Allow external image processing libraries

[rullzer]

Our default image processing backend if gd. Even if the previews are provided by a 3rdparty provider the scaling is still done by a gd backend. Which is not the fastest.

I was thinking of allowing users to configure an optional different backend to handle the images. For example I have been using https://github.com/h2non/imaginary in other projects. it is fast, scaleable and works as advertised.

Of course the default GD backend should stay as the default. But for people that want more performance out of their nextcloud I think this could be a nice boost (jus the same as we allow people to configure redis for locking).

@MorrisJobke @ChristophWurst @skjnldsv @juliushaertl opionions?

[skjnldsv]

This would solve our imagick issue #13099

[rullzer]

At least partly yes

[MorrisJobke]

Sounds sane and allows to pinpoint performance bottlenecks 👍 Separation of concerns often helps to also isolate possible security issues by not allowing this rendering farm to have any external communication.

[enoch85]

Not being a PHP dev, why not use the one with better performance as the default one? We all want NC to fly! :)

[Alexandero89]

Hello,
was there any progress at this topic? ;)

[nachoparker]

Oh! I found this discussion a bit too late. I was playing with extending OC_Image with a OC_Image_JPEG class that uses Imagick and I was able to achieve better performance.

See https://ownyourbits.com/2019/06/29/understanding-and-improving-nextcloud-previews/

[solracsf]

This would be Indeed a great value for big NC instances with a lot of pictures. A scalable (external) processor is a must-have!

[woutergrimme]

@rullzer any updates on this? Seems to me these days https://github.com/h2non/imaginary supports all relevant formats.

[pachulo]

Maybe now that this has been merged this issue can be closed?

[solracsf]

Closing as per #24166