PQV and VCE rise again

[Guest bitbank]

I'm working on a big update to my Pocket QuickView and Virtual CE software (both PPC and SmartPhone versions). I've made some changes to make PQV radically faster at browsing images and I would like some feedback on how you would like it to operate. I will release a free beta as soon as it's a little more complete, but shown below is a screen shot of the new SmartPhone file selector. Right now it allows you to zoom through a directory full of images and shows the thumbnail image as you navigate. Any ideas on improving the usability would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Larry Bank

P.S. In case you didn't notice, the screen shot below is 240x320 taken from a SPV C550 (paid a fortune for it :) )

Edited August 11, 2005 by bitbank

[Guest bitbank]

I've done some more optimization (writing part of the JPEG decode in ARM assembly language) and have some good results.

On an HP iPAQ h2215 (my slow test machine) PQV can extract and decompress a 160x120 thumbnail image in 32 milliseconds. To decompress the image at full size (2272 x 1704) takes 1 second from RAM and 1.5 seconds from CF/SD.

I am working on cleaning up the file browser and adding a nice display of the photographer's info (ISO. shutter, F, flash, etc).

More news soon...

Can any one find some load times from other photo software to compare with mine?

Thanks,

Larry B.

[Guest mavisdavis]

Nice work Bitbank.

I don't have a c550 (swapped it for a M500) but This looks really usefull.

Keep it up mate