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Try OpenELEC and XBian. They're much much smoother at the menu (over 60fps at 1080p when you disable the RSS ticker on OpenELEC). It helps if you overclock the already overclocked Xbian too. I have mine set on around 920MHz (no change in voltage though) and have it running all day for about half a month now. Seems to be working fine.

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Raspbmc stuttered every few seconds when playing 1080p video when I last tried it (a month or two ago). OpenELEC, however, has performed fantastically; occasionally lags a touch on some menus and with some recent builds the cover art appears to be.. erm.. blocky, but for actual playback it's great.

I have experienced the same, but after updating raspbmc to RC5 it runs just fine.

I recommend installing the refocus skin (sadly it's not in the repo but you can grab it here: http://xbmc-focus.googlecode.com/files/skin.refocus.release-... and install via USB), it gives me around 10 extra FPS over the stock Confluence skin. Have you overclocked yet? If you run at 900MHz, i swear it feels like a whole new device. You will need to mount your /flash partition as rw though (mount -o remount,rw /flash), because it's set as read-only normally.

I can vouch for OpenELEC. What do you mean by "already overclocked"? Does XBian overclock your pi?

Yes, in fact it looks like they accidentally voided some people's warranties. http://xbian.org/2012/10/08/a-warning-about-overclocking/

I see, thank you. Does anyone have an opinion on XBian vs OpenELEC? I use the latter and it's fine, but if the former has overclocking, I should switch to that.

Recent firmware has been changed to allow you to overclock your Pi http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2008

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