dip;549584 Wrote: > > I think I will give the Touch a try to see how the performance of > CustomBrowse is. Perhaps it is better as on the Controller, perhaps I > find another workaround, or perhaps the CustomBrowse problem is solved > until then ;) > I'm not sure if it makes you any happier but I feel that the performance problems needs to be solved, it's just a matter of how, as I look at there are currently the following options:
1. Logitech decides to implement flexible browsing and we don't need Custom Browse anymore (this will obviously not happen before July) 2. I find some easy way to optimize Custom Browse to get decent performance 3. Make it possible to configure Custom Browse to just show basic information and instead get better performance. I suspect this means that we for example need to skip album art. The issue currently is that to be able to display album art Custom Browse runs a separate query for each entry in the menu, the result if there are many items in the menu is poor performance. I think it might be pretty easy to add a configuration option to make it possible to configure it to not run these extra queries. 4. Create a new plugin which offers a bit less flexibility with the advantage of improved performance. If I select this route it might even result in making a special version of SBS which have the necessary plugin API changes to integrate it better with the core code. It would probably mean that only Linux and OSX would be supported, so I would prefer to find a different solution since many people still uses Microsoft's crap. Option 2 or 3 might happen before July if I get some time and there is an easy fix, I'm pretty sure option 1 or 4 won't happen before July. The limited flexibility in option 4 would probably still satisfy 95% of the users since I suspect most users use about 5% of the potential of Custom Browse. The problem is just to get to know which 5% of the functionality this is so it can be included in the limited version. However, I really don't want to select option 4 if it means making a special version of SBS, it's only a way out if there isn't any other good options. Option 1 would be my preferred solution but I'm not yet convinced Logitech will prioritize this. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
