perform some more testing. In a future release the artwork cache will >> be increased. > OK, thanks for the clarification. > > rtitmuss;280978 Wrote: >> The suggestion of using the flash memory or an SD card to cache >> artwork >> has come up a few times, and this is something that is being >> considered. Ideally I'd like to speed up downloading artwork so that >> cache size is no longer an issue. > While I certainly wouldn't want to discourage you speeding up > anything, > it strikes me that artwork download may well be constrained by the > performance of the PC running SqueezeCenter and of the wireless > network, and you have no control over those factors. > > I could easily imagine that no matter how clever your Jive and > SqueezeCenter code gets, a low end PC with an 11Mbs wireless setup > will > never be a slick performer. > > (Example: my server PC is a 533MHz mini-ITX, and I have 54Mbs > wireless. Artwork download is usually fairly snappy but there are > certainly occasional pauses, which correlate with high CPU activity on > the server. The bottleneck is the server PC, not anything to do with > Slim Devices' code).
Currently artwork is sent as an uncompressed .gd file, we're going to look at changing this to small JPEG files, which will transfer much faster and take up a lot less room in the cache. _______________________________________________ jive mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jive
