FR / IDEA - Image Optimization (option)

[mgonzales71]

@marcelveldt Have you thought of adding an option for image optimization?

Since your scripts do a lot of image scraping, caching, etc - maybe consider adding an option to download and then use optimized images in place of the ones downloaded?

I noticed that the largest part of my kodi backups were images (and not TexturesDB or /Thumbnails which I exclude) from artwork scrappers that had downloaded several HUGE PNG and JPG files that did not need to be so large.

So this site that caught my eye in a discussion I was reading about windows tools to batch reduce images

https://www.softwariness.com/articles/reduce-image-file-sizes-using-python/

which led me to propose this idea after thinking that this could be another tool to speed up skin and your scripts for use with Kodi (and save space as well)... but obviously users would want control over it being on or off, etc

I am guessing there are several options but looks like PIL has support available for this sort of thing

Anyway - thoughts?

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If interested - other links I have run across for my personal use:

http://optipng.sourceforge.net/
http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm
http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/

a windows program I use: http://pnggauntlet.com/
another gui wrapper for all platforms - https://trimage.org/