zpanderson Wrote:It is an interesting question we've got here... I was just messing around and set it to wait until the file is 100mb and show the progress dialog. I'm not sure how to determine what the minimum would be though...

[EDIT] I thought about it some more and decided that we can get the file size from megaupload page and then have a setting to say what % of the file we want cached before it starts playing (updated code snippet as well)

Code:

source=GetURL(url)
        match=re.compile('<strong>File size:</strong> (.+?) MB<br />').findall(source)
        fileSize = float(match[0])
        minSize = (fileSize * int(selfAddon.getSetting('download-percent-before-playing')) / float(100)
        #minSize = (fileSize * int(40)) / float(100)
        print 'This is the minSize: ' + str(minSize) + ' and this is the fileSize: ' + str(fileSize)
        dProgress = xbmcgui.DialogProgress()
        dProgress.create('Downloading', vidname, '     will start playing as soon', '      as it reaches the minimum size')
        while 1:
            if os.path.exists(mypath):
                downloadedPercent = int((os.path.getsize(mypath) / (float(minSize)*1000000)) * 100)
                dProgress.update(downloadedPercent)
                print 'updating percent to ' + str(downloadedPercent)
                if os.path.getsize(mypath) > (minSize * 1000000):
                    print 'file is now > ' + str(minSize)  
                    dProgress.close()
                    if dlThread.isAlive():
                        listitem=Item_Meta(name)
                              
                        play_with_watched(mypath, listitem, '')
                
                        #xbmc.Player().play(mypath, listitem)
                        addDownloadControls(name,mypath, listitem)
                        break
                print 'downloaded file isnt big enough yet'
                xbmc.sleep(1000)

To try and fix the issue where you run out of downloaded video to stream (and it kills the stream) could we monitor the percentWatched and make sure it is over the percentDownloaded then wait for a while? I know that isn't an exact match, but it might at least keep it close...

rvas18 Wrote:Eldorado, have you considered adding your git to your sig? It drives me nuts digging through the thread everytime i want to review changes. I guess im to lazy to bookmark

zpanderson Wrote:So what have you decided on the whole download_and_watch wait functionality. I can help more on it if you let me know what needs to be done.

Eldorado Wrote:spoyser - this one sucks, it looks like the x27 is causing the issue.. if it was properly replaced then the lookup would have worked... need to track down in the icefilms code why the x27 isn't being removed

Eldorado Wrote:Also, can you give ndeshmukh's mod a try and see if you can use either File Based or Env Based D&W? I'm hoping we don't need to implement both..

Eldorado Wrote:How would you guys like alpha testing to be done? Should I set it up into a repo so that you get the updates automatically?

spoyser Wrote:Since it only happens from the search results I guess the x27 code isn't being fixed up in the find_meta_for_search_results function (could it be missing a call to CLEANUP?)

Automatic updates sounds good to me, I have that feature switched off by default (stops my personal hacks getting overwritten!) but selecting update in XBMC is still easier than downloading them manually from git.