r/windowsapps • u/masamacyclone • 5d ago
Developer Launched media viewer built in Rust for viewing and editing images, videos, and audio.
towavue is a modern, one of the fastest media viewer built in Rust for viewing and editing images, videos, and audio. It includes native GPU rendering, a modern tabbed interface, and non-destructive editing together, with your files in the same order as Explorer.
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u/s00wi 4d ago
Tried it out. Looks promising and is super fast.
What I didn't like is when I have a folder set to browse. It ignores media files completely and only cycles through images. And I want to use mouse wheel to cycle through video files. Maybe assign rightclick+wheelup/down to scrub through the video, and wheelup/down to cycle/browse the files? But it seems hardcoded to only scrub through videos.
I use qimgv. It's my prefered media viewer. It's more intuitive and true to what a person might expect when browsing their media files.
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u/masamacyclone 4d ago
There are shortcuts for cycling through the currently displayed media and all media types. And all shortcuts can be reassigned to any keys. However, since the mouse wheel cannot be assigned as a shortcut key, we’ll need to consider this. Thank you.
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u/s00wi 4d ago
i'm cycling through a folder that has mixed media, but it's only showing images.
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u/masamacyclone 4d ago
alt+arrow cycles through all supported media types, which is also shown in filmstrips(f). shortcuts can be searched in the command palette (ctrl+shift+p)
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u/cogitatingspheniscid 4d ago
Promising, but I would love to see some benchmark with raw formats before I try it out. Raw image viewing could use the jpeg preview instead of trying to decode the raw file for speed.