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rick.ca:

--- Quote ---SX and SY positions can be changed, so 400 X 267 could become 800 X 267 and it will resize to 800 wide, with proper aspect ratio.  Images can't be scaled up from the original, but in this case, the image is HUGE.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQyNTM2NDI0MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTE0NTk3MQ@@.jpg
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Okay, now I see what you mean. That is cool.

It appears the original image is saved as ...@@.jpg and using the form ...@@._V1._SX{x}_SY{y}_.jpg the image can be scaled down by specifying a smaller x and/or y than the original. The standard does seem to be y=400, but I guess they allow any size to be uploaded. I think setting x=600 would be a sensible maximum, but that probably needs to be user-configurable. Some are going to want larger images (than the plugin gets now), but are concerned about download times and the size of their database.

I see posters are handled in a similar way. The size of the originals seem to be in the range of y=400 to 500, however—still far from the quality of images readily available elsewhere.

BTW, I still don't know if a script can add rather than replace a photo. If the IMDb plugin is going to be improved and there's going to be a script that can get lot of different photos, were going to need the ability to add or replace photos in batch mode.

mgpw4me@yahoo.com:
I'm messing with the image upload as we speak.  I have a query out to Nostra in the development forum.  The situation you mention would be resolved if multiple images can be uploaded to people via a script.

There's a script interface to access image info, so it should be possible to parse the image headers to get the image size.  A script option to replace smaller images, append to the image list, load up to x number of images, etc.  Postprocessing might even allow the script to look at the image sizes downloaded and do further processing.

I had to smile when you said you wanted to sleep while 25,000 images were downloaded and at the time I was looking at one person with 7 images over 500k.  Hope you don't have bandwidth limits with your ISP  ;)  I DO have limits and 50,000 people to do.

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---Hope you don't have bandwidth limits with your ISP
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No problem. I'm curious to see how a 100 Gig database will perform.

My people skin is now ready for multiple images. Is your script done yet? ;D

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mgpw4me@yahoo.com:
I have 4 that are nearly ready for Beta...I'll try to get the IMDB script fixed / posted after supper.  I've added 100mb to my database with single images.  I'm running with width=300 in my skin and the visual impact is greatly improved even at that size.

CAD:
If people want images this big and Databases that are 100G + in size with performance issues...

Would it be worthwhile implementing thumbnail view which references the image?
Similar to how xbmc or movie collector work. - keeps the database small and fast and larger images only referenced when user clicks on them / exports them etc or ability to have images external to database - preferences/folders/image folders

Why do people want images this big anyway?

:)


 

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