JAlbum 6.4 released

Dear JAlbum user, JAlbum 6.4 has just been released. This version has an important memory related bug fix and a nice improvement to the handling of movie files as the most important changes (see the history page for the version history). You can update directly from the JAlbum download page. As usual, there is no need to uninstall previous versions.

Movie thumbnails
I've just been on a wonderful ski trip to Val d'Isère (first vacation from JAlbum in four years). Coming back with over 400 digital images and some movies gave me a great reason to use JAlbum myself for a change :-) (This is something I should do more often by the way). When working with the movie clips the digital cameras produce these days I was annoyed that JAlbum only generates generic movie icons for those files. (It made it hard to find that offpist section I wanted to play). Many users have requested that JAlbum should be able to pick the first image from movie files and use as thumbnail. This is of course a great idea, but I've had problems implementing it. However, Canon and Sony cameras actually does part of this job. They store a representing thumbnail image in a "THM" file along with each movie file. JAlbum 6.4 is now smart enough to recognize and use those files. You can see my Val d'Isère album as an example. (The movie files are several MB in size, so you might not want to load them over a slow connection)

Better memory handling
Editing comments in the new Edit section was a real memory eater causing JAlbum to slow down after browsing through a number of images (since v6.0). I've finally been able to address this issue with this release. You should notice that the comment editing section is more responsive now.