2010-01-15, 23:33
kiboy6 Wrote:Second for Therms:
i) Is the rolling update feature working in your script yet? If not, for now will we need to manually change the "mdate" or "tdate" setting every so often to always get the newest trailers?
ii) Does the "downlimit" parameter only govern how many trailers are downloaded each time, or the total size of the /trailers folder? Ie. do we have to manually delete watched trailers for now?
iii) Any chance you could share a sample .bat file for your script that can be run as a scheduled task in Windows?
Thanks you so so much to both of you (and everyone else involved in HTE's greatness!) I was really sad when the trailers started buffering into hell, but now thanks to your efforts I am so happy that I can be up and running again
1. Haven't implemented the "rolling updates" feature.
2. Downlimit governs how much is downloaded each time the script is run. Rember that ATD keeps a database of downloaded trailers, so in the simplest scenario you can just run a command line like "atd.exe". This will download all the trailers. Next time you run "atd.exe" it will only download trailers it didnt' download last time. That is always the case. So, if you run it each time with "--downlimit 1GB", each time it will download 1GB worth of trailers until it's caught up with all available trailers, then each time after that it will only download new trailers (up to 1GB worth...if there's 1GB worth of trailers depends on how often you run atd).
3. You shouldn't need a batch file. Just set atd.exe to run once a day or whatever.
In other news, I'm not sure how you ever streamed HD trailers from Apple if your internet connection is only 1.5mbit.
For example, a 1080p trailer is on average around 150MB. The average trailer is maybe 120 seconds long.
150MB/120seconds = 1.25MB/second
1.25MB/second = 10 megabits per second
That means you have to do a LOT of buffering to stream on a 1.5megabit connection.