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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 562757" data-attributes="member: 18896">Re: Reduce storage size of MovingPictures 'thumbs' folder -- v2This script was never meant as a permanent solution, and themoviedb.org isn't the only movie source for MovingPictures, so building in the auto-resize functionality into the plugin isn't going to be a waste of time.I'm most likely going to keep my script running on my own setup (I got it setup via Task Scheduler), but in a modified version that scans for filesizes. I've noticed some 1920x1080 backgrounds of 1MB in JPEG image format, because they were saved in lossless or almost lossless format. My eyes aren't good enough to notice the difference when I recompress those to 250kB size via lower JPEG quality and some other tweaks.Same with the covers, no thumbnail image (175x261) needs to be more then 20kB on my setup, and the large versions can be maxed to 200kB as well.I'll probably also include MP-TVSeries, because I just checked and 213 fanart images are more then 250kB+ in there as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 562757, member: 18896"] [b]Re: Reduce storage size of MovingPictures 'thumbs' folder -- v2[/b] This script was never meant as a permanent solution, and themoviedb.org isn't the only movie source for MovingPictures, so building in the auto-resize functionality into the plugin isn't going to be a waste of time. I'm most likely going to keep my script running on my own setup (I got it setup via Task Scheduler), but in a modified version that scans for filesizes. I've noticed some 1920x1080 backgrounds of 1MB in JPEG image format, because they were saved in lossless or almost lossless format. My eyes aren't good enough to notice the difference when I recompress those to 250kB size via lower JPEG quality and some other tweaks. Same with the covers, no thumbnail image (175x261) needs to be more then 20kB on my setup, and the large versions can be maxed to 200kB as well. I'll probably also include MP-TVSeries, because I just checked and 213 fanart images are more then 250kB+ in there as well. [/QUOTE]

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