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forum_emoticons.html	[quote=antp,29270]Yesterday evening, instead of going to bed at a normal time, I took two hours to improve the picture upload of imcdb :D (and so this morning I am tired :tinostar: ) Here is what's new: - maximum width increased to 960 pixels - maximum height decreased to 498 pixels Why decrease the maximum height? Heights above 500 pixels were used only for 4:3 images, and these are most of the time with a lower quality due to age of movies or source of movie (tv). So reducing these to 662x498 does not lose details. Originally the images were limited like that, I am not sure of why we increased that at a point. And about the increased width, please note that this is [b]only for HD pictures[/b], so movies coming from HD trailers, blu-ray, mkv/h264, etc. Please do not upload DVD pictures higher than 720 pixels wide, as that is the original picture size on the disc. I know that some programs make the captures in higher sizes, but they just enlarge the original picture actually. Another change: the maximum picture size. It is not limited to 80 KB anymore. It is calculated according to picture width and height. There is no reason why a tiny 320x200 picture would be allowed to weight 60 KB where a HD picture should be so much limited. Now the maximum size is computed as such: width x height x 0.25 = size in bytes. If you compress pictures to 80% quality it should stay much below these limits. I checked with few of G-MANN's pictures (as he said he compressed a little less his pictures), they seem to still stay under the limit, so I guess it won't be a problem for anyone. And the most useful feature: automatic recompress/resize. This is of course optional. It will be especially useful for processing contributions (next step is letting users uploading contributions themselves, to be validated by admins later). On the upload page there is a "resize/recompress" checkbox. If you enable it, the picture will be resaved to JPEG at 80% quality. This allows to easily process PNG pictures as well as the too-big pictures. In addition of that, there are also three fields allowing to change pictures dimensions. It can be used to resize them if they are too big, or to fix ratio. Resize/compression options are remembered in the session. this means that if you upload multiple pictures for a movie, it will keep the options, but these options will vanish when you close all browser windows or if you do not visit a page of the site for few minutes (same as the login if you did not enable the "auto login" option). As it is possible to paste a picture URL instead of browsing for a file, this can also be used to easily fix ratio of pictures already be uploaded. Note that this has to be used only when "we" do not have the original picture: since it implies a recompression of the picture, there is always a small quality loss.[/quote]
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dsl

Tried all them. Left the Opera page alone for over an hour, but now it's suddenly there as intended without me doing anything.

It's almost as if Opera has suddenly become incredibly slow at allowing the change to be made, or a naughty pixie in the system only makes the change when I'm not looking. Maybe same delay occured with the P405 pic change yesterday .....

antp

I guess you tried the various refresh method, i.e. F5 / Ctrl+F5 / Ctrl+R / clicking on the refresh icon...
Maybe they use some additional caching method

dsl

I use Opera, which is still showing the old P405 picture (night view of front). But have just opened the page in Mozilla and it shows the updated picture as I want it to appear (rear view with legible badge).

Weird ....

antp

Someone else recently had problems refreshing the pics; do you also use Chrome?
Currently for these cars I see as main pic the same as the last one in comments. Is it the old or the new pic?

dsl

Maybe related or not, but having slight problems replacing main pictures in Between The Lines as I find better captures from later eps. Doing everything I normally do, and all stages appear to work through normally except that the older picture stays stubbornly in place. First go was for the Saab - several attempts failed. Tried both direct upload and indirect (posting it as a comment picture, which was accepted without problem, and then copying that reference into main upload page). Also tried dropping an unrelated picture in instead (used the series title picture as a test), which eventually showed. Then retried the Saab picture I wanted, which gave the odd result of showing in the edit function picture to drop the box onto and on the main series page, but not on the actual page. But when I switched on again today, the picture I wanted was presented, so problem had resolved itself. (I'd also tried making a couple of dummy pages and switching pictures around, and they worked fine).

Now today I'm trying to replace main on the police 405 - same problem again - can't get rid of the old picture.

Any ideas??

antp

Quote From: atom

I recently celebrated my 100th duplicate! http://pics.imcdb.org/1987/title1.100.jpg :grin:

Some had thousands :grin:

("untitled" or "1")
That's when I added a check on the file size in addition of comparing the contents: if the site had to check the contents of 1000 files with the same name to see if it already exists, it takes time. Now it compares size, if the file has the same size only then it compares the contents.

rjluna2

Thanks for the information, Antoine :smile:

I would probably wanted to practice to play it safe for now :wink:

atom

I recently celebrated my 100th duplicate! http://pics.imcdb.org/1987/title1.100.jpg :grin:

antp

indeed, if the name already exists in the user's folder it checks the contents of the file:
- exact same content? then it returns the same link as the old one, preventing having duplicates
- another file with same name? a number is appended to the name of the new file, to avoid mixing the new and the old

Files are never overwritten.
They are deleted if not used in a comment anywhere on the site ; so what is dangerous is keep for later in a text file a link to a pic that you uploaded but did not use already.
In such case the pic can be deleted (i run the cleaning function once every few months), and another pic could have re-used the name afterwards

Sandie

It does.