Although I've had MSHEETDIR set up and working for years, I recently started trying to improve how things are set up generally on my WDTV Live.
I have 2 hard drives (one on each USB port) with .MSHEETDIR on one of them containing all my moviesheets. My hard drives are powered on at all times, even when the WDTV is switched off. I understand this is because using early mount, the option in the WEC to power off USB does not work? I'd like to save energy and wear / tear where possible by powering down.
1. Is there any way to use MSHEETDIR without early mounts so the USB can be powered down - and if so how can that be done and what are the pros and cons?
2. Is it possible to eject the USB hard drive manually before switching off the WDTV so it can power down? If so, am I correct that to do so would then need a reboot before the moviesheets would display again?
3. Is it possible to eject as part of a power off script, but that would still then need a reboot as per (2)? If so, could a (potential) workaround (avoiding the need to reboot) be to use a power on script to re-mount the hard drive just like it was before it was powered down. Any advice to point me in the right direction for this?
Using MSHEETDIR clearly stops the need to run linksheets again so my moviesheets are immediately available. When browsing my movies, I have 7 thumbnails horizontally across the bottom of the screen with full screen moviesheets (from MSHEETDIR) as backgrounds, of course the thumbnails are jpgs present in the folders containing the movies.
I had thought that using MSHEETDIR would allow moviesheets to be display almost instantly, but I find that using the left or right arrow button to move to the next movie file and display its moviesheet often takes between 1 and 2 seconds - which feels very slow. All my moviesheets are 1280x720, 24bit and 72dpi, size less than 500kb (mostly less than 150Kb). All my thumbnails are 120x180, 24bit and 72dpi, size less than 8kb. I don't have any moviesheets in folders other than .MSHEETDIR. I've created various mountpoints so as to make the two USB hard drives appear in a single folder list.
4. Is a delay of 1 or 2 seconds (at least 0.5 seconds) when pressing the arrow button to move to the next movie file / moviesheet normal - is that the fastest WDTV Live can display full screen moviesheets?
5. Any suggestions how to speed this up?