JPEG Saver 5.48
Published
This version adds support for a new file type and a few small improvements in various places.
JPEG XL
JPEG XL (file extension .jxl) is a relatively new image file
format, supporting lossy and lossless images, alpha channels, and animation.
The changes in JPEG Saver 5.48 should support all of those things.
If you haven't seen a JPEG XL file in the wild yet, it doesn't really surprise me. Web browsers have some limited support for them and newer Apple hardware produces them, so I expect they will grow in popularity some time soon.
Transition timing
While testing I found that transitions looked a bit jerky on my second screen. In the end I found out it was because Windows is rendering to that screen at the same rate as my main monitor, even though they are running at different refresh rates.
In any case, this version updates the rendering speed for some of the transitions to make them smoother, and adds an option in the transitions dialog where you can specify your own custom rendering speed. Try it out if you think your transitions are too jerky (or not jerky enough, if that's what you want).
Other stuff
These small changes fix or improve things:
- The config dialog will now always have a taskbar button, so you can more easily tell when it is open.
- The frame used for the static image from a video file will now come from some time into the video instead of the first frame. How long into the video depends on its length. The point of this is to reduce the chance of it being completely black.
- The "Wait for end of video" option that plays a whole video before moving onto the next file now works for animated image types too.
- ICC profiles are now loaded from HEIF / HEIC / AVIF files. This was really simple to add, so I don't know how I missed it before. ICC profiles are working for JPEG XL files too.
- The image list is now rebuilt after rescanning folders from the config dialog, so any changes will be picked up straight away. They could have got out of sync without this change until the list was rebuilt for some other reason.
In other news
An increasing number of the items on my to-do list fit in the category of "That's a lot of work". In general this is because they would need a whole new way of doing things, and to that end I have started a new branch for developing what will be JPEG Saver 6. This will allow me to break things horribly as I try to work out how to do the new stuff, without breaking any 5.x stuff along the way.
I don't have any kind of timescale for when JPEG Saver 6 will be released, but I expect to make smaller and less frequent updates to version 5.x as I start to concentrate on the version 6 changes.
Of course, if you come across any bugs please let me know so that I can fix them - because there is a good chance they would end up in version 6 too.
Download link
The updated installers are available from the downloads page.