The information below only matters for those who consider using Mtgdb.Gui image downloader.
Next update is coming ~this weekend +/-. It will be mostly about speeding up image downloading with Mtgdb.Downloader.exe
Downloaded image sizes will be exactly as shown in Mtgdb.Gui - 2 sizes - normal - zoomed. And diveded into 3 consecutive bunches:
- Small images will be 31k files, ~800MB. These are shown in search result - the main part of Mtgdb.Gui screen.
- Zoomed images will come in two bunches. First zoomed bunch 31k files totalling 2.7 GB
- Second zoomed bunch will be image variants of card. For instance most sets have ~4 different images of each basic land. 2nd-4rd variants will be in this bunch.
This way the total download volume is dramatically reduced from ~19GB to ~4GB without loosing perceived image quality in Mtgdb.Gui
As a side effect, using the new images improves scrolling smoothnes, because non-zoomed image is dowloaded from 50KB file instead of 500KB.
There is a possibility to further significantly improve image downloder speed by switching to torrent.
The idea is to ship mtgdb.gui with
Deluge insntaller.
Deluge is a very pretty cross-patform torrent client supporting command line inerface (CLI) besides normal windowed user interface. Using CLI Mtgdb.Downloader.exe can tell
Deluge what torrent to dowload and where to.
Now guys I'd like to get some feedback from you:
Would you like to use automatic image downloading via torrent?
Or would it be ok to keep download from MEGA at 300 KB/sec and/or
download a torrent manually specifying correct destination directory?