Marc Haisenko

> Potentially a divisive opinion, but if we are going to make slideshow accept too many damned files then it should do everything async and should have minimal impact on...

To be clear, it's good to have a debate about the design and bring up concerns. I'm sorry for the rant at the end of the previous post.

I understand you're worried about degrading the experience/performance. And I understand the worries about creating issues that would be hard to debug. But I have an issue with this constant...

I'd like to know from some of the core devs about their feelings regarding the slideshow: is there a chance an asynchronous slideshow design is going to be accepted or...

Thank you a lot for the very detailed reply and history! > * How do we solve the multi-second stalls from loading huge compressed files? Implement some caching and/or automatic...

I finally had some time to continue working on this. I now have a design that works with both preload and on-demand, together with an implementation. The updated design has...

Refactoring, fixing bugs and testing is complete. I've used the slideshow in on-demand mode for several hours, finally streamed 4.5h yesterday with it (actual stream with audience) and it works...

> @DarkDust How do I implement this as a newbie? Would be grateful for any instructions. You need to checkout the branch https://github.com/DarkDust/obs-studio/tree/feature/slideshow2a and then follow the [instructions for building...

So there seems to be people wanting this other than me (see obsproject/obs-studio#3366). There's a detailed RFC, there's a working implementation. What needs to be done to get this merged?

@Fenrirthviti: Waiting for 10 months before asking about the status is pretty patient, no? I'm just an outsider, this is an open-source project which is done by volunteers in their...