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Kolenka · 03-02-2010, 02:39 AM

A quick note on CBR support:

This is probably going to be a no-go. There are two libraries available for accessing RAR files. Neither one is suitable for use in a plugin like this because either the license conflicts, and/or because it can't support very important optimizations in the plugin and will result in poor performance. I doubt anyone would use CBRs if it takes 15 seconds to load a page.

I've also been looking the remaining bottleneck in performance (progressive JPEGs), and I'm not optimistic about the results. There is some performance problem in GTK+ or libjpeg, and the answer seems to be: don't use progressive JPEGs.

Beyond that, I'm pretty happy with the performance. The next step is probably to support metadata from apps like ComicBookLover, after digging in a bit.

03-02-2010, 02:39 AM	#10
Kolenka <Insert Wit Here> Posts: 1,017 Karma: 1275899 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Puget Sound Device: Kindle Oasis, Kobo Forma	A quick note on CBR support: This is probably going to be a no-go. There are two libraries available for accessing RAR files. Neither one is suitable for use in a plugin like this because either the license conflicts, and/or because it can't support very important optimizations in the plugin and will result in poor performance. I doubt anyone would use CBRs if it takes 15 seconds to load a page. I've also been looking the remaining bottleneck in performance (progressive JPEGs), and I'm not optimistic about the results. There is some performance problem in GTK+ or libjpeg, and the answer seems to be: don't use progressive JPEGs. Beyond that, I'm pretty happy with the performance. The next step is probably to support metadata from apps like ComicBookLover, after digging in a bit. Last edited by Kolenka; 03-02-2010 at 02:57 AM.