Bug 157619

Summary: Let digikam use preview images from raw files for more speed
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Johannes Wienke <languitar>
Component: Preview-RAWAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 7.0.0

Description Johannes Wienke 2008-02-10 18:39:57 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

Decoding raw images is a process that takes a relatively long time, so browsing through a collection of raw images is slowly. Some cameras (for example Olympus) provide preview images in the raw file that are much easier to read for dcraw. So my suggestion is to use the preview image for initial displaying as long as the real image is being decoded. That would be a great speed up for raw image browsing.
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2008-02-10 18:54:37 UTC
Johannes,

This bug is invalid. digiKam already use emebeded preview from RAW files to speed up browsing. Just use the right mode in album GUI : press F3 (preview).

Best

Gilles Caulier
Comment 2 Johannes Wienke 2008-02-10 19:03:59 UTC
Ok, I didn't know this mode.
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2019-12-23 17:40:39 UTC
Not reproducible with digiKam 7.0.0-beta1.