JJZolx;661354 Wrote:
> But do they need to be pre-cached? I can see the typical user enabling
> photo scanning without realizing that it's going to double or triple
> the overall scan time, and then browse photos very rarely.
>
Not for reality, because you are only really going to use thumbnails
after you have browsed into an individual folder or a specific date and
in that context there aren't many images so generating the thumbnails on
demand should be fast enough. Only reason to cache them is to make it
look faster when demonstrating it in the store or at some other event.
JJZolx;661354 Wrote:
>
> Demo scenario? Demo of what?
>
Demo that you can browse and view photo library with the Revue.
JJZolx;661354 Wrote:
>
> If in reality something is used rarely, you need to balance the
> increased scanning time against the speed or inconvenience of
> generating those resized images on the fly. There's a performance pref
> that controls pre-caching of resized cover art for the music library. A
> couple of new prefs controlling pre-caching for photos and videos may be
> called for.
>
I completely agree.
In my mind it feels like nobody has actually thought about how the new
video and photo functionality should work in reality, it certainly
doesn't work in my libraries, but I guess I'm special who maintain
videos in my MythTV system and maintain photos in a photo management
program and categorize photos instead of giving them useful titles and
filenames. Neither MythTV nor my photo managing software writes any
tags to the actual photo files.
To me it feels something like:
- "Oh, we need to be able to display photos, let's make it possible to
browse them and view a specific photo"
But nobody continued the thought one step further they just assumed
that photo and video libraries can be handled exactly the same as music
libraries.
JJZolx;661354 Wrote:
>
> Which brings up another question... What sizes of resized images are
> being pre-cached for videos? Nobody is going to be browsing videos in
> either the web UI or SqueezsePlay.
>
And on top of this, nobody is going to be able to use the automatically
generated video thumbnails to find a specific video. If you want the
thumbnails to be useful they need to be the image used on the cover of
the DVD/Blueray or the one use in advertisements. The only scenario an
automatically generated thumbnail possibly could be useful is for home
video libraries recorded with your favorite camcorder, maybe that's
what LMS is for ?
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