New to Minimserver - a few questions

[simoncn]

(04-05-2013 08:38)winxi Wrote:  Yes, I think most of the control points do so. However, if the user scrolls quickly through a large list of items, the control point may request a large number of thumbnails within a short timeframe.

I agree that this can happen.

Quote:I completely agree, but if a control point supports image resizing and thumbnail caching itself, there is little point in doing this at the server side, too. Server side image resizing is interesting for control points which do not support thumbnail caching, to retrieve the thumbnails from the server fast.

The server needs to support thumbnail resizing for interoperability with control points that can handle only thumbnail-sized images (DLNA profiles JPEG_TN and PNG_TN). Server-side thumbnail resizing is also useful for reducing the amount of data sent across the network. Control point resizing is needed for displaying images that aren't thumbnails but don't exactly match the original image size.