Need a fast image viewer with slideshow and autorotating

brazzmonkey · 2009-03-15 22:00:55

Hello everyone,

I'm currently recycling an old computer as a digital photo frame. It runs LXDE.
This computer is also used as a server on which we store our photographs.

I need a fast picture viewer, with the following features:
- fast processing
- good rendering
- image autorotation based on EXIF data
- random slideshow with recursive browsing
- GUI is preferred, or I need to find a way to add entries in PCManFM's right-click menu (any guidance is welcome)
- ability to play video would be nice but is not mandatory

I've tried many image viewers available in repos and AUR. So far only 2 of them are suitable in terms of speed: feh and qiv. But they are CLI-based (no big deal if I find a way to customize PCManFM file associations), and they do not support image autorotating based on EXIF (support has recently been implemented in qiv, but Arch's package is outdated).

Please tell me if you know about a program that'd fit my needs.

TIA.

Last edited by brazzmonkey (2009-03-16 08:13:34)

SamC · 2009-03-15 22:18:32

Why not use the AUR to build a recent version of qiv?

brazzmonkey · 2009-03-15 22:26:17

I actually just build the latest version of qiv using the original 2.1-pre12 PKGBUILD (see below). Too bad, "shuffle" feature does not actually work (but "random" does). Please test it and let me know if you encounter such issue (so that I could file abug to qiv devs).

pkgname=qiv
pkgver=2.1
pkgrel=0
pkgdesc="Quick Image Viewer (qiv) is a very small and fast GDK/Imlib image viewer
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('GPL2')
depends=('imlib' 'libxinerama')
makedepends=('pkgconfig')
source=(http://spiegl.de/qiv/download/qiv-$pkgver.tgz)
url="http://spiegl.de/qiv/"
md5sums=('44544d2d10b1acaa493ca430ff9b6eb9')

build() {
        cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-2.1
        make || return 1
        install -D -m 0755 qiv $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/qiv
        install -D -m 0644 qiv.1 $startdir/pkg/usr/man/man1/qiv.1
}

Last edited by brazzmonkey (2009-03-17 21:32:08)

Nezmer · 2009-03-15 22:32:10

I'm not sure If It fits your needs but gpicview(from LXDE) is really lightweight .

brazzmonkey · 2009-03-15 22:37:02

Nezmer wrote:

I'm not sure If It fits your needs but gpicview(from LXDE) is really lightweight .

Unfortunately, no. It's too slow to load and render pictures, plus it doesn't have any slideshow feature.

brazzmonkey · 2009-03-15 22:38:58

brazzmonkey wrote:

I actually just build the latest version of qiv using the original 2.1-pre12 PKGBUILD (see below). Too bad, "shuffle" feature does not actually work. Please test it and let me know if you encounter such issue (so that I could file abug to qiv devs).

Another issur: recursive browsing cannot be disabled...

Weird...

Last edited by brazzmonkey (2009-03-15 22:42:24)

HashBox · 2009-03-15 23:12:57

I'm not sure if this will meet your needs but I usually use Geeqie for image viewing, and it appears to work quite well. Otherwise I'd probably second feh.

brazzmonkey · 2009-03-16 08:11:12

I didn't know about geeqie, I'll give it a try, thanks.
feh is nice but it doesn't rotate photos using EXIF metadata. And I very much need this feature.

So far, only qiv is very close to meeting my expectations.

Rasi · 2009-03-16 09:09:37

There simply is no better image viewer than gthumb for linux i think.
Its definately heavier than the others mentioned here, but stuff like gconf, libgnomeui and hal is installed anyway on like 99% of systems. It doesnt have any more gnome dependencies tho.

And then there is xnview, which is closed source tho. There is an alpha of the qt version in aur which already works quite nice. the repos have the old version, which works great, but its ugly

brazzmonkey · 2009-03-16 09:51:03

I haven't tried gthumb yet, but I will. I fear it will be slow on my machine though, because even lighter image viewers such as XFCE or LXDE ones are too slow on my machine (celeron 600, 224 Mb RAM, average image is 3.5 Mb).

I already tried xnview, both legacy and alpha. The former doesn't seem to autorotate (and hasn't been updated for years), the latter is slow (and counter intuitive - but that's no big deal).

Inxsible · 2009-03-16 16:02:44

Mirage?
Ristretto? -- or have you already tried those?

although I am not sure if they have rotating capabilities

brazzmonkey · 2009-03-16 16:13:47

Inxsible wrote:

Mirage?
Ristretto? -- or have you already tried those?
although I am not sure if they have rotating capabilities

Yup. Unfortunately, they are too slow...

ristretto does support autorotate, I don't remember for mirage, but I think it doesn't.

Inxsible · 2009-03-16 16:17:31

brazzmonkey wrote:

Yup. Unfortunately, they are too slow...
ristretto does support autorotate, I don't remember for mirage, but I think it doesn't.

I would be interested in your search as well, because I currently use mirage and feh to set my wallpapers...but I am looking for something lighter than mirage, but one which can do rotation as well, so I dont have to connect my HDD to the windows machine, just to set some pictures right.

and no, I am not interested in installing something with huge gnome/kde/xfce dependencies.

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R00KIE · 2009-03-16 16:25:20

Maybe GQview but I'm not sure if it doest all of what you want.
I find gqview faster than mirage but I guess there might be faster viewers out there.

Inxsible · 2009-03-16 16:27:28

R00KIE wrote:

Maybe GQview but I'm not sure if it doest all of what you want.
I find gqview faster than mirage but I guess there might be faster viewers out there.

Hmm,... I might have to try out gqview. What are the dependencies, do you know?

brazzmonkey · 2009-03-16 16:28:46

So far, I haven't found any better than qiv (latest, check my PKGBUILD above). It can be used for desktop backgrounds when not in fullscreen mode.

Inxsible · 2009-03-16 16:34:54

brazzmonkey wrote:

So far, I haven't found any better than qiv (latest, check my PKGBUILD above). It can be used for desktop backgrounds when not in fullscreen mode.

I didn't find it in AUR. Why don't you put it in? or is it named different?

rson451 · 2009-03-16 16:43:18

Inxsible wrote:

I would be interested in your search as well, because I currently use mirage and feh to set my wallpapers...but I am looking for something lighter than mirage, but one which can do rotation as well, so I dont have to connect my HDD to the windows machine, just to set some pictures right.

Offtopic, but did you know feh has a right click menu? Rotation is in this menu.

Inxsible · 2009-03-16 16:49:50

rson451 wrote:

Inxsible wrote:
I would be interested in your search as well, because I currently use mirage and feh to set my wallpapers...but I am looking for something lighter than mirage, but one which can do rotation as well, so I dont have to connect my HDD to the windows machine, just to set some pictures right.
Offtopic, but did you know feh has a right click menu? Rotation is in this menu.

Oh yes, I do know the right click. but I guess I never looked hard enough for the rotation as I do it very infrequently. Thanks for the tip.

How would I set feh, so that when I double click a image file, feh would start up and show that image? If I can get that (and I haven't tried that yet), I guess I can get rid of mirage then.

brazzmonkey · 2009-03-16 16:52:35

Inxsible wrote:

brazzmonkey wrote:
So far, I haven't found any better than qiv (latest, check my PKGBUILD above). It can be used for desktop backgrounds when not in fullscreen mode.
I didn't find it in AUR. Why don't you put it in? or is it named different?

qiv is in official repo: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=qiv
I don't put it in AUR because I recently flagged the package out-of-date so I expect paul to update it soon.

@R00KIE: GQview = too slow, like many others...

eDio · 2009-03-16 17:00:36

Mirage is even slower than geeqie or gqview. By the way, usefull thread, I have to try that qiv

P.S. but I think, there is no as good viewers as Imagine for windows. Really miss this program.

rson451 · 2009-03-16 17:01:13

Inxsible wrote:

rson451 wrote:
Inxsible wrote:
I would be interested in your search as well, because I currently use mirage and feh to set my wallpapers...but I am looking for something lighter than mirage, but one which can do rotation as well, so I dont have to connect my HDD to the windows machine, just to set some pictures right.
Offtopic, but did you know feh has a right click menu? Rotation is in this menu.
Oh yes, I do know the right click. but I guess I never looked hard enough for the rotation as I do it very infrequently. Thanks for the tip.
How would I set feh, so that when I double click a image file, feh would start up and show that image? If I can get that (and I haven't tried that yet), I guess I can get rid of mirage then.

That's not an feh config, that's a config for whatever file manager you are using. I'm not sure of the options you'd need to pass feh because I always run it on the command line.

Inxsible · 2009-03-16 17:03:18

rson451 wrote:

That's not an feh config, that's a config for whatever file manager you are using. I'm not sure of the options you'd need to pass feh because I always run it on the command line.

I use PCManFM. I will look into it later tonight. I guess it should be as simple as assigning feh as the default app for image files like png, jpg, gif and svg

brazzmonkey · 2009-03-16 17:04:23

rson451 wrote:

That's not an feh config, that's a config for whatever file manager you are using. I'm not sure of the options you'd need to pass feh because I always run it on the command line.

Hence his interest in this thread.

*edit* he got me on that one...

Last edited by brazzmonkey (2009-03-16 17:07:48)

Rip-Rip · 2009-03-16 18:25:34

What about gliv?

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