Increase Refresh speed

[joveaaron]

Hi. I made my own C# Plugin that fetches the information of any media playing in Windows 10/11 using .net standard 2.0. Inside the plugin LCDSmartie class the

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int GetMinRefreshInterval()

function is set to always return 300 (milliseconds). My code runs very quickly as it's mostly just a series of if's and math operations with easy string manipulation. The problem is that the media position counter updates once every ~5 seconds and I can't find a way to speed it up anywhere. I want to make it so it updates at least once per second so I can show the counter changing in 'real time'. It is not scroll speed. That is fine the way it is right now. I kinda need it to update quickly so I can debug it faster lol.

Hope you can help me out here and once I finish the code I WILL add a post right here with a link to the project code and precompiled binaries

Small teaser (using Spotify as an example):


Thanks,
Aarón

[limbo]

Nice plugin.
The value of GetMinRefreshInterval can be set as low as you like. I suggest to set it to 20 as the lowest valaue to avoid issues.

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// Define the minimum interval that a screen should get fresh data from our plugin.
// The actual value used by Smartie will be the higher of this value and of the "dll check interval" setting
// on the Misc tab.  [This function is optional, Smartie will assume 300ms if it is not provided.]
// 
public int GetMinRefreshInterval()
{
	return 20; // 20 ms (around 50 times a second)
}

There is another limitation on the program interface which can limit the data coming from plugins called DLL check interval. This should be set as low as required but still ny opinion is to keep it above 20

dll update interval.png

Please let me know if this helps.