2013-12-01, 00:31
(2013-12-01, 00:25)EGOvoruhk Wrote:(2013-12-01, 00:04)Lunatixz Wrote: I believe its in your best interest to have your system spin up your drives when using any type of media program...
Like I said, 24 drives, all with media in the XBMC library (Yes, all). I don't want all those drives spinning up just to watch something that's on 1 drive. That problem supersedes all others (for me)
(2013-12-01, 00:04)Lunatixz Wrote: The solution your suggestion on PTV end isn't really possible... Sure I could have it request your next file when the upcoming prompt pops up... but what about your random selection from the EPG? how would PTV know before your pick a show what to "queue" up?
My solution wasn't to have PTV spin up the drive I might chose, I'm aware that's not possible. My solution was to create some sort of filler/title screen based on the database of the movie/TV show selected, like loading up a half screen with the poster, cast info, plot, etc at the bottom, and have it say "Now tuning..." on the top part of the screen. Basically how PTV is a fake channel guide, just fake another screen that fits within the theme. Or if you're currently using PTV to watch something on a drive already spun up, and select something that happens to be on a different idled drive, have PTV display a little overlay in the bottom corner that says "Changing channel..." until it's able to load/access the file
I'm sure there are a bunch of other cool different ways you could create little transitions to cover up the delay
I know I could let everything stay spun up, but I'd rather break the immersion than waste a few dollars a month, I cannot stress that enough. This is just a feature request/wouldn't it be cool if it could work a little differently for people like me, nothing more
I never said my idea was ideal, but IMO it's the only one you have!!
From a technical point of view what you're asking for would never happen...
the amount of work needed to code a backend to universally communicate with every OS I/O system to know if a drive is a sleep or not is a lot of work...
then you would have to re write PTV from the ground up because what your asking could never easily be squeezed into the framework in place...
So we are back to my suggestion which really is the only one... or you could move all your data around and only spin up a few drives for PTV...
Don't shoot the messenger!!