Re: [emms-help] Dynamic cover thumbnail caching

[Yoni Rabkin]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>>                                (setq err (call-process "convert" nil '(t t) 
>>> nil
>>>                                                        "-resize" (format 
>>> "%sx%s" size-value size-value)
>>>                                                        cover
>>>                                                        cache-dest-file)))))
>>
>> If emacs has been compiled with imagemagick support, it should have some
>> of these features built-in. I think that Emacs does its own image
>> caching as well. Is is possible to leverage that instead of making an
>> external call?
>
> That was one of my main concerns for optimization.  If you look at my
> code, you'll see that I'm using the ImageMagick library
>
>       (image-size (create-image c) t)
>
> The library does not seem to provide any feature for _resizing_ an
> image.
>
> I hope you can prove me wrong.

I assumed it did without checking; I assumed wrong.

Perhaps a patch to src/image.c and lisp/image.el is the future as well.


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