[samoa]

g'day
the new local caching / thumbnailing of anything might be great for some stuff, but definitely is not usable for just images.
say i have 30000 images (~40Gb) which are being mostly shown via slideshow / screensaver.
there's absolutely no need to thumbnail them all. Especially in a default size of 1280x720..
so far, for about half of them, it has taken 500% cpu on i7 machine for 3 days, and about 4Gb of storage. and it keeps going..

it would be very useful if thumbnailing is switchable on/off, be it globally or per media-kind or per source/dir.

ciao

[samoa]

another thing, seems images are shown from thumnail cache if there.
a generic xbmc code in xbmc/...CImageLoader:oWork() says:
.....// not in our texture cache, so try and load directly and then cache the result

which means it does not matter how Megapixel the images are and how big the screen is, it will only show whatever cheap thumbnail it has cached, say 1280x720 (or worse).
this is not good at all - i want to see my images as well as possible.

should i make an issue out of this and where to post it?