support for RAW photos

[emistral]

Hi there,

I could not find any information related to this topic on the net but does MrMc support RAW photos, in particular Nikon NEF format and Sony ARW format?
I am currently using plex because it supports RAW. But because plex does not support liveTV and recording, I am currently juggling between Plex, MrMc and Emby for my media.
Each on them are currently missing something.
MrMc handles beautiful livetv and recording but the only thing missing is RAW. If it was supported then I could finally have only one media centre on apple TV 4.
thanks

[amet]

I don't have any to test, will find some online later.

Did you try it and it's not working?

[emistral]

yes I tried. I have thousands of RAW photos stored in different folders. The folder is displayed but when going into the folder, it is empty.
But the folders on the NAS are not empty. I am guessing it simply does not display them because of unknown file type of something like that.
According to Kodi wiki page:
3.1 Format support

XBMC/Kodi can be used to play/view all common multimedia formats through its native clients and parsers. It can decode these audio and video formats in software or hardware, and optionally pass-through AC3/DTS/HD audio, or encode to AC3 in real time from movies directly to S/PDIF digital output to an external audio-amplifier/receiver for decoding.

Supported formats
(...)
Digital picture/image formats: RAW image formats, BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, MNG, ICO, PCX and Targa/TGA
Subtitle formats: AQTitle, ASS/SSA, CC, JACOsub, MicroDVD, MPsub, OGM, PJS, RT, SMI, SRT, SUB, VOBsub, VPlayer
Metadata tags: APEv1, APEv2, ID3 (ID3v1 and ID3v2), ID666 and Vorbis comments for audio file formats, Exif and IPTC (including GeoTagging) for image file formats

RAW listed however there are many types of RAW format so not sure if NEF and ARW are supported. However if I am not mistaken, kodi uses DCRaw which supports NEF/ARW

[amet]

If you can email [email protected] with a sample photos we will test and report back.

[emistral]

Hi there,

I have sent you 2 photos in RAW formats:
- one NEF (nikon)
- one ARW (sony)

let me know if you have received them. Note that it is 2 separate emails because of the size of the files (26MB each)
Thanks

[amet]

I am sure it bounced, our server will only handle 20mb per mail.

Could you Dropbox/WeTransfer it and mail the link please.

Thanks!

[amet]

ok, I managed to get some ARW and NEF files, we will look into it and let you know

[cosmoxl]

ok, I managed to get some ARW and NEF files, we will look into it and let you know

I think trying to support raw image files is going down a rabbit hole. Not only are there several formats (from several different camera makers) you'll also have to deal with how to process the raw image so that it displays something reasonable. Being raw it is 12-14bit data, not 8 bit like jpeg. And it's unprocessed meaning that some gamma curve, color profile, contrast/brightness will need to be applied or it'll look bad.

http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/

If you must do this dcraw is an opensource tool used for decoding and manipulating raw images. I'm not sure if it can be incorporated into MrMC.

[amet]

Libraw is there and handles all raw formats, we will look into adding support for it in upcoming versions

[emistral]

Correct. The only thing to keep in mind is to update the library when new cameras are out, similar to what Adobe does with Camera Raw.
thanks for taking into consideration the support of raw format.
Glad I bought MrMc. First time that at least the developers listen to the customers and react quickly to bugs, at least for me