Re: Speeding up thumbnail generation (like multi threaded). Thoughts please.

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 17:51 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 12:32 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > (Btw, this infrastructure is not specific to the gphoto2:// GVfs
> > backend; any GVfs backend can use it - say, a Flickr backend).
> 
> Bad example, downloading the original file (no seeking in HTTP) just to
> extract the thumbnail would be pretty silly considering that Flickr
> allows direct access to thumbnails (and other sizes) through its API. :)

Got that wrong. David was talking about out-of-band thumbnails (gphoto2
can export that data as an attribute of the file, without downloading
the whole file). So you are in agreement...