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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 1214678" data-attributes="member: 18896">That is how the tool (nconvert) I used in my script works.Original post @ <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/reduce-storage-size-of-thumbs-folder-movpic-tvseries.75750/" target="_blank">Reduce storage size of 'thumbs' folder (MovPic + TVSeries)</a>Feel free to download the ZIP file, and examine the basic batch file with the command line I use.The way I wrote it was by using size thresholds, and used:[code]nconvert.exe -quiet -out jpeg -ratio -resize 0 1080 -q 85 -rmeta -rflag decr -opthuff &quot;%TMP%\MovPic.png&quot; &gt; nul[/code]To first reduce the image, but then if it failed to become 350kB or less, I would use:[code]nconvert.exe -quiet -out jpeg -ratio -resize 0 1080 -q 70 -rmeta -rflag decr -opthuff &quot;%TMP%\MovPic.png&quot; &gt; nul[/code]If that failed I would try:[code]nconvert.exe -quiet -out jpeg -ratio -resize 0 960 -q 60 -soften 30 -rmeta -rflag decr -opthuff &quot;%TMP%\MovPic.png&quot; &gt; nul[/code]And then finally just accept that result, but add warning to log file if it still failed to get below the configured threshold.The usage of MovPic.png was a file placeholder, because Moving-Pictures was storing filename in database, so I couldn't change extension to JPG but content conversion was not a problem. In the end the script works for any JPG or PNG file, and keeps the original filename, but it was easier to batch script it with fixed temp name for the conversion processing step.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 1214678, member: 18896"] That is how the tool (nconvert) I used in my script works. Original post @ [URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/reduce-storage-size-of-thumbs-folder-movpic-tvseries.75750/"]Reduce storage size of 'thumbs' folder (MovPic + TVSeries)[/URL] Feel free to download the ZIP file, and examine the basic batch file with the command line I use. The way I wrote it was by using size thresholds, and used: [code]nconvert.exe -quiet -out jpeg -ratio -resize 0 1080 -q 85 -rmeta -rflag decr -opthuff "%TMP%\MovPic.png" > nul[/code] To first reduce the image, but then if it failed to become 350kB or less, I would use: [code]nconvert.exe -quiet -out jpeg -ratio -resize 0 1080 -q 70 -rmeta -rflag decr -opthuff "%TMP%\MovPic.png" > nul[/code] If that failed I would try: [code]nconvert.exe -quiet -out jpeg -ratio -resize 0 960 -q 60 -soften 30 -rmeta -rflag decr -opthuff "%TMP%\MovPic.png" > nul[/code] And then finally just accept that result, but add warning to log file if it still failed to get below the configured threshold. The usage of MovPic.png was a file placeholder, because Moving-Pictures was storing filename in database, so I couldn't change extension to JPG but content conversion was not a problem. In the end the script works for any JPG or PNG file, and keeps the original filename, but it was easier to batch script it with fixed temp name for the conversion processing step. [/QUOTE]

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