Out of Memory Error - functionality request
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First of all, let me just congratulate you on a great app. I think I speak for many people when I say that this is one of the most wanted apps available for android.
As far as the functionality goes I think you've got just about everything covered - the only problem is this damn Out of Memory error.
I'm experiencing it a lot when reading .cbr files and since they're the most common I'm experiencing the issue a lot in general.
Now I know about the difficulties inherent with unpacking the rars and etc. but the workarounds are just too much effort.
Is there any chance that something can be done to fix (or at least significantly reduce) this issue? -
As far as we know most Android devices -if not all- don't have enough application memory to handle RAR decompression while guaranteeing 100% success.
But we're not RAR experts, nor we want to be. We don't know why CBR/RAR was chosen as an industry standard. It's a horrible choice, and certainly nobody who made it had mobiles in mind.
As you mentioned there are workarounds, and we will gradually make them more accesible for users.
Obviously, if we find a way to improve our RAR decompression algorithm, we will. But we will never encourage users to favor CBR over CBZ. The digital comic book industry could benefit from letting go of the CBR format.
The best thing you can do is to request your comics in CBZ/ZIP, preferably with no compression. -
Actually I take this one back - the workarounds are not too much effort.
There is a bulk cbr -> cbz convertor intrinsic to the ComicRack program that takes all of the hassle out of the process. And since using cbz files only I haven't experienced the out of memory issue once.
Keep up the good work. -
Hi, after I downloaded the comicviewer and tested it on a cbr, it crashed a few pages later regretfully. After searching for a solution, I ended up here in this pretty new thread which told me what was wrong. Thanks zissou. I've registered here, because I hacked a shellscript together to convert cbrs to cbzs. Just give the filename or a directory with cbrs as argument and it creates cbzs in the same directory. It has no fancy features or anything - it just does the job. Sorry it also isn't really documented. Is there a way to post it here for others or something? Glad to share it. For the windows guys out there, maybe someone can port it to a windows batchscript. Or I don't know - a small android app.
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Hi appleslayer! Your script will be most welcome. Please post it in the Support forum in a separate thread. You can use http://pastebin.com/ to publish the script, and include the link in your post. Thanks!
(the Windows guys can use ComicRack) -
Ok, I will do that.
> (the Windows guys can use ComicRack)
Do I smell sarcasm here? XD -
Ok, whatever :). Either way, I improved the script with some explanations and some optional commandline arguments to be more usable by others (not a dirty hacked script anymore). I posted it in the support section. As I've already written in the comments of the script, improvements/corrections etc. are very much appreciated.
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