JPEG option for scraper

[oherau]

Hi

Covers/box arts take a lot of space with the PNG format (lossless format)
For now the scraper shrink img size to 250x360 max box saving some space on the disk.
But they are still taking a lot of place compared to some games.
Would it be possible to add an option to convert them as jpeg with a reasonable default quality setting (~80%)?

[Aemiii91]

The frontend (MainUI) doesn't support JPG, so there's really no point 🤷‍♂️

[Aemiii91]

Well, we don't control MainUI in that way. But we do plan on writing our own frontend at some point 🤷‍♂️

[oherau]

Decoding PNG for display is usually faster and works better on 'pixel' retro designs.
JPEG take much less space and works better with 'real' images.

It would be a nice to preserve storage space, but PNG does the job rather well for now.

[Aemiii91]

If you want, you can compress PNGs as well (e.g. online service)

[oherau]

At least I hope scraper uses compression.
If not it is a point to improve for sure.

[Nighted]

Use PngOptimizer. It will free up some space without affecting image quality.