[openbeos] Re: The importance of a FAT32-driver
- From: "Rob Tijssen" <rob.tijssen@xxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:57:11 +0100
Hello,
I think they read ahead some peace of it to get some kind of a buffer in
stead of directly showing what they read, this give AND speed in starting
and give playing without that much disturbance/glitches.
metthinks,
greets,
Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregor Rosenauer" <rosenauer@xxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 8:39 PM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: The importance of a FAT32-driver
> Marcus wrote:
> > >So please Marcus and/or helpers, improve the current FAT32-driver
available on BeBits -
> > Thomas Kurschel (author of the IDE replacement driver) is currently
looking into this.
> Great - new IDE-driver + new FAT-driver would make a good match:-)
>
> > In April I'm going to check what already has been done, and I will have
some more time.
> Very good to hear that - I use (Open+)BFS wherever I can of course, but
sometimes FAT-access is needed, and BeOS often handled FAT-drives better
than Windoze...;-]
>
> > I'm also team leader of the media kit, and must say that the current
BeOS R5, as well
> > as the (non public) Media Kit beta one has problems with mpg file
playback.
> I can only second that..
>
> > The R5 one reads the whole file before starting playback, the beta scans
it
> > in the background. The first one results in long startup time, the
second one will
> > in conjunction with FAT-32 result in very choppy playback.
> ic - did not know that.
> How do other players on other OSs handle this? I did not notice such
behaviour on "The Playa" or MediaPlayer in Win, for example...
>
> > regards
> > Marcus
>
> Gregor
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>
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