Thread 106543213

whats /g/ recommend?

>>106543213 (OP)
qrd why windows image viewer (a basic component of a graphical system) is so bad?
how do you fuck up something so simple you didn't even write the decoding libraries or anything

qview. no bullshit, just lets you look at the fucking image. make sure to install the packages to view webp garbage. this shit is basically the mpv of the image world

sudo apt install qt5-image-formats-plugins

>>106543213 (OP)
Irfanview on Windows, feh or nsxiv on Linux.

jpegview

>>106543257
on win 11 sometimes (randomly) doesnt let you use arrows to move left or right to next images... thats it... i hate it

>>106543257
>>106543311
I wonder how they fucked it up so much when the image viewer for windows xp was perfect.

Also, on windows try honeyview.

>>106543323
whats worse is windows removed the ability to sort FOLDERS by size... something windows XP did no problem... i dont get it

>>106543213 (OP)
>toolbars
>irrelevant time-wasting panels
>metadata info bleeding into your image-viewing experience
Definitely not that. An image viewer ought to be as unbusy as possible. You open an image, you look at it, and then you close it. Nothing else.

>>106543409
this or qview?

>>106543409
you can just remove all the panels in nomacs and it'll look exactly like that

qimgv

>>106543213 (OP)
nomacs is great, i also love nsxiv. feh is ok but no gif support which is a shame.

>>106543213 (OP)
nsxiv

>>106543213 (OP)
>whats /g/ recommend?
https://github.com/sylikc/jpegview

Windows: Faststone

Linux: Xnview

>>106543494
Irafanview is my fav for quick, lightweight edits in Windows though, or Pinta on Linux.

>>106543511
>Pinta
Actually no it's not, I'm being retarded. I stopepd using it and just use Xnview for everything, always.

>>106543426
>>106543442
qview is best

>>106543409
post that smug pic in middle i wanna save it

>>106543442
This

>>106543537
There

>>106543586
thank you anon <3

>>106543213 (OP)
Irfanview and winrar since 30 years.

>>106543311
>people bitch about MUH TELEMETRY on win11
real reason i hate w11 are:
>volume mixer is 3 clicks instead of 1 like on win7
>glitches in windows image viewer like unable to scroll images
>wifi and volume linked together for no reason
>start menu changes
>ads(i removed them)

jpegview is really good, but you can't draw stuff like boxes or arrows which is sometimes needed.

>>106543213 (OP)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageMagick

For viewing archives:
https://www.nyam.pe.kr/dev/imagine/

for just image viewing the standard photo viewer in windows suffices, especially since it will keep in mind whatever folder sort order you have set.

The best image viewer ever was ACDSee 2.4 but unfortunately it is very broken today, gifs crash it nearly instantly and it has no unicode support or archive reading. Sucks because it blows everything out of the water speed wise.

>>106543281
A gorillion packages will be downloaded and installed, do you want to shit up your system because the imbeciles couldn't make a static binary Y/N?

>>106543689
now this is autism

I just press spacebar within Finder when I select an image and I view the image immediately with Finder. Pressing spacebar again closes it.

https://sr.ht/~exec64/imv/
this is all i need

>>106543213 (OP)
Can someone explain to me why you would even remotely in any situation need a third party image viewer?

>>106543409
>windows user hates computers
checks out

>>106543769
because the ones that come with windows and macos send thumbnails and hashes to the appropriate entities

>>106543789
Is there a reason besides something that you have zero evidence for and doesn't actually happen and thus isn't the actual reason anyone chooses a third party image viewer

feh

>>106543789
show proof of that happening with macos
I use Apple One 2tb for my photo backups anyway

>>106543586
Saved.

THE BEST

Fastone
Irfancucks deserve the rope

Geeqie
https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie

GPicView
it just werks and doesn't try to shoehorn in functionality i don't need

>>106543769
Being unique and separated from the rest of the masses is good enough reason for me.

>>106544055
]Apple publicly says they scan your images you save i>>106544641
Ok

>>106543213 (OP)
I use Microsoft Photos on Windows 11, works fine, since I only care for the basic functionality of using it as a gallery and opening images, and it supports pretty much all the formats and just werks. I did try some foss alternatives, but none made me happy, ImageGlass feels bloated and it also had that very unfortunate stinky incident with them shipping spyware once, most of the big ones like XnView or IrfanView are proprietary and ugly as sin despite being super powerful and performant, Nomacs just feels like it doesn't belong on windows, it's like a bloated KDE program or something, and I don't like the way it always updates on first boot, I think JPEGView is really annoying with how it expects all configuration changes to be done through a manual ini file, the best third party one I found is qView, it's really simple and just werksy, so if I'm ever using LTSC again I'll probably just qView it up.

>>106543654
based

>>106544904
stopped reading at "Microsoft"
>>106544859
An automated system scans the thumbnails to make sure they don't match with CSAM. Maybe don't o

>>106543213 (OP)
mspaint

>>106545584
*Maybe don't do illegal shit?

>>106543213 (OP)
jpegview for windows
qimgv for linux

>>106545584
Why do you think anybody cares about the opinion of a pedophile? You'll get put in a jail with a bunch of hung roided niggers who'll sissify you soon anyway once AI becomes sophisticated enough and starts scanning everything on your computer

>>106543213 (OP)
cpview

>>106543304
https://github.com/sylikc/jpegview
Too bad its been abandoned. It's so close to being almost perfect. Out of all the numerous choices, it's the only one I like.

>>106543619
Windows 11 is the buggiest, most shoddy half-assed WIndows since the initial 95 release. Having to use it is such a punishment.

>>106545707
What do you think it still needs?

>>106543597
>Irfanview
I use irfan for so long that I actually had issue with it, it never supported interlaced jpeg decoding. Thing was when you had 386/486 decoding big images like in 640x480 jpeg would actually take time and you had to wait till image was completely decoded while with some other viewers image was decoded in passes with each pass being at higher quality so you got preview much faster than with irfan.
Also had amiga at that time, 640x400 jpeg would take like 20 minutes to decode on amiga 2000.

>>106543213 (OP)
Default win11 viewer. Opens files in order according to folder sorting method. It even opens videos but not webms.

>>106543213 (OP)
i'll take a linux video player
truly border-less, always on top, each file opens in new window, next and previous frame jump, fading control bar, option for >100% volume, with loop and adjustable speed capabilities

>>106543281
I use mpv for images as well as video/audio

>>106543409
Opening images in window is super gaaay.

>>106543257
literally fucking everything about windows is bad.

>>106543213 (OP)
Nothing I've tried beats XnViews's color handling. MPV tries to interpret the profile at least but not as accurately IMO and it silently fails to open invalid files. Everything else is like they're not even trying in this regard.

There's also: loupe, nsxiv and swayimg; in increasing IQ requirement and rewards. I recommend these instead if you don't care about ICC profiles.

>>106543469
+1 This is very fast, light, and capable. You can even rice it simply using .Xresources.
Nsxiv.window.background: #1d1c1a
Nsxiv.window.foreground: #4ca6e6

>>106543442
This. I think it embeds mpv, so it can play videos.

>>106543213 (OP)
qview is nice, no toolbars or unnecessary buttons. But it's based on qt so it will install a lot of qt dependencies.
>>106543469
I used nsxiv once, it was okay but never bothered to tweak it. If it had the same keyboard shortcuts and behaviour as qview I'd use it.

>>106543213 (OP)
XnView Classic for loose files but here's a tip: SumatraPDF can open archives and CBZ/R files with images and view the contents in facing pages view, which is great for comics and book scans, and you can even drag a folder with images onto it and it will display the images the same way.

>>106545707
It supports several newer image codecs with zero penetration, it will be at least 15 years before it fails to open something.

>>106543619
>>volume mixer is 3 clicks instead of 1 like on win7
it's 2 clicks
>>glitches in windows image viewer like unable to scroll images
works on my machine
>>wifi and volume linked together for no reason
Quick Settings is fine
>>start menu changes
This is valid
>>ads(i removed them)
same

>>106543281
>qview
first, downloaded latest win64.zip and the homo who maintains the repo inepty forgot to purge all his macosx effluvia
B) there doesn't seem to be a way to use the scroll button to nav files, so fuck this garbage

>>106543323
>honeyview
you think ur helping but it's the opposite

>>106547335
nomacs also shit the bed

>>106543213 (OP)
Windows: Irfan View
Linux: the DE's default, whatever it is
MacOS: your browser

>>106543213 (OP)
xv

Not sure why it seems to have fallen out of favor tho

>>106546008
To not be slow with large directories.

photoqt. Works great, dev is very active and has promptly dealt with every issue I've reported.

my search for a proper image viewer never stops on linux...

my requirements:
1. view images
2. watch videos
3. have clickable buttons for navigating to next file
4. use the sorting of the folder that the files are in. second best if it at least lets me set the sorting in the settings of the viewer to last modified (newest/oldest) or last created (newest/oldest)
5. setting volume via mousewheel
5.1 without the mouse having to hover over the volume bar

only ones that i've found that do most of these are gwenview and xnview, but

gwenview doesn't have 5.1. it also always freezes a few seconds EVERY time you open it depending on folder size, so that's out.

xnview also doesn't have 5.1. it also crashes when playing videos in wayland

vlc is out because in order to do 4. you have to mark all files before opening, which is a hassle. i wanna be able to just click on a random image/video in my folder and start browsing by clicking next.


anyone know of any that fit all my requirements?

>>106550606
>photoqt
looks ugly as fuck

>>106550622
>3. have clickable buttons for navigating to next file
not 1 in this thread has this

faststone is the only one that properly works with color management. irfanview sucks so bad.

>>106550622
you are baiting people to say mpv...
mpv

feh op/is/faggot
let me guess, you need more?

>>106550709
F uck
E very
H omo
That doesnt use it

that is not mirage, the best image viewer

>>106550622
VLC

>>106550689
just tried it. it doesn't do images and behaves the same for 4. as vlc (need to select all videos before opening. unsuable in a folder full of images and videos)

>>106550748
read it again. second to last paragraph

>>106550767
>it doesn't do images and behaves the same for 4
not gonna spoofeed you any more than this
autocreate-playlist=same

Is there an AVX512 accelerated image viewer

>>106550817
lmao what are you trying to open

>>106550886
Images, but really fast

>>106543469
>using a tranny fork
Embarassing

sxiv
>inb4 muh not maintained
a perfection needs no updates

What's the closest image viewer like irfan view for linux?

Honeyview.

>>106550907
>sxiv
tis a good one but overkill (feh)
very useful for autistic people and categorization

>>106550794
thanks, but no thanks.
if it has the functionality, but i have to download extra scripts for it or set up stuff in the terminal, then i can't be fucked.


the fucking windows 10 standard image viewer covers all my requirements. how is there not one program on linux that is at least as good as that

fuck, is there maybe a portable version of the windows 10 image viewer? maybe it'll run with protron...

>>106547335
qimgv also failed

>>106551075
There's no terminal setting anything with mpv, what can't be achieved through the graphical menus you do on a config file (like adding autocreate-playlist=same so that it does the obvious on startup). Adding scripts is merely dropping the lua file in the scripts folder and maybe editing a line or two if needed. It all sounds more complicated than it is.

>>106551262
Forget it anon. Retards gonna retard.

>>106543494
Faststone is great and have used it for years, but I haven't tried qview or nomacs that people here seem to love

>>106547335
I might try this XnView MP thing and hope it's worth the trouble.

>>106551412
what trouble? out of those 6 viewers on the screenshots it's one of the easiest to use

>>106551450
the trouble of installing it from aur when the PKGBUILD has shit like
# This is massive hack to work around an incompatibility with the system Qt5
# libraries.
inside.
Maybe I should go for the non system libs version

idk why you'd need more than what nsxiv does

>>106547335
here's where the line gets blurry
mpv vs XnView MP 1/2

>>106547335
mpv vs XnView MP 2/2

>>106551498
>>106551503
You just can't beat mpv, man.

>>106550978
This, I require being able to drag an image from whatever part of it I decide to drag it from WITHOUT having to press Ctrl or any key for that matter, and only Honeyview lets me do that.

>107 posts
>0 mentions of Viewnior

I just saw the best image viewer ever made was archived. Who's going to step up and polish this into the mpv of pictures?
https://github.com/hellosiyan/Viewnior

>>106543409
your webm has toolbars and time wasting panels in it

>>106551497
xnviewmp 1.9.3-1 [+320 ~3.75] it installs any issue on my end.

>>106551510
I like the deeper colors on XnView. Also mpv's tone is a touch cooler to my eyes which makes the dirt seem a little off but honestly the difference is so small it's borderline cherrypicking from my part at this point.

>>106551473
xnviewmp 1.9.3-1 [+320 ~3.75] installs without any issue on my end.

>>106551510
I like the deeper colors on XnView. Also mpv's tone is a touch cooler to my eyes which makes the dirt seem a little off but honestly the difference is so small it's borderline cherrypicking from my part at this point.

>>106551562
shh shut up and Leave it alone it works perfect as is no reason for others to fuck it up.
That being said I use it purely because it's the first image viewer that accepted mouse4/mouse5 for moving through images.

>>106543586
this has embedded cp btw

>>106551628
You could always use the archived version and it does just work, but there are a number of pull requests and bugs, so I'm sure there are some legitimate fixes out there.
2bh, I'd like an option for dynamic viewing that changes between landscape and portrait when cycling through pictures instead of constraining them in one direction.

>>106543213 (OP)
nomacs, of course
>>106543409
nomacs can be completely frameless

>>106544387
>logo is a ran-over rat
soul

Which of these recommendations have full featured slideshow functionality (randomize order, adjust display interval).

>>106547335
>MPV [...] silently fails to open invalid files
try this:
mp.add_hook("on_load_fail", 5, function()
mp.osd_message("Failed to load file " .. mp.get_property("stream-open-filename"))
mp.set_property("stream-open-filename", "mediaoffline.png")
mp.set_property("file-local-options/image-display-duration", "inf")
end)

Substitute "mediaoffline.png" with a path to a placeholder image that will be shown for broken files.