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<blockquote data-quote="mortstar" data-source="post: 564256" data-attributes="member: 66294">Obviously I love MovingPictures, but I think saving files as .png is/was a *really bad idea*.I know it was posted earlier that this is not a performance issue but I disagree whole-heartedly. I used MovPics only once whilst I had .png media and I could instantly detect stuttering and the hard-drive grinding trying to keep up with the data pull. (If you check my system spec, you will see it is now a low-powered HTPC).I got around this issue by re-instating a backup of the MovPics image cache from a backup of mine and running an SQL replace command to swap .png for .jpg in the image location columns. Any new imports I manually intervene by resizing to 1280x720 and saving as jpg. The minute visual improvement in a HTPC GUI that full-fat PNGs provide over say a 90-95% quality JPEGs is not a decent pay off for the performance hit and the waste of disk space.EDIT: I don't even think themoviedb.com hosts these images as PNGs, so the conversion is superfluous anyway. Like converting a 128kbps mp3 to FLAC - it isn't going to improve the quality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mortstar, post: 564256, member: 66294"] Obviously I love MovingPictures, but I think saving files as .png is/was a *really bad idea*. I know it was posted earlier that this is [I]not[/I] a performance issue but I disagree whole-heartedly. I used MovPics only once whilst I had .png media and I could instantly detect stuttering and the hard-drive grinding trying to keep up with the data pull. (If you check my system spec, you will see it is now a low-powered HTPC). I got around this issue by re-instating a backup of the MovPics image cache from a backup of mine and running an SQL replace command to swap .png for .jpg in the image location columns. Any new imports I manually intervene by resizing to 1280x720 and saving as jpg. The [I]minute[/I] visual improvement in a HTPC GUI that full-fat PNGs provide over say a 90-95% quality JPEGs is not a decent pay off for the performance hit and the waste of disk space. EDIT: I don't even think themoviedb.com hosts these images as PNGs, so the conversion is superfluous anyway. Like converting a 128kbps mp3 to FLAC - it isn't going to improve the quality. [/QUOTE]

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