Slow lister plugins for viewing images

mikeyww · Post by *mikeyww » 2006-11-25, 02:02 UTC

I notice that the image-viewer plugins are slow to load. I usually wait several seconds to view a first image with a plugin. It would be great if the delay were shorter!

Post by *petermad » 2006-11-25, 02:10 UTC

Wich plugins are you referring to? Mine always load in less than a second.

mikeyww · Post by *mikeyww » 2006-11-25, 02:20 UTC

I have several listers installed, including SGViewer, Imagine, MyViewPad, ICLView, anytag, AmpView, OOView, excellence. I generally view gif, jpg, and png image files. Perhaps the problem is that I have too many listers installed?

Post by *petermad » 2006-11-25, 02:26 UTC

2mikeyww

Perhaps the problem is that I have too many listers installed?

Maybe, I only have Imagine, ICLView and IMGView installed for images and that works OK.

icfu · Post by *icfu » 2006-11-25, 02:35 UTC

I usually wait several seconds to view a first image with a plugin.

It's normal that the first image load it needs a little time. TC only loads a viewer when needed. Every sequent runs should be fast though because the viewer stays loaded in memory until TC is closed or the command cm_UnloadPlugins is used.

Try putting Imagine to the top of the list of the lister plugins, does that help?

Also Imagine has an option "View -> Display while loading" which slows down image processing, disable it.

Icfu

mikeyww · Post by *mikeyww » 2006-11-25, 03:05 UTC

Thanks for the help. Imagine was indeed faster, but I found SGViewer to be the better viewer. I guess I will wait for the image to load. Yes, it is the first image that is the slow one. I wish there were a way to force TC to load the viewer on startup instead of when needed.

Alextp · Post by *Alextp » 2006-11-25, 06:06 UTC

2mikeyww
If it's too slow, try to use IrfanView instead (it's not plugin).

mikeyww · Post by *mikeyww » 2006-11-25, 13:02 UTC

Thanks. I like being able to view the images with a quick plugin. . . .

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2006-11-25, 13:10 UTC

2mikeyww
Try downloading and installing the Intel jpeg library
http://wincmd.ru/files/ijl15.dll.zip
This should make jpeg displaying faster in SgViewer.

mikeyww · Post by *mikeyww » 2006-11-25, 13:14 UTC

Thanks. I tried the ijl15.dll. It did not help much. I went back to IrfanView--by far the fastest solution!

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2006-11-25, 13:33 UTC

2mikeyww
Make sure you have activated the library in SGViewer options.

mikeyww · Post by *mikeyww » 2006-11-25, 17:44 UTC

Thanks for the tip. I did not have it activated, but even after activating it, loading the first image is delayed. I did a few tests with a timer. On my machine, the typical SGViewer load time for the first image is 2-3 seconds. The typical IrfanView load time is less than one second--not a huge difference, though noticeable. I guess I will keep both for now.