XTool 2020 (Main Project)

[Razor12911]

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Changes

- added footer feature in configuration plugins
- added thread priority controller via -T# parameter

Notes

Footer detection has been added to configuration which means if there's no way of knowing the size of a stream but if within the stream itself has a footer or end of file/stream marker, you can input that as a signature for xtool to look for which will help you in determining the size of the stream.

For example, jpeg image file has the header 0xE0FFD8FF but if you looked at the last 3 bytes, you'll notice that in all of them, they end with 99 FF D9, this will be the footer and your configuration should look something like this

[Stream1]
Name=jpg
Codec=packjpg
BigEndian=0
Signature=0xE0FFD8FF
Footer=0xD9FF99
Structure=Signature(4),Stream,Footer(3)
StreamOffset=-4
CompressedSize=Footer+7
DecompressedSize=0

The offset is -4 because the signature is part of the stream, you have Footer=0xD9FF99 which xtool will search for after finding Signature=0xE0FFD8FF, the compressed size is then Footer + 7 because the signature + the footer are both part of the stream.

Another use case for this is if you have streams stored in sequence, if their signature is 59 61 7A 30 and the next stream has the same signature, you can write the next stream as the "footer" of the current stream.

[Stream1]
Name=Yaz0
Codec=Yaz0
BigEndian=0
Signature=0x307A6159
Footer=0x307A6159
Structure=Signature(4),Stream,Footer(4)
StreamOffset=-4
CompressedSize=Footer+4
DecompressedSize=0

This time, the compressed size doesn't added both signature and footer because the footer is actually the header of the next stream, there's one caveat with doing it this way however, the last stream will not be captured.

Thread priority option is added and can be used via -T and the values are 0..6 with zero being idle and 6 being real-time (time critical), if you have laggy mouse while installing a game knowing full well that you have set 100p for xtool and have lolz or lzma working and toasting your CPU and saying it's xtool's problem then you should use this but know that setting this too high means your system will be unresponsive or setting too low making installation longer, well... up to you. Too many notes...

@Cesar82

You can use commas to separate parameters.

For GPU, xtool performs a check to see if the system has a GPU with at least 1GB VRAM and even then it makes sure that there's at least VRAM 512MB left unused. If the condition is not met, it doesn't use GPU at all.