Useful Programs - Requests, Questions and Discussions - Page 24

**Oswald** · September 6th, 2014, 07:44 PM

I keep reading about IrfanView.

http://www.irfanview.com/

Has anyone had any problems with it? I understand it's supposed to be easy to download and view. Also, it claims to be a very useful tool.

**Jism Jim** · September 6th, 2014, 07:58 PM

When referring to Irfanview, the word 'useful' is an understatement.
It has been my #1 image viewer for a decade. It's also a movie viewer, graphics file manager, batch converter and a lot more. It's not without reason it's in one of the guides in my sig.

**Oswald** · September 6th, 2014, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jism Jim

When referring to Irfanview, the word 'useful' is an understatement. It has been my #1 image viewer for a decade. It's also a movie viewer, graphics file manager, batch converter and a lot more. It's not without reason it's in one of the guides in my sig.

Just clicked on your sig and there's nothing there. '404 Not Found' message appears.

**Jism Jim** · September 6th, 2014, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Oswald

Just clicked on your sig and there's nothing there. '404 Not Found' message appears.

This should work.
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...d.php?t=211920

**electile disfunction** · September 7th, 2014, 04:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oswald

I keep reading about IrfanView.

http://www.irfanview.com/

Has anyone had any problems with it? I understand it's supposed to be easy to download and view. Also, it claims to be a very useful tool.

Like Jism Jim, I have used Irfanview for more than a decade as a primary image viewer, wave/midi player, etc. I have never had any problems with it or its the plugins.

It is small, incredibly fast, configuarable, and better than any other viewer I have ever seen. There are times since Windows 98 when I have had more than 40+ instances of Irfanview running simultaneously without any problems and with full useability in each instance.

Try it with or without its plugins--it's is easy to uninstall.

e.d.

**lagerlout** · September 8th, 2014, 03:21 AM

Its awesome for resizing images too.

**deepsepia** · September 8th, 2014, 04:36 AM

For Mac-based folks, the equivalent to Irfan is Lemkesoft's "Graphic Converter".

Its very powerful. Its been around forever, and its very powerful, but with a lot of Unix-y batch functionality hidden behind the OSX UI. Powerful scripting

Its a rather different philosophy than iPhoto, which hides your base files away. Now includes a very nice editor.

Not free, but cheap, and well worth it for anyone with lots of photos on the Mac.

**Sandi Anderson** · October 7th, 2014, 01:25 PM

Im looking for software to allow me to reduce wmv,mp4 and avi files in size.
I have various 2.5gb wmv videos and 500mb - 1gb avi.
Thanks.

**Jism Jim** · October 7th, 2014, 04:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LV Gas

Im looking for software to allow me to reduce wmv,mp4 and avi files in size.
I have various 2.5gb wmv videos and 500mb - 1gb avi.
Thanks.

Unless you are a master video editor you probably can not do this without loss of quality. wmv, mp4 and avi are already compressed. You will have to use a stronger compression to save space. Stronger compression will result in reduced quality.
I don't know why you want to reduce file size, but I suggest you get a larger HD.

**deepsepia** · October 7th, 2014, 06:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LV Gas

Im looking for software to allow me to reduce wmv,mp4 and avi files in size.
I have various 2.5gb wmv videos and 500mb - 1gb avi.
Thanks.

I'd generally second what JismJim said, with one caveat: if your source files were a poor quality rip, they can actually be much larger than they need to be.

That is, sometimes folks will do a rip of an old VHS tape that's at much higher data rates than the theres actual data in the source.

Handbrake will do a good job of evaluating source and producing a smaller file, IF the source is wasteful. As JJ notes, in general, if you're reducing the size of a competently produced file, you're going to losing data, and there's a lot of expertise required to get settings right to do so-- given how cheap disks are, generally isn't worth the trouble.

Handbrake is also good for transcoding source for a different target -- if you have a big Bluray 1080 rip, that's going to be a waste for watching on your phone. note: if you upload to YouTube, they automatically compress big stuff to a variety of smaller formats, it's a handy way of doing a multi format down sample, if you have content which can be uploaded to YouTube.

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September 6th, 2014, 07:44 PM	#231
Oswald Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 13,112 Thanks: 51,073 Thanked 282,459 Times in 13,802 Posts	I keep reading about IrfanView. http://www.irfanview.com/ Has anyone had any problems with it? I understand it's supposed to be easy to download and view. Also, it claims to be a very useful tool.

September 8th, 2014, 04:36 AM	#237
deepsepia Moderator Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Upper left corner Posts: 7,205 Thanks: 47,953 Thanked 83,435 Times in 7,199 Posts	For Mac-based folks, the equivalent to Irfan is Lemkesoft's "Graphic Converter". Its very powerful. Its been around forever, and its very powerful, but with a lot of Unix-y batch functionality hidden behind the OSX UI. Powerful scripting Its a rather different philosophy than iPhoto, which hides your base files away. Now includes a very nice editor. Not free, but cheap, and well worth it for anyone with lots of photos on the Mac.

October 7th, 2014, 01:25 PM	#238
Sandi Anderson Vintage Member Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 1,401 Thanks: 15,119 Thanked 26,593 Times in 1,476 Posts	Im looking for software to allow me to reduce wmv,mp4 and avi files in size. I have various 2.5gb wmv videos and 500mb - 1gb avi. Thanks.