2011-05-16, 20:42
pike Wrote:Indeed it is. But you could still offer ideas of how you would want this intelligent caching system to work (I got some ideas already)
Well now that I think about it, I have one minor suggestion from my own experience, right now xbmc seems to throw away video that's already been played, meaning that when you "skip back", the video stream has to be downloaded again, and you wait for buffering once more.
Also we have some users who have children that are watching the same videos again and again (repetition is fun ), it would be nice if the caching system would keep the last 2-3 videos lying around (disk space permitting) or at-least the last played item (ie like the YouTube flash player).
The last suggestion there is something we are working on in the plugin (ie. if a user has downloaded a video we serve up the local copy) so it might not be as important, but the buffering issues during rewind seem very unfortunate.