Glenn wrote: >Again... thanks for for reminding us how THIS works. ;-) > >IIRC, >There are 2 settings "hard coded" into Arachne. >16m color BMP conversion and 256 color. > >Which it uses depends upon the video config in Arachne.pck > >Hicolor mod....... convert JPEG to 16m color BMP >any other mode.... convert JPEG to 256 color BMP > >Bernie??? ;-)
Yes? >Does it ever use -colors 16 ??? Nope. However, *this* is how it works ;-) Not Hicolor -> convert into 256 colors Hicolor -> Nothing special (DJPEGs default is used, which is 16M colors) And then if there are any special settings in Arachne.cfg they are added. If not Arachne specifies that it wants to convert into BMP. So why don't convert into less than 256 colors? I did a few test with the first JPEG file I could find, weirdly enough it was actually a picture of you Glenn (bummer, I was looking for a picture of something interesting <EG>) 16M colors 921 654 256 colors 308 278 16 colors 308 278 8 colors 308 278 Greyscale 308278 Although the quality is lower as we go down there's no diffrence between them in size. So is there no point in converting into a more "appropiate" one? There's no reason for size, but it's faster to convert into less colors (or so it seemed, I need another test to verify that) - especially greyscale (in theory we have less than 1/3 of the work left with greyscale). But should core.exe have this information hardcoded? It's already possible to specify these things in arachne.cfg, or it could have been if Arachne doesn't do as it already does... IMHO Arachne should either take care of everything, and then have the information that the monitor is monocrome, or we should leave all of this to the settings in arachne.cfg. In the later case they should of course be set just like all the other current settings. As it is now we have something in between (and I have no idea what will happen if we have both -colors 16 and -colors 256. And Michael, if you're reading this, this is also something I've mentioned a long time ago.... On an unrelated (or should I say related?) subject, how's the CVS going? //Bernie
