XnView Software

Thank you for the answer, now I can stop wondering whether I'm doing something wrongly!

Then I'll have to use some other software for viewing the files while on Linux for now. Thanks again for all your work!

Hello everyone!

Searched the forums, but so far I only found the same question in some comments with no answer.

On Linux, can XnView MP support HEVC compressed photos (be it via plugins or other libraries), especially the thumbnail generation?

I found a thread on Reddit that talked about having ...

Can confirm on a small-ish (~130GB) subset of files, on which the problem occured in 98.0, that no crash is happening in 98.1 anymore!
I have some other sets that let to a crash in 98.0 as well that I'll test soon; I'm confident that the issue is resolved, but if the other sets make problems I'll ...

May I suggest something like:

'This picture can only be opened as rgb with 8 bits per component, the original file will only be altered if the image is resaved with the same filename.'

Sounds good to me, it is more concise than my variant!
Had I read that instead I wouldn't have felt the need ...

Hello!

Just had a similar experience like gfnov, wondering whether something of my images is being altered.

Something like
"This picture has a higher bit depth than 8 bits per component but can only be displayed (and edited) with 8bpc in XnView at the moment. Overwriting or saving a copy will ...

Wow, thanks a lot for your reply, great to hear theres a fix en route!

I naturally searched for my problem first, using the terms "thumbnail" and "crash". I assumed the search to be AND and it told me 'ignored: thumbnail' after searching, so I thought no topic with both keywoards existed. Even ...

Hello!

When creating the thumbnails for certain files, either by opening the folder or by adding it in Settings->Browser->Catalog, XnView crashes.

I narrowed the files down to some, heres the MediaInfo of two of them:


Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile ...