possible to get jpg files for photo-thumbs and previews?
originating from this topic https://feedback.filerun.com/communities/1/topics/1754-photo-preview-generating-cached-only-gets-400x400-resolution
But I figured it would probably be more clear to have this as a separate question.
Currently all thumbs and previews (of photos) can get pre-generated in png file format.
For photos this makes no sense whatsoever. Data loss for previews shouldn't be a problem imo. For other file types maybe it offers a good trade off between sharp/clear small images for thumbs. But for photos it easily gets the file size x10+ for the same result.
Related question; does the photo viewing still work if I convert the thumb and preview PNG files to jpg?
Answer
OK, since I know for browsers it doesnt really matter what the extension of an image is it will show it properly if the extension isnt correct.
So with that in mind I tried to rename the jpg's (converted from FileRun's png) to have a png extension, in the hope filerun wouldn't matter when passing it through the pipe.
And from what I can see chrome network inspector reports the smaller file size for the PNG :-)
So this seems like a feasible workaround to get some sensible cached thumbs and preview files for photos. Still would love FileRun to see this is as a serious enough suggestion to handle photos differently from other cached thumbs (and previews).
The next format is going to be AVIF. Just waiting a little bit longer for Microsoft to bring Edge in line with the rest of the browsers.
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The next format is going to be AVIF. Just waiting a little bit longer for Microsoft to bring Edge in line with the rest of the browsers.