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Support high performance thumbnail gallery viewer using embedded JPEG #477

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Please consider incorporating a high speed thumbnail gallery viewer that can 
make good use of embedded JPEGs in JPG, RAW, etc.

I have a images stored on NAS which I sometimes access over a slower connection 
(ie wifi). Each image has a good resolution embedded JPEG to facilitate 
browsing.

On a Windows machine, this works very well with Windows Explorer quickly 
rendering large icons from the embedded thumbnails very quickly -- even over a 
slow connection.

OSX does not seem to make any use of the embedded thumbnails, or if it does it 
seems to do so very inefficiently.

Xee is fantastic when rendering a single image, but does not include a gallery 
view making it hard for me to quickly get a bird's eye view of an entire 
directory/gallery.

It seems that the Apple's Aperture product has some moves in this direction, 
drawing a distinction between "embedded JPEG", "thumbnails" and "previews":

https://thephotosexpert.com/tips/2010/5/17/comprehensive-look-thumbnails-preview
s-and-more-aperture-3#.VKnVOCc7Qys

See also this explanation:

https://irfanview-forum.de/archive/index.php/t-8417.html

The part I care about is to quickly be able to get a bird's eye view of a large 
number of images in a directory -- even over a slow connection. A gallery view 
using embedded JPEG images seems to be a good way to achieve this.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by earl.c...@yahoo.ca on 5 Jan 2015 at 12:18