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When paused access the disk every 5 min to keep the disk from spinning down and MPlayer from crashing #748

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
There are USB harddrives (e.g. Western Digital), which spin down after 10 
minutes idle time. If MPlayer accesses the device after that, it crashes.

There is a simple workaround: When not playing a video, access the disk every 
five minutes or so, just to keep the disk from spinning down.

BTW: Thanks a lot for working on MPlayer. I can't believe what an entertainment 
center my Wii has become!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by HelgeHe...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2010 at 2:02