Re: [Libxine-java-devel] Capabilities and future

[Matthias R. <mri...@in...>]

concerning the album cover in oxine:

from their installation notes, I conclude that they reduce the number  
of color for a thumbnail to less than 255 and then let xineosd show it.

> This library is necessary if you wish to display thumbnail or cover  
> images. Although it is also possible to use ImageMagick for this  
> purpose the higher speed of gdk-pixbuf (around factor 10 compared to  
> ImageMagick) makes it the better choic.
>
> Because gdk-puxbuf does not provide a method for reducing the number  
> of colors in an image and because the OSD of xine-lib only support  
> 256 colors oxine has to do the color reduction. This leads to a  
> slightly worse image-quality than when using ImageMagick.


I still have to figure out, how the pass the thumbnail to the xine osd  
renderer, as there is only draw_bitmap which I thought would only use  
B/W images, but it should be possible. Loading images in Java is  
actually pretty easy, and even reducing the color space might even be  
already provided by standard Java libs. let's see.

matthias