Originally posted by todd Just in case anybody has similar experience to me, the Adobe codec is way too slow for me (on Win7 and Win10). For a full album of thumbnails it just takes forever to build all the thumbnail images, so I bought
Fast Picture Viewer Code Pack ($10) and it's much faster for me...
I second this reply. I do not use Adobe's codec due to speed; it can take a long time to render thumbnails. I suspect it builds them from the raw data, and it seems like it rebuilds them each time. I never gave it much of a chance after spending a few weeks in agony.
The Fast Picture Viewer codec is really fast and has the advantage of working with any RAW format. That advantage comes down to one installer for virtually any RAW format rather than finding separate codecs for each raw format. This only matters because we do have some cameras from other photo systems.
I do suspect the Fast Picture Viewer codec pulls the embedded image from a RAW, so the representation is not necessarily accurate, but I generally don't worry about that when I am viewing thumbnails. I'm usually looking for a photo knowing I'll need to do some PP.