John, brilliant work!
Let's see:
2414 files, 4.3 gigs, dropped on burn target, MC ready to burn in less than 1 minute.
Changed folder naming rules, MC ready to burn in less than two.
click to burn:
Now, I didn't time the burn, but it was in excess of 20 minutes, which surprised me, as I thought that 16x media would be quicker than that. It was no big deal for this test though, as I had other things to do during the burn. I did pop in and check for hangs or error messages now and then though, and grabbed a quick screenie of a possible refresh problem....
the math here is clearly wrong!!
Anyhoo, burn completes, disc pops out, I pop it back in. There's no files on the disc root, so I brace myself, note the time, and click the show all files button.
MC goes into 'hunter/gatherer' mode....
In less than 3 minutes, the "busy" cursor stops being busy, and the 'hunter/gatherer' animation freezes....
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and then, after around 10-15 seconds, the files appear, and thumbnailing begins.
Job done.
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This is 100x more user-friendly than things were at the top of this thread. Nice that you caught the disc label border and blacked out "close disc" option thing too.
That's burning and listing taken care of.
Before I move on, is there any way to force MC to keep thumbnailing the DVD? If I browse away from the view, or leave it scrolled in one place too long, MC goes to sleep on the job, and as far as I can tell, the 'build missing thumbs' feature doesn't apply to the cd\dvd database (which makes sense), so I have to keep giving MC a nudge to get on with it. Knowing it's a one time only job, I can live with it, but if there's a way to automate it, I'll accept any tips
Next up, working with the files on DVD:
- I removed the DVD from the drive (the following points are all made without the DVD in the drive) and was amazed when MC happily continued to play the files. Knowing this couldn't be right, I closed MC, deleted the contents of the library\cache\ folder and tried again. Now MC prompts for the DVD by volume name, which is good.... but...
[li]if audio is playing at the time, there is no prompt, just a black screen with white "no images" text. This might actually be desirable behaviour, I'm not sure yet, just recording my findings atm.[/li]
[li]right click, image, edit image, does absolutely nothing. no prompt, no editor, nothing. Sending to an external application fares little better... [/li]
[li]photoshop and betterjpeg both launch and do nothing. no prompt from MC or the launched application. acdsee may shed some light on this problem though.
right click, send to..., external, acdsee causes acdsee to throw the following:
MC should prompt for the DVD before sending to external, and then send the full filename (starting with the drive letter) otherwise, external apps are looking for the specified files in their application directories, and of course, failing to find them.[/li]
[li]even with the DVD inserted, MC still does not send the full filename to external apps, rendering those 'send to...' options rather useless. the only workaround I can think of is to set seperate send to rules that include the drive letter, and always remember to use the same drive after that. I've not tested this because it's too lame to pursue any further than just theory[/li]
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Reading over the quote again, it's pretty much all cosmetic, smooth the bumpy ride stuff, much of which probably wouldn't crop up very often, if at all, in the majority of cases.
If the "send to's" could work though, it would save going round the "locate on disk (external)" route, which does work, but feels a long way for a shortcut.
Speaking personally, any further enhancements are always gratefully received, but I can work away fine with things as they are in build 119.
Nice one John, and thank you for listening.
-marko.