The slide show is so slow it is unusable.

Bernard_J_L

Joined: 2008-06-13
Posts: 9
Posted: Wed, 2009-10-28 20:42

The slide show is so slow that it is unusable.

We think the issue is that we use Gallery as our storage and upload the full size large images. That way we can download the originals for other users and machines. That then makes the slide show program download these huge files only to show them at a lower resolution.

It seems in the previous version we had to modify something to tell the slide show to get a smaller version of the images so it would run at a nice rate.

Is there something like that with this version of Gallery. Or is there a way for the slide show to request smaller images thereby reduce the overhead of down loading these multi-megabyte files?

Thanks for the help.
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nivekiam
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Joined: 2002-12-10
Posts: 10957
Posted: Wed, 2009-10-28 20:59

The slideshow loads the largest images available to the user. If they have permission to view the Full Version, that's what it loads. Either don't load such high res images or remove the permission to view the Full Version or wait until someone either creates a new slideshow module or enhances this one to select an option to use the resized versions.
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nivekiam
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Posted: Wed, 2009-10-28 21:44

I was curious and decided to dig around. This actually won't be hard (I think) to override in your theme.

Copy /modules/rss/views/feed.mrss.php into /themes/YourTheme/views/ where YourTheme is the name of the theme you're using, probably wind

Find this block of code and remove everything in bold

          <? if (access::can("view_full", $child)): ?>
            <media:content url="<?= $child->file_url(true) ?>"
                           fileSize="<?= @filesize($child->file_path()) ?>"
                           type="<?= $child->mime_type ?>"
                           height="<?= $child->height ?>"
                           width="<?= $child->width ?>"
                           />
          <? endif ?>
        <? else: ?>
          <media:content url="<?= $child->file_url(true) ?>"
                         fileSize="<?= @filesize($child->file_path()) ?>"
                         height="<?= $child->height ?>"
                         width="<?= $child->width ?>"
                         type="<?= $child->mime_type ?>"
                         />
        <? endif ?>

Should look like this when done:

          <media:content url="<?= $child->file_url(true) ?>"
                         fileSize="<?= @filesize($child->file_path()) ?>"
                         height="<?= $child->height ?>"
                         width="<?= $child->width ?>"
                         type="<?= $child->mime_type ?>"
                         />

I think that'll do it. Appeared to work for me.
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