[blacklist]

This is something that I probably should know, but perhaps I'm being dense:

Problem: Hard Drives on remote machine sleep, taking a moment to spin up when serving video. Causes XBMC to completely crash on ATV2 when drive isn't ready. Doesn't seem to be a problem on Windows7 computer. Easily reproducible behavior, and video plays fine on restart and play.

Solution: I would be acceptable to me to add a short delay (lets say 5 sec) for any video to play. This would give time for the drive to spin up, or in other cases, might potentially let a device like the ATV2 to start a buffer for the video.

Do we currently have a method to do this? I thought maybe in advancedsettings, but not seeing anything there.

If not, would this make sense, since we are seeing more and more distributed solutions?

[jhsrennie]

XBMC shouldn't crash if the SMB server doesn't respond. At worst it should just report an error connecting. This sounds like a bug in the ATV2 code.

JR

[blacklist]

XBMC shouldn't crash if the SMB server doesn't respond. At worst it should just report an error connecting. This sounds like a bug in the ATV2 code.

JR

That's what I was thinking as well. Although, I'm not using SMB, I'm using WebDAV - so it could be a bug in that code as well. Unfortunately the ATV2 code is super unstable for me lately, I'm going to give it a few nighties and try again.

And before anyone asks, the debug log shows nothing when it happens, just... stops.

[Ned Scott]

What are you using for your WebDAV server?

[blacklist]

What are you using for your WebDAV server?

Windows7

[jhsrennie]

Hmm, I'm surprised that webdav behaves differently on different platforms. With SMB I wouldn't be surprised at a difference because it's a native implementation of Windows. However I'd guess (I don't know that bit of code) that webdav is implemented in the same way on all systems.

JR