Limit play cache for flash based players possible?

[mborus]

Hi,

on the harddisk based players it saves a lot of energy to cache as much
music as possible. I'm wondering if this is the case for flash based players
like the Ipod Nano.

Currently, the Nano is very unresponsive while it fills it's internal cache.
So when I select a large file (for example a 300MB radio show) it takes
many seconds before I can do anything other than changing the volume.
During this time the flash-access icon is active all the time, so limiting the
cache to a few MB could speed up things a lot here.

What do you think - is this a stupid idea?

If it isn't, is there a setting to limit caching or could I patch
the source code to test this?

[onkel_enno]

I would appreciate that!

[AlexP]

So when I select a large file (for example a 300MB radio show)

The Nano only has 32 MB of RAM, so the size of the file over that is irrelevant .  Also, if there are other files in the directory they too will be buffered.

Anyway, yes you can change the amount of RAM used by fiddling in the source, but I don't know where.

However, the better idea would be to fix the underlying problem.

[ryran]

I don't have a nano, but this sounds like the same symptom that has appeared recently (the last month or so) in ipod videos.

[onkel_enno]

Anyway, yes you can change the amount of RAM used by fiddling in the source, but I don't know where.

Does anyone know where?

[Strife89]

I don't have a nano, but this sounds like the same symptom that has appeared recently (the last month or so) in ipod videos.

Sansas, too.