XnView MP and Linux ARM

[fpabernard]

Hello,

Can we dream of an ARM version of XnView MP, for example with Arch Linux via the Arch User Repository (AUR) https://aur.archlinux.org/index.php?setlang=fr ?

I use XnView and XnViewMP at home on Windows, but having a small ARM device (CuBox-i http://www.solid-run.com/products/cubox ... -computer/) with ArchLinux, for Internet browsing, mail, small office work, media player, Live TV, it would be nice if I could use it to check JPEG and RAW images with XnView.

Best regards

Frédéric Bernard

[m.Th.]

Nice idea.

However, developing on ARM nowadays myself, I'm quite reserved that this is feasible. See, ARM is important only in 'touch' space. XnView MP's GUI is too much optimized for mouse + keyboard.

[fpabernard]

When you look at things like that : http://www.solid-run.com/products/cubox ... fications/, you can have much RAM, CPU power, storage, and you can use mouse & keyboard ...

It can replace on some situations a PC, but it is ARM-powered. We can have LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, VLC, gimp, a printer, running on Debian or ArchLinux, but not XnViewMP. Frustrating ...

[m.Th.]

When you look at things like that : http://www.solid-run.com/products/cubox ... fications/, you can have much RAM, CPU power, storage, and you can use mouse & keyboard ...

It can replace on some situations a PC, but it is ARM-powered. We can have LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, VLC, gimp, a printer, running on Debian or ArchLinux, but not XnViewMP. Frustrating ...

Hmmm.... I don't know. If the programs you mention can be run there then perhaps Pierre can give it a shot. But, again, I'm quite reserved because the market share is very very small.

[fpabernard]

Hmmm.... I don't know. If the programs you mention can be run there then perhaps Pierre can give it a shot. But, again, I'm quite reserved because the market share is very very small.

Yes they can, I have one and installed all these, and even Live HD TV (so the GPU is fast enough !). I saw that many photo programs, like rawtherapee, gimp or shotwell are available as ARM packages on Archlinux http://archlinuxarm.org/packages so why not XnViewMP as it a far better program for managing pictures !

[furmanda]

The problem with ARM multimedia software is that ARMv7/ARMv8 have their own and incompatible set of SIMD extensions (Neon instead of MMX/SSE/AVX). Due to that, even if a software compiles for ARM without much trouble, the decoders might be quite slow, because the libraries likely won't have the needed SIMD assembly optimizations. Some projects like FFmpeg optimise some of their code for ARM, but not all do that.