LMS Image Enhancer is a package to improve image handling for cover and artist pictures by replacing the bundled Image::Scale perl module. The included stand-alone image server can also be used without LMS to process local images.
Features - replaces the PNG/JPG image formats with WebP - better image quality - smaller image file size → faster network transfer, smaller LMS database sizes uses superior algorithms for up- and down-scaling - better image quality - faster down-scaling can use smart crop to generate square images (optionally with round corners) - general: attention-based area selection - for artists: face detection to select areas, can arrange faces in a square grid - can use' content-aware image resizing' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_carving) - no forced JPG→PNG conversions (LMS converts any JPG which isn't perfectly square (e.g. 700x701 pixels) to PNG, which results in huge file sizes) - server-side upscaling (LMS doesn't upscale images) - stand-alone image server (local or network) and CLI client More information on the 'homepage' (https://www.nexus0.net/pub/sw/lmsimgoptim/) 'Various SW' (https://www.nexus0.net/pub/sw/): Web Interface | TUI | Playlist Editor / Generator | Music Classification | Similar Music | Announce | EventTrigger | DB Optimizer | Chiptunes | LMSlib2go | ... 'Various HowTos' (https://www.nexus0.net/pub/documents/LMS/): build a self-contained LMS | Bluetooth/ALSA | Control LMS with any device | ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roland0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56808 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114610 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins