On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 07:36 +0100, Tommaso Schiavinotto wrote: > I would like to report to the mailing list a critic enhancement > for dealing with RAW images files. > > I filed a bug about this. > > I don't actually know if it is the indexing or the thumbnail creation, > anyway having a lot of RAW images files from digital cameras, I got problems > using tracker. > > Tracker uses a lot of memory and CPU to index (or thumbnail) RAW images. > > In fact using the 'convert' command by Imagemagick RAW images > are indexed (or thumbnailed) through a delegate > (/usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.2.4/config/delegates.xml in Gutsy Gibbon) that > uses the > following command line: > dcraw -w -c > Now this is useless both for indexing, since metadata should be > extracted with: > dcraw -i -v > it does not need to decode the image and it's much faster. > If you instead need a thumbnail using > dcraw -e > you can use the thumbnail inside the RAW file, with no need for decoding. > > In both cases it would be very fast and not memory demanding. To do this you > should deal with RAW images as special cases and do not let convert deal > with > them. >
thanks we will investigate doing this jamie _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
