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twesterm on 26 December 2008
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ssj12 said:
twesterm said:
ssj12 said:
twesterm said:

Did turn off autoplay, but autoplay is a nice feature I like to have. I just don't like to have it when I turn the system on. It's a preference and all it is and don't see why it's so hard to make that two separate options.

 

 

Instant autoplay wouldnt really work. You could exit your game/movie as many times as you want and it will constantly restart whenever the disc is read. The reason for this is that you would have to program it to disc read and unfortunately between leaving a game or movie the disc is re-read. Auto-start at boot is easy to setup because thats a basic OS function. What your talking about is something that would be as annoying to program as a PS2 emu that runs every PS2 game released to date.

 

Think you misunderstood me.  I want two options:

Autoplay when a disc is inserted: yes/no

Autoplay when system boots: yes/no

Both of those are already there but just placed into one option instead of two.  There would be no new features, it's just turning one flag into two. 

I'm not sure where you're getting the instant autoplay idea.

 

 

disc insert = disc read

disc read = auto play

It would be an infinite loop when it comes to exiting/starting disc.

This is why PC game discs with auto-starts built in will auto start whenever you open my computer. It is because your making your PC read whats in your drive. In the programming level it is activating on read or insert of data from disc.

With consoles they always have to know whats in the drive. Autoplay on start-up is a basic boot option for any system. It can be programmed to run start game mode once the system is fully booted by making it so that there is a signal that activated the process.

With a start on read you would basically forcing the start mode signal every read of the disc at OS boot.

 

I think you're really trying to make this too hard.

If both are off, no problem.  This is already done.

If both are on, no problem.  This is already done.  When you start up the console, it starts up whatever is in the drive.  When you insert a disc, it plays whatever that disc is.  This would work exactly how autoplay is implemented now.

If autoplay on disc insert is on and the other is off.  There would be no need to read the disc when the console starts up, it would only have to read the disc when a disc is inserted.  It would just continue to ignore whatever is in the drive as if autoplay how it is currently implemented was off.

If autoplay on console start is on but autplay on disc insert is off.  When the console boots up, it reads the disc as if current autoplay implementation was on.  Nothing new.  If a disc is inserted it does nothing as if current autoplay was shut off.

Since the autoplay feature is already there, it's an easy thing to implement because there are no new features to add, you just have to split them up.  I really don't see why you think this is so hard since we can already turn this on and off.