Pinga/pingo PNG optimizer maybe tit's up. 404!

[doppler]

The best optimizer for PNG media files may be no more or at least not supported. I get 404 error on https://css-ig.net/pingo

If this is really the case a file hosting site like fileshare maybe the next thing to get it. If you have a better option let's hear it ? Maybe the MD@Home network could be used?
Latest version 14 was only 2,139,410 bytes. Smaller than some JPG and PNG's I have seen before reduction on Mangadex.

 

[DrWhoCares]

@doppler This isn't the first time this has happened. Although it is the longest downtime I've seen.
It'll probably eventually return, but cedric is as entirely unpredictable as his genius is unfathomable.
He probably optimized his site right out of existence, who knows.

 

[doppler]

@DrWhoCares I have seen this happen before. When it came back contact, comments, suggestions and fix reports were gone. The help wiki is so out of date, it's not funny anymore. And I still think because it is so small size. Mangadex could host the zip too. I really got into it with another user on mangadex. And we came up with a wonderful bat script to use on the command line. Too bad you can't search by user post. I started a message about compression usage and followed in on another which lead to the script. (btw, cmdow is a fantastic window manipulator. You don't need it to run the script.) I will give you a short cut here:

cmdow @ /mov 1 535 /siz 1400 520
SETLOCAL
SET "sourcedir=%~dp0"
FOR /r "%sourcedir%" %%a IN (*.png) DO (
start "" /normal /wait /min C:\pinga\pingo.exe -q -nodate -pngpalette=40 -notrans -s9 "%%a"
)
rem echo %Time%
rem pause
GOTO :EOF

 

[DrWhoCares]

@doppler Not gunna lie,that's a pretty atrocious script my man.
Cedric does what he wants, when he wants, however he wants. He giveth and then he taketh away without any warning. Feel blessed you were even born in the Age of Chadric, to be graced by his presence and bequeathed a mere drop in the ocean of quantum wrinkles chadric's brain has to offer.

Also, just use imgdanke.
https://github.com/DrWhoCares/imgdanke/

 

[doppler]

@DrWhoCares The script is right out of examples on sites. I only added from the script the other guy found, and I later found too. "Start" to multitask better "Wait and min" so it doesn't start new cmd terminals equal to the number of PNG's 1500 png's 1500 terminals. "Min" became very important to reduce epileptic seizures. Things were flashing way too much.

Actually the script is very basic. It can go thur all sub directories and do all PNG's unaided. Plus the upside, more cores the faster the results. Would love to have a thread ripper from AMD.

 

[DrWhoCares]

@doppler Why would it open multiple terminals in the first place?
pingo can work on folders. It's also already multi-threaded by default.
Are you using some sorta decade old version of pingo or something?
That script is really, really awful, even by batch standards.

 

[doppler]

@DrWhoCares The start windows cmdline parameter is a "Start a new terminal occurrence (multi-threading)" using the passed parameters. So in a for do loop. It's a fast start,loop,start,loop ... ETC. Without the passed command to "start" /wait. You get 1500 or whatever windows. If you use the pinga gui interface the parameters "-q -nodate -pngpalette=40 -notrans -s9" they are passed off in a hidden way to execute. You just don't know about it. Then you may ask, "Why don't I just use the GUI pinga interface to do my dirty work?" Well as great as Cedric is his GUI version interface has a real problem with large numbers of pngs compressed. One error and the remain pngs after are not treated. So you got no idea where the error occurred or what files didn't get processed. He was informed via multiple bug reports of this happening, by multiple people. He never got it fixed. But then Cedric did turn off comments/feedback/bug reports. On his website.

Cedric understands compression better than any other programmer out there when it comes to PNG. When it comes down to JPG (via gui interface) he must be using a jpg compression module from someone else (and it sucks the big one). You may ask, who does a great job with JPG? That program is NXpower Lite Desktop. The NXpower guys use "PNGQUANT" as a module. Let's just say it's not a good compressor. If you want to use NXpower lite desktop. That's the first thing to rename in the directory so it's not used. It will throw an exception and complain, so what nothing will come of it.

Hope this helps you understand what goes on "hidden" most of the time. Batch files can get nasty sometimes. But Python scripts take the cake in structured nasty.

 

[Bottersnike]

Coughs very hard while running "pingo -s9 *.png"

 

[doppler]

@Bottersnike I have a 4th gen I7, and yea it does struggle with the max settings. I will take end product over speed any day. Always use a copy of the original to compress. Then copy back after review over writing the larger. Total commander has a nice option feature for just that. The byte count can go down significantly. It's possible for 10:1 sometimes, but then it could be bytes or some K's or no change.

Just try running it on a old Core 2 Duo. That bugger is about 4X slower or worst.

BTW, Everyone the site is back up. It's still the same as always no changes. And on RC14 as before. Just took a hiatus.