Background scans affect playback of networked isos.

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I have had my oversight set to 10m updates, which has been working fine whilst 
watching TV codec, (720p mkv's etc), but as soon as I watch a DVD iso the media 
will pause and skip whilst a scan is happening.
I have confirmed this by turning it off, watching a movie for an hour, then 
without stopping the movie enabling it via PC and within the 10m time it will 
pause and skip the movie again.

Maybe the automatic scan can check if any media is playing and if so not run if 
this is the case.
I will start having a look on the system, but being linux based (I think?), it 
shouldn't be too hard to find a process that determines that the player is in 
use and not scan if it is.
There is no real need to update the media whilst I am watching something, so it 
doesn't seam like a bad feature/request to me?

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Set your watch_frequency to 10m
2. Watch a DVD ISO
3. Wait for it to pause

What is the expected output? 
I would like to see no interruption to the media stream.

What do you see instead?
I see pausing and skipping of the media when the scan is happening

What version of the product are you using? 
Version r1178

On what operating system?
PCH 
Release date : 7 May 2010
Firmware version : 02-02-100428-19-POP-408-000

Please provide any additional information below.
Only real thing to note is I have a large collection of media
Movies:1048 
Episodes:4207
Other:6

Original issue reported on code.google.com by cameron....@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2010 at 7:19

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see if nice command helps first otherwise add process/loadavg/cpu checks.

Note because ISO is not a streaming format , no buffering etc, this is more 
related mounting of isos across network ?

So I'm tempted to view this as an enhancement rather than a defect.

Original comment by lordylo...@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2010 at 12:22

• Changed title: _Background scans affect playback of networked isos. _
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Yes, I am mounting ISO's from a network share.
It is on a gigabit network.
They are uncompressed DVD ISO's.  (They are DVD's from my own collection so I 
wanted them in original quality)
I will try to look more into it as it could be a load issue or network issue.

And yes I see it as an enhancement rather than a defect.
I could only pick defect when I logged it.

I did also think of another way around this.
Instead of scanning every 10 minutes, the software I use for ripping can run a 
script on completion.  Maybe I get it to run when the rip has finished.  
Having said that, it would be good if the timed scan is available as an option, 
that it doesn't affect playback performance. 

Original comment by cameron....@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2010 at 12:29

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Hi, I've made a change so that image processing is done after scanning. This 
should reduce some of the load? it will be in the next v2.0 testing release..

Original comment by lordylo...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2010 at 12:57