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Re: IrfanView

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Post by bdhcuidbebe »

necubi wrote: post #72
AlienRobot wrote: post #48

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>I used to use it back on Windows 95 because it was a faster way to view JPEGs than opening Internet Explorer. That's an amazing sentence. We should frame it and put it in a museum. Actually someone should make a book filled just with quotes like this, call it "Life Before the Gigahertz" or something.

I see so many comments these days bemoaning how slow modern software has gotten, but no one seems to remember/have been alive for the time when just rendering an image would take multiple seconds. Just goes to show that our expectations scale with the available technology.

i remember watching images download and how relevant progressive rendering was. blurry shapes!

Re: IrfanView

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Post by Ringz »

tauio111 wrote: post #227
anjel wrote: post #214

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The are indeed many clipboard managers across all platforms, but none have the perfect UI of ditto. Its ditto's UI that needs to be copied everywhere else.

Haven't used Ditto before but I use CopyQ on Linux, at least according to the screenshots of Ditto it appears that CopyQ has been influenced by it

Maccy on MacOS is perfect: https://maccy.app/

Re: IrfanView

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Post by Leftium »

techknight wrote: post #4

In Windows it's still faster than anything else if you've copied an image to clipboard to open irfanview -> paste -> save, or to do a quick crop or whatever.

Directory Opus is a little faster:

CTRL-P pastes anything (image, text; not sure what else) in clipboard to a file in current directory

Re: IrfanView

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Post by dean2432 »

knighthack wrote: post #81

I've been using IrfanView since at least 1997, if not earlier in 1996. I still use IrfanView to this day. It's my Swiss knife for a lot of simple photo editing work (cropping, resizing, padding, text-adding, etc), batch-processing, and for browsing single photos through directories. It's not just good, it's way faster than the bloated alternatives. To top it off, IrfanView works beautifully on my Linux via Wine, and…

For MacOS, I wonder if it's faster than XNView MP. This was the fastest image viewer I could find for Apple Silicon. Also are you running it through Wine on MacOS or how do you get it working?

Re: IrfanView

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Post by Ringz »

esafak wrote: post #6

Windows was good for shareware developers because people had to buy utilities to like Irfanview to basically replace all the junk the OS shipped with. I eventually drop-kicked the whole OS and now life is good.

It's exactly the same for me. I've been using MacOS for 15 years, and just pressing the spacebar to see an image is a huge relief. I never had to install a simple image viewer on macOS. And if I did, xnView would also work, which I had installed on Windows before.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by nurettin »

nrdvana wrote: post #221
fuzztester wrote: post #180

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Like Delphi, FreePascal and Lazarus, though less often for those three than for IrfanView, and those three get a good number of sneers by modern ignoramuses, each time. The joke is on them, due to the amount of late night and weekend work (unpaid, often) that many of them have to pull, and tamely accept and try to justify, to save their egos and paychecks. "The emperor has no clothes" kind of thing ... And nowadays,…

Delphi kicked ass. Though, looking back, it didn't have hash tables at your fingertips like modern languages. I really can't imagine writing code without hashmaps anymore. Did that ever get added, and in a convenient way that doesn't require declaring a new object each time?

You could use TDictionary. It has been around since 15 years.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by dean2432 »

meristohm wrote: post #2

Back when i used Windows, IrfanView was my go-to image viewer, downloaded along with SumatraPDF via ninite.com. There's something similar in the repositories in Software Manager on Linux Mint, and Pix is fuller-featured, but like Foobar2000 for music, I still miss IrfanView from time to time, probably because of muscle memory and being more impressionable back then. (There's almostt certainly a way to get these Windo…

There's a snap image of Foobar2000 for Linux which works very well :) My #1 music player.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by melasadra »

respondo2134 wrote: post #5

irfanview for images, vlc for videos, foobar for audio - so much better than anything bundled with windows since forever

I am often disappointed by the lack of shortcuts and features in VLC compared to Potplayer.

Just some of the few keyboard shortcuts in Potplayer I use regularly:

"" to shift the subtitle sync by half a secondd "shift-" to adjust the audio sync by half a second "[" and "]" to set an A-B repeat of that awesome scene or soundtrack "D" and "F" to move by a single frame forward and backward there's also shortcut to decrease and increase things like saturation and brightness by 1% or shortcuts for 0.5x, 1x, 2x size.

I have to make do with SMplayer in Linux which is awesome but you have to setup the keyboard shortcuts manually yourself.

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