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IrfanView

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520 points omnibrain | 1 comments | 30 Mar 24 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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instagraham ◴[30 Mar 24 17:21 UTC] No.39876705[source]▶
Why are most comments referring to having used this in the past tense? I was under the impression that it was still the best image viewer in town, on Windows at least
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gsich ◴[30 Mar 24 17:30 UTC] No.39876791[source]▶
It's not.
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j45 ◴[30 Mar 24 17:32 UTC] No.39876815[source]▶
Alternative?
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yau8edq12i ◴[30 Mar 24 17:35 UTC] No.39876837[source]▶
The built-in viewer in windows is fine. I can't really think of a feature that it doesn't have that I need. Could you say why irfanview gets your vote?
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jajko ◴[30 Mar 24 17:43 UTC] No.39876924[source]▶
The speed, plugins ecosystem, many more formats supported out of the box, crop being faster and more intuitive, often good enough auto adjust.

Irfan for images and vlc for video is the name of the game for me (and total commander for file management, the efficiency compared to simpler stuff is still in wow territory).

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1. j45 ◴[30 Mar 24 19:11 UTC] No.39877692{3}[source]▶
IrfanView started so long ago, got and stayed so far ahead.

Wish there was a mac version, but it can be run in an emulator easy enough.