Re: FS#6321 - Universal Image Viewer

2010-11-10 Thread Jonathan Gordon
1) I think this is a pointless topic because how often do people have their files wrongly extensioned? 2) as far as playback is concerned, it is at best non trivial to make it work and would slow down buffering and increase bin/ram usage for a mostly pointless addition. 3) I don't see why this woul

Re: FS#6321 - Universal Image Viewer

2010-11-10 Thread Bertrik Sikken
On 8-11-2010 2:16, Teruaki Kawashima wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to ask for testers for FS#6321 - Universal Image Viewer > > The patch unifies jpeg viewer, png viewer, and bmp viewer to one plugin, > image viewer so that you can navigate through different image formats. > Downside might be that the

Re: FS#6321 - Universal Image Viewer

2010-11-10 Thread Johannes Linke
Am 10.11.2010 23:03, schrieb Jonathan Gordon: 2010/11/10 Jonas Häggqvist: How do the codecs handle this? Silently ignores the file. Just tried copying a .mp3 to .flac and playing it, track is completely skipped with no reason given. What is the problem with checking for those magic numbers, p

Re: FS#6321 - Universal Image Viewer

2010-11-10 Thread Jonathan Gordon
2010/11/10 Jonas Häggqvist : > How do the codecs handle this? Silently ignores the file. Just tried copying a .mp3 to .flac and playing it, track is completely skipped with no reason given.

Re: FS#6321 - Universal Image Viewer

2010-11-10 Thread Jonathan Gordon
Probably a very sensible idea. On 10/11/2010 10:32 PM, "Teruaki Kawashima" wrote: > (2010/11/10 1:16), Alex Parker wrote: >> On 9 November 2010 16:57, Teruaki Kawashima wrote: >>> >>> Thank you for suggestion and information. >>> I agree that it would be better to look for magic number. >>> but I'

Re: FS#6321 - Universal Image Viewer

2010-11-10 Thread Jonas Häggqvist
On 09-11-2010 22:25, Paul Louden wrote: I think an error message saying "Image appears to be a .png" when a .bmp is loaded with the magic numbers for a PNG, and possibly a refusal to load it, makes some sense. Being too intelligent and acting like nothing went wrong isn't really an entirely posi

Re: FS#6321 - Universal Image Viewer

2010-11-10 Thread Teruaki Kawashima
(2010/11/10 1:16), Alex Parker wrote: On 9 November 2010 16:57, Teruaki Kawashima wrote: Thank you for suggestion and information. I agree that it would be better to look for magic number. but I'll leave it for now unless it causes serious problem that judging by file-extension. teru Wheth