[Digikam-users] Downloading JPEG is amazingly slow

[Leonardo Giordani]

Pay attention to "on-the-fly" JPEG conversion to PNG, you find it in
the download window (where all the thumbnails of your camera images
are shown), in the last tab on the right (if I remember correctly).

PNG is not lossy, so converting a JPEG to PNG enables you to edit it
without losing quality every time you save it. Obviously, conversion
is not cheap. If you do not plan to edit your images or are simply
happy with plain JPEG, turn off this option and download will speed
up.

Bye

Leo

2010/3/18 Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr>:
> On Thursday 18 March 2010 08:12:33 Gabriel Kerneis wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:13:44AM +0100, Gabriel Kerneis wrote:
>> > I shoot in RAW+JPEG and observe that downloading my RAW files (which are
>> > bigger) is very fast, whereas Digikam seems to stall on every JPEG file,
>> > performing whatever operation which makes it much slower.
>> > [...]
>> Is there at least someone here facing the same behaviour, or is this
>> something specific to my config?  Could this be related with the fact
>> that I asked digikam to record its metadata in JPEG files, but not in
>> RAW files (because of the "experimental" status)?
>>
>> Regards,
>
> Well, I use the same options wrt. metadata, and for me, the raw files are
> slower to transfer than jpg (and 3x as big at least, from sony A330).
>
> On the other hand, when transferring photos _into_ digikam, are the files
> modified by digikam (i.e. is digikam recording any metadata during the
> transfer)? I always thought that option about writing metadata to raw files
> concerned tags, captions etc. added later on in digikam.
>
> Regards,
>
> Remco
>
>
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