+1
This would be a great enhancement for us Unraid users where disks sleep if not in use. So preroll plays while disk, with requested content, is still sleeping. After preroll ends the content is requested and then the disk spins up. This leads to a gap of up to 15 seconds.
Actually there are three possible ways to fix that, IMHO:
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Like requested here, start requesting and possibly buffering of content as soon as preroll starts. This would reduce the gap by some seconds.
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Wait with playing preroll until content starts buffering. This would move the gap in front of preroll. This is easier to explain to users.
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Give users a hook, or something like that, that fires when preroll starts. With that hook we could spinup the requested disk ourself.
Thanks for bringing this FR up.
