How does the background filesync? (1 Viewer)

[IceFire]

Can someone tell me, how the background filesync is working?
Does it look every 5 minutes in the watched directory if there is a new movie? Or does it get an event, if i copy a movie in the directory? When does the filesync run? If i have open MediaPortal or all the time?

I'm asking because i have my movies on a external raid storage which is going into sleep mode if no application has access to it.

Thanks for answers

 

[RoChess]

It's a combination, it uses Windows API events, but you can also force a timer.

The timer is handy for when you have network attached storage methods or misbehaving standby/resume hardware.

Inside MovingPictures config you can control the timer part, the API event is internal.

 

[fforde]

Just a few more details. Generally Moving Pictures relies on the operating system to tell it when there are new files in a watched path. The only problem is that this occasionally fails for network attached storage. To deal with this, you can either enable a "manual scan" button that can be used in the GUI or you can tell Moving Pictures to rescan every so often on a timer. Both options are in the config screen.