XnView Software

Is this just completely forgotten, or is it tracked anywhere (classic and/or MP)? Having to drop into Photoshop just to copy or move a selection something anywhere but the top right corner is a little much...

FWIW, xnview integrates both libavif and libheif, and imho libheif is now better at decoding (and encoding) avif than libavif, so there might not be a reason to keep both. One of the nice things about the format being exactly the same, swapping out the compressor and calling it another format is pre...

I have a video that consistently deadlocks the background thread that creates thumbnails; while things in the same folder can still be opened, any attempt to change the folder or close XnView will completely hang the whole program. (This was me earlier this evening.) 0.93.1 x64 on Windows 10 1903.

I searched but I can't find a bug open about this. If XnView Win64 has been open for a while, which seems to be at least a few hours, but sometimes I have it open for weeks at a time, it can't import the clipboard anymore. It just doesn't show lit up as an option in the menu, nothing happens if I pr...

In Windows, video is via DirectShow. Unfortunately, that API generally holds exclusively open any video with an open handle, since it's always required to be ready to render the next frame without crashing. It's probably best to just assume that video won't work like images on Windows, and go from t...

Microsoft does explicitly say that runtime dlls should never be distributed by the app anymore, and the generic Visual Studio runtime installer should be used instead. Otherwise you risk local security problems in the version that was installed (if you can even get it to run; the new registration re...

FWIW, Qt 5.10 and up are supposed to have a ton of fixes for HiDPI display and GPU rendering issues, which might be related. XnView is currently on 5.9; now that there's a 5.12 LTS tagged that might be the way to go.

There's now an open source library for integrators: https://github.com/joedrago/avif Unfortunately, these formats don't support lossless mode, so webp's excellent implemenation will keep being around for that. That's not true in any way, shape, or form. AV1 lossless fits inside AVIF just fine. (As d...

This has worked for me for years. Under Interface->Keyboard there's a "Pressing ESC once quits XnViewMP" option, do you have that set to Never? Either of the other options should do it.

There's no one-click convert, but you can add Export to the command bar with a right-click->Customize on it. That's 2-3 click, at least.

Version 0.89 is pretty old now. {DPI} definitely defaults to 72 (useless as that number is) for me on 0.92.

SQLite cache datas in memory, so the file is not written on each changes That's not supposed to be true, unless you turn journaling off. From what I can tell, XnView does indeed turn journaling off (or keep it in-memory), which is likely a miniscule speedup in exchange for the high probability of a...

When it comes to reading comics, a dedicated reader like Honeyview is better. XnView is still missing 2-page view, which is critical for books for me. I'm pretty sure Honeyview is faster to flip through, too. For every other use, XnView is better, but this comic books isn't something it does well.

I can definitely confirm, I reported that a few years ago. Any collection of downloaded files will inevitably have FAR more categories than can ever be displayed.

Are there still any HEIF problems? The full HEIF spec was posted to http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c066067_ISO_IEC_23008-12_2017.zip recently, so any implementation can be compared against it. FWIW: ImageMagick has an implementation based on libde265 now, another point to t...