[TYPO3-english] hook in thumbnail generation? [WAS: questions about FAL]

[bernd wilke]

Am 17.04.14 09:51, schrieb Christian Weiske:
> Hello Bernd,
>
>
>> and as TYPO3 creates its own thumbnails it takes a lot of space to
>> generate and store thumbnails which would be available on the fly
>> from the imageserver as the server could serve any size by asking
>> with the matching url (the size would be coded in the url-path).
>> Therefore the routines to resize images should be changable [4]
>
> No this is not possible to load thumbnails from the image server.
> Even when you have a own FAL storage adapter, the standard TYPO3
> methods of scaling/thumbnailing are used, only the (maybe copied to
> local) files from your storage driver.

is it possible to hook into the thumbnail generation?
or replace it? or anything like this?

this might not be directly FAL related, but as it works with files 
provided by FAL it touches FAL.

bernd
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