[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 519355] constant hard disk usage when playing music

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------- Comment #3 from David Schleef  2008-03-05 22:01 UTC -------
The only advantage for preloading media (mostly sound files) is so that the
hard drive can spin down.  I have yet to see a Linux laptop configured in such
a way that the hard drive is stopped a significant fraction of the time. 
Usually, I observe that the drive spins down for about 2 seconds, then spins up
again.  Until HD spindown is useful in the rest of Linux (or whatever OS), it's
merely a waste of developer time to add support in GStreamer.

Assuming that that problem has been solved, this ends up being mostly an issue
of writing a library for applications (such as rhythmbox) to use that allows
the media player to hint which media files will be needed soon, and load them
into memory.  The media player can then use appsrc instead of filesrc to play
the file from memory instead of a file.

As always, we don't keep track of enhancement requests in bugzilla unless
someone is actively working on the problem, or a GStreamer developer wants to
look after it.  So unless someone steps forward, this bug should be closed.


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