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- USING THE IJG JPEG LIBRARY
- Copyright (C) 1994-2013, Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding.
- This file is part of the Independent JPEG Group's software.
- For conditions of distribution and use, see the accompanying README file.
- This file describes how to use the IJG JPEG library within an application
- program. Read it if you want to write a program that uses the library.
- The file example.c provides heavily commented skeleton code for calling the
- JPEG library. Also see jpeglib.h (the include file to be used by application
- programs) for full details about data structures and function parameter lists.
- The library source code, of course, is the ultimate reference.
- Note that there have been *major* changes from the application interface
- presented by IJG version 4 and earlier versions. The old design had several
- inherent limitations, and it had accumulated a lot of cruft as we added
- features while trying to minimize application-interface changes. We have
- sacrificed backward compatibility in the version 5 rewrite, but we think the
- improvements justify this.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- -----------------
- Overview:
- Functions provided by the library
- Outline of typical usage
- Basic library usage:
- Data formats
- Compression details
- Decompression details
- Mechanics of usage: include files, linking, etc
- Advanced features:
- Compression parameter selection
- Decompression parameter selection
- Special color spaces
- Error handling
- Compressed data handling (source and destination managers)
- I/O suspension
- Progressive JPEG support
- Buffered-image mode
- Abbreviated datastreams and multiple images
- Special markers
- Raw (downsampled) image data
- Really raw data: DCT coefficients
- Progress monitoring
- Memory management
- Memory usage
- Library compile-time options
- Portability considerations
- Notes for MS-DOS implementors
- You should read at least the overview and basic usage sections before trying
- to program with the library. The sections on advanced features can be read
- if and when you need them.
- OVERVIEW
- ========
- Functions provided by the library
- ---------------------------------
- The IJG JPEG library provides C code to read and write JPEG-compressed image
- files. The surrounding application program receives or supplies image data a
- scanline at a time, using a straightforward uncompressed image format. All
- details of color conversion and other preprocessing/postprocessing can be
- handled by the library.
- The library includes a substantial amount of code that is not covered by the
- JPEG standard but is necessary for typical applications of JPEG. These
- functions preprocess the image before JPEG compression or postprocess it after
- decompression. They include colorspace conversion, downsampling/upsampling,
- and color quantization. The application indirectly selects use of this code
- by specifying the format in which it wishes to supply or receive image data.
- For example, if colormapped output is requested, then the decompression
- library automatically invokes color quantization.
- A wide range of quality vs. speed tradeoffs are possible in JPEG processing,
- and even more so in decompression postprocessing. The decompression library
- provides multiple implementations that cover most of the useful tradeoffs,
- ranging from very-high-quality down to fast-preview operation. On the
- compression side we have generally not provided low-quality choices, since
- compression is normally less time-critical. It should be understood that the
- low-quality modes may not meet the JPEG standard's accuracy requirements;
- nonetheless, they are useful for viewers.
- A word about functions *not* provided by the library. We handle a subset of
- the ISO JPEG standard; most baseline, extended-sequential, and progressive
- JPEG processes are supported. (Our subset includes all features now in common
- use.) Unsupported ISO options include:
- * Hierarchical storage
- * Lossless JPEG
- * DNL marker
- * Nonintegral subsampling ratios
- We support 8-bit to 12-bit data precision, but this is a compile-time choice
- rather than a run-time choice; hence it is difficult to use different
- precisions in a single application.
- By itself, the library handles only interchange JPEG datastreams --- in
- particular the widely used JFIF file format. The library can be used by
- surrounding code to process interchange or abbreviated JPEG datastreams that
- are embedded in more complex file formats. (For example, this library is
- used by the free LIBTIFF library to support JPEG compression in TIFF.)
- Outline of typical usage
- ------------------------
- The rough outline of a JPEG compression operation is:
- Allocate and initialize a JPEG compression object
- Specify the destination for the compressed data (eg, a file)
- Set parameters for compression, including image size & colorspace
- jpeg_start_compress(...);
- while (scan lines remain to be written)
- jpeg_write_scanlines(...);
- jpeg_finish_compress(...);
- Release the JPEG compression object
- A JPEG compression object holds parameters and working state for the JPEG
- library. We make creation/destruction of the object separate from starting
- or finishing compression of an image; the same object can be re-used for a
- series of image compression operations. This makes it easy to re-use the
- same parameter settings for a sequence of images. Re-use of a JPEG object
- also has important implications for processing abbreviated JPEG datastreams,
- as discussed later.
- The image data to be compressed is supplied to jpeg_write_scanlines() from
- in-memory buffers. If the application is doing file-to-file compression,
- reading image data from the source file is the application's responsibility.
- The library emits compressed data by calling a "data destination manager",
- which typically will write the data into a file; but the application can
- provide its own destination manager to do something else.
- Similarly, the rough outline of a JPEG decompression operation is:
- Allocate and initialize a JPEG decompression object
- Specify the source of the compressed data (eg, a file)
- Call jpeg_read_header() to obtain image info
- Set parameters for decompression
- jpeg_start_decompress(...);
- while (scan lines remain to be read)
- jpeg_read_scanlines(...);
- jpeg_finish_decompress(...);
- Release the JPEG decompression object
- This is comparable to the compression outline except that reading the
- datastream header is a separate step. This is helpful because information
- about the image's size, colorspace, etc is available when the application
- selects decompression parameters. For example, the application can choose an
- output scaling ratio that will fit the image into the available screen size.
- The decompression library obtains compressed data by calling a data source
- manager, which typically will read the data from a file; but other behaviors
- can be obtained with a custom source manager. Decompressed data is delivered
- into in-memory buffers passed to jpeg_read_scanlines().
- It is possible to abort an incomplete compression or decompression operation
- by calling jpeg_abort(); or, if you do not need to retain the JPEG object,
- simply release it by calling jpeg_destroy().
- JPEG compression and decompression objects are two separate struct types.
- However, they share some common fields, and certain routines such as
- jpeg_destroy() can work on either type of object.
- The JPEG library has no static variables: all state is in the compression
- or decompression object. Therefore it is possible to process multiple
- compression and decompression operations concurrently, using multiple JPEG
- objects.
- Both compression and decompression can be done in an incremental memory-to-
- memory fashion, if suitable source/destination managers are used. See the
- section on "I/O suspension" for more details.
- BASIC LIBRARY USAGE
- ===================
- Data formats
- ------------
- Before diving into procedural details, it is helpful to understand the
- image data format that the JPEG library expects or returns.
- The standard input image format is a rectangular array of pixels, with each
- pixel having the same number of "component" or "sample" values (color
- channels). You must specify how many components there are and the colorspace
- interpretation of the components. Most applications will use RGB data
- (three components per pixel) or grayscale data (one component per pixel).
- PLEASE NOTE THAT RGB DATA IS THREE SAMPLES PER PIXEL, GRAYSCALE ONLY ONE.
- A remarkable number of people manage to miss this, only to find that their
- programs don't work with grayscale JPEG files.
- There is no provision for colormapped input. JPEG files are always full-color
- or full grayscale (or sometimes another colorspace such as CMYK). You can
- feed in a colormapped image by expanding it to full-color format. However
- JPEG often doesn't work very well with source data that has been colormapped,
- because of dithering noise. This is discussed in more detail in the JPEG FAQ
- and the other references mentioned in the README file.
- Pixels are stored by scanlines, with each scanline running from left to
- right. The component values for each pixel are adjacent in the row; for
- example, R,G,B,R,G,B,R,G,B,... for 24-bit RGB color. Each scanline is an
- array of data type JSAMPLE --- which is typically "unsigned char", unless
- you've changed jmorecfg.h. (You can also change the RGB pixel layout, say
- to B,G,R order, by modifying jmorecfg.h. But see the restrictions listed in
- that file before doing so.)
- A 2-D array of pixels is formed by making a list of pointers to the starts of
- scanlines; so the scanlines need not be physically adjacent in memory. Even
- if you process just one scanline at a time, you must make a one-element
- pointer array to conform to this structure. Pointers to JSAMPLE rows are of
- type JSAMPROW, and the pointer to the pointer array is of type JSAMPARRAY.
- The library accepts or supplies one or more complete scanlines per call.
- It is not possible to process part of a row at a time. Scanlines are always
- processed top-to-bottom. You can process an entire image in one call if you
- have it all in memory, but usually it's simplest to process one scanline at
- a time.
- For best results, source data values should have the precision specified by
- BITS_IN_JSAMPLE (normally 8 bits). For instance, if you choose to compress
- data that's only 6 bits/channel, you should left-justify each value in a
- byte before passing it to the compressor. If you need to compress data
- that has more than 8 bits/channel, compile with BITS_IN_JSAMPLE = 9 to 12.
- (See "Library compile-time options", later.)
- The data format returned by the decompressor is the same in all details,
- except that colormapped output is supported. (Again, a JPEG file is never
- colormapped. But you can ask the decompressor to perform on-the-fly color
- quantization to deliver colormapped output.) If you request colormapped
- output then the returned data array contains a single JSAMPLE per pixel;
- its value is an index into a color map. The color map is represented as
- a 2-D JSAMPARRAY in which each row holds the values of one color component,
- that is, colormap[i][j] is the value of the i'th color component for pixel
- value (map index) j. Note that since the colormap indexes are stored in
- JSAMPLEs, the maximum number of colors is limited by the size of JSAMPLE
- (ie, at most 256 colors for an 8-bit JPEG library).
- Compression details
- -------------------
- Here we revisit the JPEG compression outline given in the overview.
- 1. Allocate and initialize a JPEG compression object.
- A JPEG compression object is a "struct jpeg_compress_struct". (It also has
- a bunch of subsidiary structures which are allocated via malloc(), but the
- application doesn't control those directly.) This struct can be just a local
- variable in the calling routine, if a single routine is going to execute the
- whole JPEG compression sequence. Otherwise it can be static or allocated
- from malloc().
- You will also need a structure representing a JPEG error handler. The part
- of this that the library cares about is a "struct jpeg_error_mgr". If you
- are providing your own error handler, you'll typically want to embed the
- jpeg_error_mgr struct in a larger structure; this is discussed later under
- "Error handling". For now we'll assume you are just using the default error
- handler. The default error handler will print JPEG error/warning messages
- on stderr, and it will call exit() if a fatal error occurs.
- You must initialize the error handler structure, store a pointer to it into
- the JPEG object's "err" field, and then call jpeg_create_compress() to
- initialize the rest of the JPEG object.
- Typical code for this step, if you are using the default error handler, is
- struct jpeg_compress_struct cinfo;
- struct jpeg_error_mgr jerr;
- ...
- cinfo.err = jpeg_std_error(&jerr);
- jpeg_create_compress(&cinfo);
- jpeg_create_compress allocates a small amount of memory, so it could fail
- if you are out of memory. In that case it will exit via the error handler;
- that's why the error handler must be initialized first.
- 2. Specify the destination for the compressed data (eg, a file).
- As previously mentioned, the JPEG library delivers compressed data to a
- "data destination" module. The library includes one data destination
- module which knows how to write to a stdio stream. You can use your own
- destination module if you want to do something else, as discussed later.
- If you use the standard destination module, you must open the target stdio
- stream beforehand. Typical code for this step looks like:
- FILE * outfile;
- ...
- if ((outfile = fopen(filename, "wb")) == NULL) {
- fprintf(stderr, "can't open %s\n", filename);
- exit(1);
- }
- jpeg_stdio_dest(&cinfo, outfile);
- where the last line invokes the standard destination module.
- WARNING: it is critical that the binary compressed data be delivered to the
- output file unchanged. On non-Unix systems the stdio library may perform
- newline translation or otherwise corrupt binary data. To suppress this
- behavior, you may need to use a "b" option to fopen (as shown above), or use
- setmode() or another routine to put the stdio stream in binary mode. See
- cjpeg.c and djpeg.c for code that has been found to work on many systems.
- You can select the data destination after setting other parameters (step 3),
- if that's more convenient. You may not change the destination between
- calling jpeg_start_compress() and jpeg_finish_compress().
- 3. Set parameters for compression, including image size & colorspace.
- You must supply information about the source image by setting the following
- fields in the JPEG object (cinfo structure):
- image_width Width of image, in pixels
- image_height Height of image, in pixels
- input_components Number of color channels (samples per pixel)
- in_color_space Color space of source image
- The image dimensions are, hopefully, obvious. JPEG supports image dimensions
- of 1 to 64K pixels in either direction. The input color space is typically
- RGB or grayscale, and input_components is 3 or 1 accordingly. (See "Special
- color spaces", later, for more info.) The in_color_space field must be
- assigned one of the J_COLOR_SPACE enum constants, typically JCS_RGB or
- JCS_GRAYSCALE.
- JPEG has a large number of compression parameters that determine how the
- image is encoded. Most applications don't need or want to know about all
- these parameters. You can set all the parameters to reasonable defaults by
- calling jpeg_set_defaults(); then, if there are particular values you want
- to change, you can do so after that. The "Compression parameter selection"
- section tells about all the parameters.
- You must set in_color_space correctly before calling jpeg_set_defaults(),
- because the defaults depend on the source image colorspace. However the
- other three source image parameters need not be valid until you call
- jpeg_start_compress(). There's no harm in calling jpeg_set_defaults() more
- than once, if that happens to be convenient.
- Typical code for a 24-bit RGB source image is
- cinfo.image_width = Width; /* image width and height, in pixels */
- cinfo.image_height = Height;
- cinfo.input_components = 3; /* # of color components per pixel */
- cinfo.in_color_space = JCS_RGB; /* colorspace of input image */
- jpeg_set_defaults(&cinfo);
- /* Make optional parameter settings here */
- 4. jpeg_start_compress(...);
- After you have established the data destination and set all the necessary
- source image info and other parameters, call jpeg_start_compress() to begin
- a compression cycle. This will initialize internal state, allocate working
- storage, and emit the first few bytes of the JPEG datastream header.
- Typical code:
- jpeg_start_compress(&cinfo, TRUE);
- The "TRUE" parameter ensures that a complete JPEG interchange datastream
- will be written. This is appropriate in most cases. If you think you might
- want to use an abbreviated datastream, read the section on abbreviated
- datastreams, below.
- Once you have called jpeg_start_compress(), you may not alter any JPEG
- parameters or other fields of the JPEG object until you have completed
- the compression cycle.
- 5. while (scan lines remain to be written)
- jpeg_write_scanlines(...);
- Now write all the required image data by calling jpeg_write_scanlines()
- one or more times. You can pass one or more scanlines in each call, up
- to the total image height. In most applications it is convenient to pass
- just one or a few scanlines at a time. The expected format for the passed
- data is discussed under "Data formats", above.
- Image data should be written in top-to-bottom scanline order. The JPEG spec
- contains some weasel wording about how top and bottom are application-defined
- terms (a curious interpretation of the English language...) but if you want
- your files to be compatible with everyone else's, you WILL use top-to-bottom
- order. If the source data must be read in bottom-to-top order, you can use
- the JPEG library's virtual array mechanism to invert the data efficiently.
- Examples of this can be found in the sample application cjpeg.
- The library maintains a count of the number of scanlines written so far
- in the next_scanline field of the JPEG object. Usually you can just use
- this variable as the loop counter, so that the loop test looks like
- "while (cinfo.next_scanline < cinfo.image_height)".
- Code for this step depends heavily on the way that you store the source data.
- example.c shows the following code for the case of a full-size 2-D source
- array containing 3-byte RGB pixels:
- JSAMPROW row_pointer[1]; /* pointer to a single row */
- int row_stride; /* physical row width in buffer */
- row_stride = image_width * 3; /* JSAMPLEs per row in image_buffer */
- while (cinfo.next_scanline < cinfo.image_height) {
- row_pointer[0] = & image_buffer[cinfo.next_scanline * row_stride];
- jpeg_write_scanlines(&cinfo, row_pointer, 1);
- }
- jpeg_write_scanlines() returns the number of scanlines actually written.
- This will normally be equal to the number passed in, so you can usually
- ignore the return value. It is different in just two cases:
- * If you try to write more scanlines than the declared image height,
- the additional scanlines are ignored.
- * If you use a suspending data destination manager, output buffer overrun
- will cause the compressor to return before accepting all the passed lines.
- This feature is discussed under "I/O suspension", below. The normal
- stdio destination manager will NOT cause this to happen.
- In any case, the return value is the same as the change in the value of
- next_scanline.
- 6. jpeg_finish_compress(...);
- After all the image data has been written, call jpeg_finish_compress() to
- complete the compression cycle. This step is ESSENTIAL to ensure that the
- last bufferload of data is written to the data destination.
- jpeg_finish_compress() also releases working memory associated with the JPEG
- object.
- Typical code:
- jpeg_finish_compress(&cinfo);
- If using the stdio destination manager, don't forget to close the output
- stdio stream (if necessary) afterwards.
- If you have requested a multi-pass operating mode, such as Huffman code
- optimization, jpeg_finish_compress() will perform the additional passes using
- data buffered by the first pass. In this case jpeg_finish_compress() may take
- quite a while to complete. With the default compression parameters, this will
- not happen.
- It is an error to call jpeg_finish_compress() before writing the necessary
- total number of scanlines. If you wish to abort compression, call
- jpeg_abort() as discussed below.
- After completing a compression cycle, you may dispose of the JPEG object
- as discussed next, or you may use it to compress another image. In that case
- return to step 2, 3, or 4 as appropriate. If you do not change the
- destination manager, the new datastream will be written to the same target.
- If you do not change any JPEG parameters, the new datastream will be written
- with the same parameters as before. Note that you can change the input image
- dimensions freely between cycles, but if you change the input colorspace, you
- should call jpeg_set_defaults() to adjust for the new colorspace; and then
- you'll need to repeat all of step 3.
- 7. Release the JPEG compression object.
- When you are done with a JPEG compression object, destroy it by calling
- jpeg_destroy_compress(). This will free all subsidiary memory (regardless of
- the previous state of the object). Or you can call jpeg_destroy(), which
- works for either compression or decompression objects --- this may be more
- convenient if you are sharing code between compression and decompression
- cases. (Actually, these routines are equivalent except for the declared type
- of the passed pointer. To avoid gripes from ANSI C compilers, jpeg_destroy()
- should be passed a j_common_ptr.)
- If you allocated the jpeg_compress_struct structure from malloc(), freeing
- it is your responsibility --- jpeg_destroy() won't. Ditto for the error
- handler structure.
- Typical code:
- jpeg_destroy_compress(&cinfo);
- 8. Aborting.
- If you decide to abort a compression cycle before finishing, you can clean up
- in either of two ways:
- * If you don't need the JPEG object any more, just call
- jpeg_destroy_compress() or jpeg_destroy() to release memory. This is
- legitimate at any point after calling jpeg_create_compress() --- in fact,
- it's safe even if jpeg_create_compress() fails.
- * If you want to re-use the JPEG object, call jpeg_abort_compress(), or call
- jpeg_abort() which works on both compression and decompression objects.
- This will return the object to an idle state, releasing any working memory.
- jpeg_abort() is allowed at any time after successful object creation.
- Note that cleaning up the data destination, if required, is your
- responsibility; neither of these routines will call term_destination().
- (See "Compressed data handling", below, for more about that.)
- jpeg_destroy() and jpeg_abort() are the only safe calls to make on a JPEG
- object that has reported an error by calling error_exit (see "Error handling"
- for more info). The internal state of such an object is likely to be out of
- whack. Either of these two routines will return the object to a known state.
- Decompression details
- ---------------------
- Here we revisit the JPEG decompression outline given in the overview.
- 1. Allocate and initialize a JPEG decompression object.
- This is just like initialization for compression, as discussed above,
- except that the object is a "struct jpeg_decompress_struct" and you
- call jpeg_create_decompress(). Error handling is exactly the same.
- Typical code:
- struct jpeg_decompress_struct cinfo;
- struct jpeg_error_mgr jerr;
- ...
- cinfo.err = jpeg_std_error(&jerr);
- jpeg_create_decompress(&cinfo);
- (Both here and in the IJG code, we usually use variable name "cinfo" for
- both compression and decompression objects.)
- 2. Specify the source of the compressed data (eg, a file).
- As previously mentioned, the JPEG library reads compressed data from a "data
- source" module. The library includes one data source module which knows how
- to read from a stdio stream. You can use your own source module if you want
- to do something else, as discussed later.
- If you use the standard source module, you must open the source stdio stream
- beforehand. Typical code for this step looks like:
- FILE * infile;
- ...
- if ((infile = fopen(filename, "rb")) == NULL) {
- fprintf(stderr, "can't open %s\n", filename);
- exit(1);
- }
- jpeg_stdio_src(&cinfo, infile);
- where the last line invokes the standard source module.
- WARNING: it is critical that the binary compressed data be read unchanged.
- On non-Unix systems the stdio library may perform newline translation or
- otherwise corrupt binary data. To suppress this behavior, you may need to use
- a "b" option to fopen (as shown above), or use setmode() or another routine to
- put the stdio stream in binary mode. See cjpeg.c and djpeg.c for code that
- has been found to work on many systems.
- You may not change the data source between calling jpeg_read_header() and
- jpeg_finish_decompress(). If you wish to read a series of JPEG images from
- a single source file, you should repeat the jpeg_read_header() to
- jpeg_finish_decompress() sequence without reinitializing either the JPEG
- object or the data source module; this prevents buffered input data from
- being discarded.
- 3. Call jpeg_read_header() to obtain image info.
- Typical code for this step is just
- jpeg_read_header(&cinfo, TRUE);
- This will read the source datastream header markers, up to the beginning
- of the compressed data proper. On return, the image dimensions and other
- info have been stored in the JPEG object. The application may wish to
- consult this information before selecting decompression parameters.
- More complex code is necessary if
- * A suspending data source is used --- in that case jpeg_read_header()
- may return before it has read all the header data. See "I/O suspension",
- below. The normal stdio source manager will NOT cause this to happen.
- * Abbreviated JPEG files are to be processed --- see the section on
- abbreviated datastreams. Standard applications that deal only in
- interchange JPEG files need not be concerned with this case either.
- It is permissible to stop at this point if you just wanted to find out the
- image dimensions and other header info for a JPEG file. In that case,
- call jpeg_destroy() when you are done with the JPEG object, or call
- jpeg_abort() to return it to an idle state before selecting a new data
- source and reading another header.
- 4. Set parameters for decompression.
- jpeg_read_header() sets appropriate default decompression parameters based on
- the properties of the image (in particular, its colorspace). However, you
- may well want to alter these defaults before beginning the decompression.
- For example, the default is to produce full color output from a color file.
- If you want colormapped output you must ask for it. Other options allow the
- returned image to be scaled and allow various speed/quality tradeoffs to be
- selected. "Decompression parameter selection", below, gives details.
- If the defaults are appropriate, nothing need be done at this step.
- Note that all default values are set by each call to jpeg_read_header().
- If you reuse a decompression object, you cannot expect your parameter
- settings to be preserved across cycles, as you can for compression.
- You must set desired parameter values each time.
- 5. jpeg_start_decompress(...);
- Once the parameter values are satisfactory, call jpeg_start_decompress() to
- begin decompression. This will initialize internal state, allocate working
- memory, and prepare for returning data.
- Typical code is just
- jpeg_start_decompress(&cinfo);
- If you have requested a multi-pass operating mode, such as 2-pass color
- quantization, jpeg_start_decompress() will do everything needed before data
- output can begin. In this case jpeg_start_decompress() may take quite a while
- to complete. With a single-scan (non progressive) JPEG file and default
- decompression parameters, this will not happen; jpeg_start_decompress() will
- return quickly.
- After this call, the final output image dimensions, including any requested
- scaling, are available in the JPEG object; so is the selected colormap, if
- colormapped output has been requested. Useful fields include
- output_width image width and height, as scaled
- output_height
- out_color_components # of color components in out_color_space
- output_components # of color components returned per pixel
- colormap the selected colormap, if any
- actual_number_of_colors number of entries in colormap
- output_components is 1 (a colormap index) when quantizing colors; otherwise it
- equals out_color_components. It is the number of JSAMPLE values that will be
- emitted per pixel in the output arrays.
- Typically you will need to allocate data buffers to hold the incoming image.
- You will need output_width * output_components JSAMPLEs per scanline in your
- output buffer, and a total of output_height scanlines will be returned.
- Note: if you are using the JPEG library's internal memory manager to allocate
- data buffers (as djpeg does), then the manager's protocol requires that you
- request large buffers *before* calling jpeg_start_decompress(). This is a
- little tricky since the output_XXX fields are not normally valid then. You
- can make them valid by calling jpeg_calc_output_dimensions() after setting the
- relevant parameters (scaling, output color space, and quantization flag).
- 6. while (scan lines remain to be read)
- jpeg_read_scanlines(...);
- Now you can read the decompressed image data by calling jpeg_read_scanlines()
- one or more times. At each call, you pass in the maximum number of scanlines
- to be read (ie, the height of your working buffer); jpeg_read_scanlines()
- will return up to that many lines. The return value is the number of lines
- actually read. The format of the returned data is discussed under "Data
- formats", above. Don't forget that grayscale and color JPEGs will return
- different data formats!
- Image data is returned in top-to-bottom scanline order. If you must write
- out the image in bottom-to-top order, you can use the JPEG library's virtual
- array mechanism to invert the data efficiently. Examples of this can be
- found in the sample application djpeg.
- The library maintains a count of the number of scanlines returned so far
- in the output_scanline field of the JPEG object. Usually you can just use
- this variable as the loop counter, so that the loop test looks like
- "while (cinfo.output_scanline < cinfo.output_height)". (Note that the test
- should NOT be against image_height, unless you never use scaling. The
- image_height field is the height of the original unscaled image.)
- The return value always equals the change in the value of output_scanline.
- If you don't use a suspending data source, it is safe to assume that
- jpeg_read_scanlines() reads at least one scanline per call, until the
- bottom of the image has been reached.
- If you use a buffer larger than one scanline, it is NOT safe to assume that
- jpeg_read_scanlines() fills it. (The current implementation returns only a
- few scanlines per call, no matter how large a buffer you pass.) So you must
- always provide a loop that calls jpeg_read_scanlines() repeatedly until the
- whole image has been read.
- 7. jpeg_finish_decompress(...);
- After all the image data has been read, call jpeg_finish_decompress() to
- complete the decompression cycle. This causes working memory associated
- with the JPEG object to be released.
- Typical code:
- jpeg_finish_decompress(&cinfo);
- If using the stdio source manager, don't forget to close the source stdio
- stream if necessary.
- It is an error to call jpeg_finish_decompress() before reading the correct
- total number of scanlines. If you wish to abort decompression, call
- jpeg_abort() as discussed below.
- After completing a decompression cycle, you may dispose of the JPEG object as
- discussed next, or you may use it to decompress another image. In that case
- return to step 2 or 3 as appropriate. If you do not change the source
- manager, the next image will be read from the same source.
- 8. Release the JPEG decompression object.
- When you are done with a JPEG decompression object, destroy it by calling
- jpeg_destroy_decompress() or jpeg_destroy(). The previous discussion of
- destroying compression objects applies here too.
- Typical code:
- jpeg_destroy_decompress(&cinfo);
- 9. Aborting.
- You can abort a decompression cycle by calling jpeg_destroy_decompress() or
- jpeg_destroy() if you don't need the JPEG object any more, or
- jpeg_abort_decompress() or jpeg_abort() if you want to reuse the object.
- The previous discussion of aborting compression cycles applies here too.
- Mechanics of usage: include files, linking, etc
- -----------------------------------------------
- Applications using the JPEG library should include the header file jpeglib.h
- to obtain declarations of data types and routines. Before including
- jpeglib.h, include system headers that define at least the typedefs FILE and
- size_t. On ANSI-conforming systems, including <stdio.h> is sufficient; on
- older Unix systems, you may need <sys/types.h> to define size_t.
- If the application needs to refer to individual JPEG library error codes, also
- include jerror.h to define those symbols.
- jpeglib.h indirectly includes the files jconfig.h and jmorecfg.h. If you are
- installing the JPEG header files in a system directory, you will want to
- install all four files: jpeglib.h, jerror.h, jconfig.h, jmorecfg.h.
- The most convenient way to include the JPEG code into your executable program
- is to prepare a library file ("libjpeg.a", or a corresponding name on non-Unix
- machines) and reference it at your link step. If you use only half of the
- library (only compression or only decompression), only that much code will be
- included from the library, unless your linker is hopelessly brain-damaged.
- The supplied makefiles build libjpeg.a automatically (see install.txt).
- While you can build the JPEG library as a shared library if the whim strikes
- you, we don't really recommend it. The trouble with shared libraries is that
- at some point you'll probably try to substitute a new version of the library
- without recompiling the calling applications. That generally doesn't work
- because the parameter struct declarations usually change with each new
- version. In other words, the library's API is *not* guaranteed binary
- compatible across versions; we only try to ensure source-code compatibility.
- (In hindsight, it might have been smarter to hide the parameter structs from
- applications and introduce a ton of access functions instead. Too late now,
- however.)
- On some systems your application may need to set up a signal handler to ensure
- that temporary files are deleted if the program is interrupted. This is most
- critical if you are on MS-DOS and use the jmemdos.c memory manager back end;
- it will try to grab extended memory for temp files, and that space will NOT be
- freed automatically. See cjpeg.c or djpeg.c for an example signal handler.
- It may be worth pointing out that the core JPEG library does not actually
- require the stdio library: only the default source/destination managers and
- error handler need it. You can use the library in a stdio-less environment
- if you replace those modules and use jmemnobs.c (or another memory manager of
- your own devising). More info about the minimum system library requirements
- may be found in jinclude.h.
- ADVANCED FEATURES
- =================
- Compression parameter selection
- -------------------------------
- This section describes all the optional parameters you can set for JPEG
- compression, as well as the "helper" routines provided to assist in this
- task. Proper setting of some parameters requires detailed understanding
- of the JPEG standard; if you don't know what a parameter is for, it's best
- not to mess with it! See REFERENCES in the README file for pointers to
- more info about JPEG.
- It's a good idea to call jpeg_set_defaults() first, even if you plan to set
- all the parameters; that way your code is more likely to work with future JPEG
- libraries that have additional parameters. For the same reason, we recommend
- you use a helper routine where one is provided, in preference to twiddling
- cinfo fields directly.
- The helper routines are:
- jpeg_set_defaults (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
- This routine sets all JPEG parameters to reasonable defaults, using
- only the input image's color space (field in_color_space, which must
- already be set in cinfo). Many applications will only need to use
- this routine and perhaps jpeg_set_quality().
- jpeg_set_colorspace (j_compress_ptr cinfo, J_COLOR_SPACE colorspace)
- Sets the JPEG file's colorspace (field jpeg_color_space) as specified,
- and sets other color-space-dependent parameters appropriately. See
- "Special color spaces", below, before using this. A large number of
- parameters, including all per-component parameters, are set by this
- routine; if you want to twiddle individual parameters you should call
- jpeg_set_colorspace() before rather than after.
- jpeg_default_colorspace (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
- Selects an appropriate JPEG colorspace based on cinfo->in_color_space,
- and calls jpeg_set_colorspace(). This is actually a subroutine of
- jpeg_set_defaults(). It's broken out in case you want to change
- just the colorspace-dependent JPEG parameters.
- jpeg_set_quality (j_compress_ptr cinfo, int quality, boolean force_baseline)
- Constructs JPEG quantization tables appropriate for the indicated
- quality setting. The quality value is expressed on the 0..100 scale
- recommended by IJG (cjpeg's "-quality" switch uses this routine).
- Note that the exact mapping from quality values to tables may change
- in future IJG releases as more is learned about DCT quantization.
- If the force_baseline parameter is TRUE, then the quantization table
- entries are constrained to the range 1..255 for full JPEG baseline
- compatibility. In the current implementation, this only makes a
- difference for quality settings below 25, and it effectively prevents
- very small/low quality files from being generated. The IJG decoder
- is capable of reading the non-baseline files generated at low quality
- settings when force_baseline is FALSE, but other decoders may not be.
- jpeg_set_linear_quality (j_compress_ptr cinfo, int scale_factor,
- boolean force_baseline)
- Same as jpeg_set_quality() except that the generated tables are the
- sample tables given in the JPEC spec section K.1, multiplied by the
- specified scale factor (which is expressed as a percentage; thus
- scale_factor = 100 reproduces the spec's tables). Note that larger
- scale factors give lower quality. This entry point is useful for
- conforming to the Adobe PostScript DCT conventions, but we do not
- recommend linear scaling as a user-visible quality scale otherwise.
- force_baseline again constrains the computed table entries to 1..255.
- int jpeg_quality_scaling (int quality)
- Converts a value on the IJG-recommended quality scale to a linear
- scaling percentage. Note that this routine may change or go away
- in future releases --- IJG may choose to adopt a scaling method that
- can't be expressed as a simple scalar multiplier, in which case the
- premise of this routine collapses. Caveat user.
- jpeg_default_qtables (j_compress_ptr cinfo, boolean force_baseline)
- Set default quantization tables with linear q_scale_factor[] values
- (see below).
- jpeg_add_quant_table (j_compress_ptr cinfo, int which_tbl,
- const unsigned int *basic_table,
- int scale_factor, boolean force_baseline)
- Allows an arbitrary quantization table to be created. which_tbl
- indicates which table slot to fill. basic_table points to an array
- of 64 unsigned ints given in normal array order. These values are
- multiplied by scale_factor/100 and then clamped to the range 1..65535
- (or to 1..255 if force_baseline is TRUE).
- CAUTION: prior to library version 6a, jpeg_add_quant_table expected
- the basic table to be given in JPEG zigzag order. If you need to
- write code that works with either older or newer versions of this
- routine, you must check the library version number. Something like
- "#if JPEG_LIB_VERSION >= 61" is the right test.
- jpeg_simple_progression (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
- Generates a default scan script for writing a progressive-JPEG file.
- This is the recommended method of creating a progressive file,
- unless you want to make a custom scan sequence. You must ensure that
- the JPEG color space is set correctly before calling this routine.
- Compression parameters (cinfo fields) include:
- boolean arith_code
- If TRUE, use arithmetic coding.
- If FALSE, use Huffman coding.
- int block_size
- Set DCT block size. All N from 1 to 16 are possible.
- Default is 8 (baseline format).
- Larger values produce higher compression,
- smaller values produce higher quality.
- An exact DCT stage is possible with 1 or 2.
- With the default quality of 75 and default Luminance qtable
- the DCT+Quantization stage is lossless for value 1.
- Note that values other than 8 require a SmartScale capable decoder,
- introduced with IJG JPEG 8. Setting the block_size parameter for
- compression works with version 8c and later.
- J_DCT_METHOD dct_method
- Selects the algorithm used for the DCT step. Choices are:
- JDCT_ISLOW: slow but accurate integer algorithm
- JDCT_IFAST: faster, less accurate integer method
- JDCT_FLOAT: floating-point method
- JDCT_DEFAULT: default method (normally JDCT_ISLOW)
- JDCT_FASTEST: fastest method (normally JDCT_IFAST)
- The FLOAT method is very slightly more accurate than the ISLOW method,
- but may give different results on different machines due to varying
- roundoff behavior. The integer methods should give the same results
- on all machines. On machines with sufficiently fast FP hardware, the
- floating-point method may also be the fastest. The IFAST method is
- considerably less accurate than the other two; its use is not
- recommended if high quality is a concern. JDCT_DEFAULT and
- JDCT_FASTEST are macros configurable by each installation.
- unsigned int scale_num, scale_denom
- Scale the image by the fraction scale_num/scale_denom. Default is
- 1/1, or no scaling. Currently, the supported scaling ratios are
- M/N with all N from 1 to 16, where M is the destination DCT size,
- which is 8 by default (see block_size parameter above).
- (The library design allows for arbitrary scaling ratios but this
- is not likely to be implemented any time soon.)
- J_COLOR_SPACE jpeg_color_space
- int num_components
- The JPEG color space and corresponding number of components; see
- "Special color spaces", below, for more info. We recommend using
- jpeg_set_colorspace() if you want to change these.
- J_COLOR_TRANSFORM color_transform
- Internal color transform identifier, writes LSE marker if nonzero
- (requires decoder with inverse color transform support, introduced
- with IJG JPEG 9).
- Two values are currently possible: JCT_NONE and JCT_SUBTRACT_GREEN.
- Set this value for lossless RGB application *before* calling
- jpeg_set_colorspace(), because entropy table assignment in
- jpeg_set_colorspace() depends on color_transform.
- boolean optimize_coding
- TRUE causes the compressor to compute optimal Huffman coding tables
- for the image. This requires an extra pass over the data and
- therefore costs a good deal of space and time. The default is
- FALSE, which tells the compressor to use the supplied or default
- Huffman tables. In most cases optimal tables save only a few percent
- of file size compared to the default tables. Note that when this is
- TRUE, you need not supply Huffman tables at all, and any you do
- supply will be overwritten.
- unsigned int restart_interval
- int restart_in_rows
- To emit restart markers in the JPEG file, set one of these nonzero.
- Set restart_interval to specify the exact interval in MCU blocks.
- Set restart_in_rows to specify the interval in MCU rows. (If
- restart_in_rows is not 0, then restart_interval is set after the
- image width in MCUs is computed.) Defaults are zero (no restarts).
- One restart marker per MCU row is often a good choice.
- NOTE: the overhead of restart markers is higher in grayscale JPEG
- files than in color files, and MUCH higher in progressive JPEGs.
- If you use restarts, you may want to use larger intervals in those
- cases.
- const jpeg_scan_info * scan_info
- int num_scans
- By default, scan_info is NULL; this causes the compressor to write a
- single-scan sequential JPEG file. If not NULL, scan_info points to
- an array of scan definition records of length num_scans. The
- compressor will then write a JPEG file having one scan for each scan
- definition record. This is used to generate noninterleaved or
- progressive JPEG files. The library checks that the scan array
- defines a valid JPEG scan sequence. (jpeg_simple_progression creates
- a suitable scan definition array for progressive JPEG.) This is
- discussed further under "Progressive JPEG support".
- boolean do_fancy_downsampling
- If TRUE, use direct DCT scaling with DCT size > 8 for downsampling
- of chroma components.
- If FALSE, use only DCT size <= 8 and simple separate downsampling.
- Default is TRUE.
- For better image stability in multiple generation compression cycles
- it is preferable that this value matches the corresponding
- do_fancy_upsampling value in decompression.
- int smoothing_factor
- If non-zero, the input image is smoothed; the value should be 1 for
- minimal smoothing to 100 for maximum smoothing. Consult jcsample.c
- for details of the smoothing algorithm. The default is zero.
- boolean write_JFIF_header
- If TRUE, a JFIF APP0 marker is emitted. jpeg_set_defaults() and
- jpeg_set_colorspace() set this TRUE if a JFIF-legal JPEG color space
- (ie, YCbCr or grayscale) is selected, otherwise FALSE.
- UINT8 JFIF_major_version
- UINT8 JFIF_minor_version
- The version number to be written into the JFIF marker.
- jpeg_set_defaults() initializes the version to 1.01 (major=minor=1).
- You should set it to 1.02 (major=1, minor=2) if you plan to write
- any JFIF 1.02 extension markers.
- UINT8 density_unit
- UINT16 X_density
- UINT16 Y_density
- The resolution information to be written into the JFIF marker;
- not used otherwise. density_unit may be 0 for unknown,
- 1 for dots/inch, or 2 for dots/cm. The default values are 0,1,1
- indicating square pixels of unknown size.
- boolean write_Adobe_marker
- If TRUE, an Adobe APP14 marker is emitted. jpeg_set_defaults() and
- jpeg_set_colorspace() set this TRUE if JPEG color space RGB, CMYK,
- or YCCK is selected, otherwise FALSE. It is generally a bad idea
- to set both write_JFIF_header and write_Adobe_marker. In fact,
- you probably shouldn't change the default settings at all --- the
- default behavior ensures that the JPEG file's color space can be
- recognized by the decoder.
- JQUANT_TBL * quant_tbl_ptrs[NUM_QUANT_TBLS]
- Pointers to coefficient quantization tables, one per table slot,
- or NULL if no table is defined for a slot. Usually these should
- be set via one of the above helper routines; jpeg_add_quant_table()
- is general enough to define any quantization table. The other
- routines will set up table slot 0 for luminance quality and table
- slot 1 for chrominance.
- int q_scale_factor[NUM_QUANT_TBLS]
- Linear quantization scaling factors (percentage, initialized 100)
- for use with jpeg_default_qtables().
- See rdswitch.c and cjpeg.c for an example of usage.
- Note that the q_scale_factor[] fields are the "linear" scales, so you
- have to convert from user-defined ratings via jpeg_quality_scaling().
- Here is an example code which corresponds to cjpeg -quality 90,70:
- jpeg_set_defaults(cinfo);
- /* Set luminance quality 90. */
- cinfo->q_scale_factor[0] = jpeg_quality_scaling(90);
- /* Set chrominance quality 70. */
- cinfo->q_scale_factor[1] = jpeg_quality_scaling(70);
- jpeg_default_qtables(cinfo, force_baseline);
- CAUTION: You must also set 1x1 subsampling for efficient separate
- color quality selection, since the default value used by library
- is 2x2:
- cinfo->comp_info[0].v_samp_factor = 1;
- cinfo->comp_info[0].h_samp_factor = 1;
- JHUFF_TBL * dc_huff_tbl_ptrs[NUM_HUFF_TBLS]
- JHUFF_TBL * ac_huff_tbl_ptrs[NUM_HUFF_TBLS]
- Pointers to Huffman coding tables, one per table slot, or NULL if
- no table is defined for a slot. Slots 0 and 1 are filled with the
- JPEG sample tables by jpeg_set_defaults(). If you need to allocate
- more table structures, jpeg_alloc_huff_table() may be used.
- Note that optimal Huffman tables can be computed for an image
- by setting optimize_coding, as discussed above; there's seldom
- any need to mess with providing your own Huffman tables.
- The actual dimensions of the JPEG image that will be written to the file are
- given by the following fields. These are computed from the input image
- dimensions and the compression parameters by jpeg_start_compress(). You can
- also call jpeg_calc_jpeg_dimensions() to obtain the values that will result
- from the current parameter settings. This can be useful if you are trying
- to pick a scaling ratio that will get close to a desired target size.
- JDIMENSION jpeg_width Actual dimensions of output image.
- JDIMENSION jpeg_height
- Per-component parameters are stored in the struct cinfo.comp_info[i] for
- component number i. Note that components here refer to components of the
- JPEG color space, *not* the source image color space. A suitably large
- comp_info[] array is allocated by jpeg_set_defaults(); if you choose not
- to use that routine, it's up to you to allocate the array.
- int component_id
- The one-byte identifier code to be recorded in the JPEG file for
- this component. For the standard color spaces, we recommend you
- leave the default values alone.
- int h_samp_factor
- int v_samp_factor
- Horizontal and vertical sampling factors for the component; must
- be 1..4 according to the JPEG standard. Note that larger sampling
- factors indicate a higher-resolution component; many people find
- this behavior quite unintuitive. The default values are 2,2 for
- luminance components and 1,1 for chrominance components, except
- for grayscale where 1,1 is used.
- int quant_tbl_no
- Quantization table number for component. The default value is
- 0 for luminance components and 1 for chrominance components.
- int dc_tbl_no
- int ac_tbl_no
- DC and AC entropy coding table numbers. The default values are
- 0 for luminance components and 1 for chrominance components.
- int component_index
- Must equal the component's index in comp_info[]. (Beginning in
- release v6, the compressor library will fill this in automatically;
- you don't have to.)
- Decompression parameter selection
- ---------------------------------
- Decompression parameter selection is somewhat simpler than compression
- parameter selection, since all of the JPEG internal parameters are
- recorded in the source file and need not be supplied by the application.
- (Unless you are working with abbreviated files, in which case see
- "Abbreviated datastreams", below.) Decompression parameters control
- the postprocessing done on the image to deliver it in a format suitable
- for the application's use. Many of the parameters control speed/quality
- tradeoffs, in which faster decompression may be obtained at the price of
- a poorer-quality image. The defaults select the highest quality (slowest)
- processing.
- The following fields in the JPEG object are set by jpeg_read_header() and
- may be useful to the application in choosing decompression parameters:
- JDIMENSION image_width Width and height of image
- JDIMENSION image_height
- int num_components Number of color components
- J_COLOR_SPACE jpeg_color_space Colorspace of image
- boolean saw_JFIF_marker TRUE if a JFIF APP0 marker was seen
- UINT8 JFIF_major_version Version information from JFIF marker
- UINT8 JFIF_minor_version
- UINT8 density_unit Resolution data from JFIF marker
- UINT16 X_density
- UINT16 Y_density
- boolean saw_Adobe_marker TRUE if an Adobe APP14 marker was seen
- UINT8 Adobe_transform Color transform code from Adobe marker
- The JPEG color space, unfortunately, is something of a guess since the JPEG
- standard proper does not provide a way to record it. In practice most files
- adhere to the JFIF or Adobe conventions, and the decoder will recognize these
- correctly. See "Special color spaces", below, for more info.
- The decompression parameters that determine the basic properties of the
- returned image are:
- J_COLOR_SPACE out_color_space
- Output color space. jpeg_read_header() sets an appropriate default
- based on jpeg_color_space; typically it will be RGB or grayscale.
- The application can change this field to request output in a different
- colorspace. For example, set it to JCS_GRAYSCALE to get grayscale
- output from a color file. (This is useful for previewing: grayscale
- output is faster than full color since the color components need not
- be processed.) Note that not all possible color space transforms are
- currently implemented; you may need to extend jdcolor.c if you want an
- unusual conversion.
- unsigned int scale_num, scale_denom
- Scale the image by the fraction scale_num/scale_denom. Currently,
- the supported scaling ratios are M/N with all M from 1 to 16, where
- N is the source DCT size, which is 8 for baseline JPEG. (The library
- design allows for arbitrary scaling ratios but this is not likely
- to be implemented any time soon.) The values are initialized by
- jpeg_read_header() with the source DCT size. For baseline JPEG
- this is 8/8. If you change only the scale_num value while leaving
- the other unchanged, then this specifies the DCT scaled size to be
- applied on the given input. For baseline JPEG this is equivalent
- to M/8 scaling, since the source DCT size for baseline JPEG is 8.
- Smaller scaling ratios permit significantly faster decoding since
- fewer pixels need be processed and a simpler IDCT method can be used.
- boolean quantize_colors
- If set TRUE, colormapped output will be delivered. Default is FALSE,
- meaning that full-color output will be delivered.
- The next three parameters are relevant only if quantize_colors is TRUE.
- int desired_number_of_colors
- Maximum number of colors to use in generating a library-supplied color
- map (the actual number of colors is returned in a different field).
- Default 256. Ignored when the application supplies its own color map.
- boolean two_pass_quantize
- If TRUE, an extra pass over the image is made to select a custom color
- map for the image. This usually looks a lot better than the one-size-
- fits-all colormap that is used otherwise. Default is TRUE. Ignored
- when the application supplies its own color map.
- J_DITHER_MODE dither_mode
- Selects color dithering method. Supported values are:
- JDITHER_NONE no dithering: fast, very low quality
- JDITHER_ORDERED ordered dither: moderate speed and quality
- JDITHER_FS Floyd-Steinberg dither: slow, high quality
- Default is JDITHER_FS. (At present, ordered dither is implemented
- only in the single-pass, standard-colormap case. If you ask for
- ordered dither when two_pass_quantize is TRUE or when you supply
- an external color map, you'll get F-S dithering.)
- When quantize_colors is TRUE, the target color map is described by the next
- two fields. colormap is set to NULL by jpeg_read_header(). The application
- can supply a color map by setting colormap non-NULL and setting
- actual_number_of_colors to the map size. Otherwise, jpeg_start_decompress()
- selects a suitable color map and sets these two fields itself.
- [Implementation restriction: at present, an externally supplied colormap is
- only accepted for 3-component output color spaces.]
- JSAMPARRAY colormap
- The color map, represented as a 2-D pixel array of out_color_components
- rows and actual_number_of_colors columns. Ignored if not quantizing.
- CAUTION: if the JPEG library creates its own colormap, the storage
- pointed to by this field is released by jpeg_finish_decompress().
- Copy the colormap somewhere else first, if you want to save it.
- int actual_number_of_colors
- The number of colors in the color map.
- Additional decompression parameters that the application may set include:
- J_DCT_METHOD dct_method
- Selects the algorithm used for the DCT step. Choices are the same
- as described above for compression.
- boolean do_fancy_upsampling
- If TRUE, use direct DCT scaling with DCT size > 8 for upsampling
- of chroma components.
- If FALSE, use only DCT size <= 8 and simple separate upsampling.
- Default is TRUE.
- For better image stability in multiple generation compression cycles
- it is preferable that this value matches the corresponding
- do_fancy_downsampling value in compression.
- boolean do_block_smoothing
- If TRUE, interblock smoothing is applied in early stages of decoding
- progressive JPEG files; if FALSE, not. Default is TRUE. Early
- progression stages look "fuzzy" with smoothing, "blocky" without.
- In any case, block smoothing ceases to be applied after the first few
- AC coefficients are known to full accuracy, so it is relevant only
- when using buffered-image mode for progressive images.
- boolean enable_1pass_quant
- boolean enable_external_quant
- boolean enable_2pass_quant
- These are significant only in buffered-image mode, which is
- described in its own section below.
- The output image dimensions are given by the following fields. These are
- computed from the source image dimensions and the decompression parameters
- by jpeg_start_decompress(). You can also call jpeg_calc_output_dimensions()
- to obtain the values that will result from the current parameter settings.
- This can be useful if you are trying to pick a scaling ratio that will get
- close to a desired target size. It's also important if you are using the
- JPEG library's memory manager to allocate output buffer space, because you
- are supposed to request such buffers *before* jpeg_start_decompress().
- JDIMENSION output_width Actual dimensions of output image.
- JDIMENSION output_height
- int out_color_components Number of color components in out_color_space.
- int output_components Number of color components returned.
- int rec_outbuf_height Recommended height of scanline buffer.
- When quantizing colors, output_components is 1, indicating a single color map
- index per pixel. Otherwise it equals out_color_components. The output arrays
- are required to be output_width * output_components JSAMPLEs wide.
- rec_outbuf_height is the recommended minimum height (in scanlines) of the
- buffer passed to jpeg_read_scanlines(). If the buffer is smaller, the
- library will still work, but time will be wasted due to unnecessary data
- copying. In high-quality modes, rec_outbuf_height is always 1, but some
- faster, lower-quality modes set it to larger values (typically 2 to 4).
- If you are going to ask for a high-speed processing mode, you may as well
- go to the trouble of honoring rec_outbuf_height so as to avoid data copying.
- (An output buffer larger than rec_outbuf_height lines is OK, but won't
- provide any material speed improvement over that height.)
- Special color spaces
- --------------------
- The JPEG standard itself is "color blind" and doesn't specify any particular
- color space. It is customary to convert color data to a luminance/chrominance
- color space before compressing, since this permits greater compression. The
- existing JPEG file interchange format standards specify YCbCr or GRAYSCALE
- data (JFIF version 1), GRAYSCALE, RGB, YCbCr, CMYK, or YCCK (Adobe), or BG_RGB
- or BG_YCC (big gamut color spaces, JFIF version 2). For special applications
- such as multispectral images, other color spaces can be used,
- but it must be understood that such files will be unportable.
- The JPEG library can handle the most common colorspace conversions (namely
- RGB <=> YCbCr and CMYK <=> YCCK). It can also deal with data of an unknown
- color space, passing it through without conversion. If you deal extensively
- with an unusual color space, you can easily extend the library to understand
- additional color spaces and perform appropriate conversions.
- For compression, the source data's color space is specified by field
- in_color_space. This is transformed to the JPEG file's color space given
- by jpeg_color_space. jpeg_set_defaults() chooses a reasonable JPEG color
- space depending on in_color_space, but you can override this by calling
- jpeg_set_colorspace(). Of course you must select a supported transformation.
- jccolor.c currently supports the following transformations:
- RGB => YCbCr
- RGB => GRAYSCALE
- RGB => BG_YCC
- YCbCr => GRAYSCALE
- YCbCr => BG_YCC
- CMYK => YCCK
- plus the null transforms: GRAYSCALE => GRAYSCALE, RGB => RGB,
- BG_RGB => BG_RGB, YCbCr => YCbCr, BG_YCC => BG_YCC, CMYK => CMYK,
- YCCK => YCCK, and UNKNOWN => UNKNOWN.
- The file interchange format standards (JFIF and Adobe) specify APPn markers
- that indicate the color space of the JPEG file. It is important to ensure
- that these are written correctly, or omitted if the JPEG file's color space
- is not one of the ones supported by the interchange standards.
- jpeg_set_colorspace() will set the compression parameters to include or omit
- the APPn markers properly, so long as it is told the truth about the JPEG
- color space. For example, if you are writing some random 3-component color
- space without conversion, don't try to fake out the library by setting
- in_color_space and jpeg_color_space to JCS_YCbCr; use JCS_UNKNOWN.
- You may want to write an APPn marker of your own devising to identify
- the colorspace --- see "Special markers", below.
- When told that the color space is UNKNOWN, the library will default to using
- luminance-quality compression parameters for all color components. You may
- well want to change these parameters. See the source code for
- jpeg_set_colorspace(), in jcparam.c, for details.
- For decompression, the JPEG file's color space is given in jpeg_color_space,
- and this is transformed to the output color space out_color_space.
- jpeg_read_header's setting of jpeg_color_space can be relied on if the file
- conforms to JFIF or Adobe conventions, but otherwise it is no better than a
- guess. If you know the JPEG file's color space for certain, you can override
- jpeg_read_header's guess by setting jpeg_color_space. jpeg_read_header also
- selects a default output color space based on (its guess of) jpeg_color_space;
- set out_color_space to override this. Again, you must select a supported
- transformation. jdcolor.c currently supports
- YCbCr => RGB
- YCbCr => GRAYSCALE
- BG_YCC => RGB
- BG_YCC => GRAYSCALE
- RGB => GRAYSCALE
- GRAYSCALE => RGB
- YCCK => CMYK
- as well as the null transforms. (Since GRAYSCALE=>RGB is provided, an
- application can force grayscale JPEGs to look like color JPEGs if it only
- wants to handle one case.)
- The two-pass color quantizer, jquant2.c, is specialized to handle RGB data
- (it weights distances appropriately for RGB colors). You'll need to modify
- the code if you want to use it for non-RGB output color spaces. Note that
- jquant2.c is used to map to an application-supplied colormap as well as for
- the normal two-pass colormap selection process.
- CAUTION: it appears that Adobe Photoshop writes inverted data in CMYK JPEG
- files: 0 represents 100% ink coverage, rather than 0% ink as you'd expect.
- This is arguably a bug in Photoshop, but if you need to work with Photoshop
- CMYK files, you will have to deal with it in your application. We cannot
- "fix" this in the library by inverting the data during the CMYK<=>YCCK
- transform, because that would break other applications, notably Ghostscript.
- Photoshop versions prior to 3.0 write EPS files containing JPEG-encoded CMYK
- data in the same inverted-YCCK representation used in bare JPEG files, but
- the surrounding PostScript code performs an inversion using the PS image
- operator. I am told that Photoshop 3.0 will write uninverted YCCK in
- EPS/JPEG files, and will omit the PS-level inversion. (But the data
- polarity used in bare JPEG files will not change in 3.0.) In either case,
- the JPEG library must not invert the data itself, or else Ghostscript would
- read these EPS files incorrectly.
- Error handling
- --------------
- When the default error handler is used, any error detected inside the JPEG
- routines will cause a message to be printed on stderr, followed by exit().
- You can supply your own error handling routines to override this behavior
- and to control the treatment of nonfatal warnings and trace/debug messages.
- The file example.c illustrates the most common case, which is to have the
- application regain control after an error rather than exiting.
- The JPEG library never writes any message directly; it always goes through
- the error handling routines. Three classes of messages are recognized:
- * Fatal errors: the library cannot continue.
- * Warnings: the library can continue, but the data is corrupt, and a
- damaged output image is likely to result.
- * Trace/informational messages. These come with a trace level indicating
- the importance of the message; you can control the verbosity of the
- program by adjusting the maximum trace level that will be displayed.
- You may, if you wish, simply replace the entire JPEG error handling module
- (jerror.c) with your own code. However, you can avoid code duplication by
- only replacing some of the routines depending on the behavior you need.
- This is accomplished by calling jpeg_std_error() as usual, but then overriding
- some of the method pointers in the jpeg_error_mgr struct, as illustrated by
- example.c.
- All of the error handling routines will receive a pointer to the JPEG object
- (a j_common_ptr which points to either a jpeg_compress_struct or a
- jpeg_decompress_struct; if you need to tell which, test the is_decompressor
- field). This struct includes a pointer to the error manager struct in its
- "err" field. Frequently, custom error handler routines will need to access
- additional data which is not known to the JPEG library or the standard error
- handler. The most convenient way to do this is to embed either the JPEG
- object or the jpeg_error_mgr struct in a larger structure that contains
- additional fields; then casting the passed pointer provides access to the
- additional fields. Again, see example.c for one way to do it. (Beginning
- with IJG version 6b, there is also a void pointer "client_data" in each
- JPEG object, which the application can also use to find related data.
- The library does not touch client_data at all.)
- The individual methods that you might wish to override are:
- error_exit (j_common_ptr cinfo)
- Receives control for a fatal error. Information sufficient to
- generate the error message has been stored in cinfo->err; call
- output_message to display it. Control must NOT return to the caller;
- generally this routine will exit() or longjmp() somewhere.
- Typically you would override this routine to get rid of the exit()
- default behavior. Note that if you continue processing, you should
- clean up the JPEG object with jpeg_abort() or jpeg_destroy().
- output_message (j_common_ptr cinfo)
- Actual output of any JPEG message. Override this to send messages
- somewhere other than stderr. Note that this method does not know
- how to generate a message, only where to send it.
- format_message (j_common_ptr cinfo, char * buffer)
- Constructs a readable error message string based on the error info
- stored in cinfo->err. This method is called by output_message. Few
- applications should need to override this method. One possible
- reason for doing so is to implement dynamic switching of error message
- language.
- emit_message (j_common_ptr cinfo, int msg_level)
- Decide whether or not to emit a warning or trace message; if so,
- calls output_message. The main reason for overriding this method
- would be to abort on warnings. msg_level is -1 for warnings,
- 0 and up for trace messages.
- Only error_exit() and emit_message() are called from the rest of the JPEG
- library; the other two are internal to the error handler.
- The actual message texts are stored in an array of strings which is pointed to
- by the field err->jpeg_message_table. The messages are numbered from 0 to
- err->last_jpeg_message, and it is these code numbers that are used in the
- JPEG library code. You could replace the message texts (for instance, with
- messages in French or German) by changing the message table pointer. See
- jerror.h for the default texts. CAUTION: this table will almost certainly
- change or grow from one library version to the next.
- It may be useful for an application to add its own message texts that are
- handled by the same mechanism. The error handler supports a second "add-on"
- message table for this purpose. To define an addon table, set the pointer
- err->addon_message_table and the message numbers err->first_addon_message and
- err->last_addon_message. If you number the addon messages beginning at 1000
- or so, you won't have to worry about conflicts with the library's built-in
- messages. See the sample applications cjpeg/djpeg for an example of using
- addon messages (the addon messages are defined in cderror.h).
- Actual invocation of the error handler is done via macros defined in jerror.h:
- ERREXITn(...) for fatal errors
- WARNMSn(...) for corrupt-data warnings
- TRACEMSn(...) for trace and informational messages.
- These macros store the message code and any additional parameters into the
- error handler struct, then invoke the error_exit() or emit_message() method.
- The variants of each macro are for varying numbers of additional parameters.
- The additional parameters are inserted into the generated message using
- standard printf() format codes.
- See jerror.h and jerror.c for further details.
- Compressed data handling (source and destination managers)
- ----------------------------------------------------------
- The JPEG compression library sends its compressed data to a "destination
- manager" module. The default destination manager just writes the data to a
- memory buffer or to a stdio stream, but you can provide your own manager to
- do something else. Similarly, the decompression library calls a "source
- manager" to obtain the compressed data; you can provide your own source
- manager if you want the data to come from somewhere other than a memory
- buffer or a stdio stream.
- In both cases, compressed data is processed a bufferload at a time: the
- destination or source manager provides a work buffer, and the library invokes
- the manager only when the buffer is filled or emptied. (You could define a
- one-character buffer to force the manager to be invoked for each byte, but
- that would be rather inefficient.) The buffer's size and location are
- controlled by the manager, not by the library. For example, the memory
- source manager just makes the buffer pointer and length point to the original
- data in memory. In this case the buffer-reload procedure will be invoked
- only if the decompressor ran off the end of the datastream, which would
- indicate an erroneous datastream.
- The work buffer is defined as an array of datatype JOCTET, which is generally
- "char" or "unsigned char". On a machine where char is not exactly 8 bits
- wide, you must define JOCTET as a wider data type and then modify the data
- source and destination modules to transcribe the work arrays into 8-bit units
- on external storage.
- A data destination manager struct contains a pointer and count defining the
- next byte to write in the work buffer and the remaining free space:
- JOCTET * next_output_byte; /* => next byte to write in buffer */
- size_t free_in_buffer; /* # of byte spaces remaining in buffer */
- The library increments the pointer and decrements the count until the buffer
- is filled. The manager's empty_output_buffer method must reset the pointer
- and count. The manager is expected to remember the buffer's starting address
- and total size in private fields not visible to the library.
- A data destination manager provides three methods:
- init_destination (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
- Initialize destination. This is called by jpeg_start_compress()
- before any data is actually written. It must initialize
- next_output_byte and free_in_buffer. free_in_buffer must be
- initialized to a positive value.
- empty_output_buffer (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
- This is called whenever the buffer has filled (free_in_buffer
- reaches zero). In typical applications, it should write out the
- *entire* buffer (use the saved start address and buffer length;
- ignore the current state of next_output_byte and free_in_buffer).
- Then reset the pointer & count to the start of the buffer, and
- return TRUE indicating that the buffer has been dumped.
- free_in_buffer must be set to a positive value when TRUE is
- returned. A FALSE return should only be used when I/O suspension is
- desired (this operating mode is discussed in the next section).
- term_destination (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
- Terminate destination --- called by jpeg_finish_compress() after all
- data has been written. In most applications, this must flush any
- data remaining in the buffer. Use either next_output_byte or
- free_in_buffer to determine how much data is in the buffer.
- term_destination() is NOT called by jpeg_abort() or jpeg_destroy(). If you
- want the destination manager to be cleaned up during an abort, you must do it
- yourself.
- You will also need code to create a jpeg_destination_mgr struct, fill in its
- method pointers, and insert a pointer to the struct into the "dest" field of
- the JPEG compression object. This can be done in-line in your setup code if
- you like, but it's probably cleaner to provide a separate routine similar to
- the jpeg_stdio_dest() or jpeg_mem_dest() routines of the supplied destination
- managers.
- Decompression source managers follow a parallel design, but with some
- additional frammishes. The source manager struct contains a pointer and count
- defining the next byte to read from the work buffer and the number of bytes
- remaining:
- const JOCTET * next_input_byte; /* => next byte to read from buffer */
- size_t bytes_in_buffer; /* # of bytes remaining in buffer */
- The library increments the pointer and decrements the count until the buffer
- is emptied. The manager's fill_input_buffer method must reset the pointer and
- count. In most applications, the manager must remember the buffer's starting
- address and total size in private fields not visible to the library.
- A data source manager provides five methods:
- init_source (j_decompress_ptr cinfo)
- Initialize source. This is called by jpeg_read_header() before any
- data is actually read. Unlike init_destination(), it may leave
- bytes_in_buffer set to 0 (in which case a fill_input_buffer() call
- will occur immediately).
- fill_input_buffer (j_decompress_ptr cinfo)
- This is called whenever bytes_in_buffer has reached zero and more
- data is wanted. In typical applications, it should read fresh data
- into the buffer (ignoring the current state of next_input_byte and
- bytes_in_buffer), reset the pointer & count to the start of the
- buffer, and return TRUE indicating that the buffer has been reloaded.
- It is not necessary to fill the buffer entirely, only to obtain at
- least one more byte. bytes_in_buffer MUST be set to a positive value
- if TRUE is returned. A FALSE return should only be used when I/O
- suspension is desired (this mode is discussed in the next section).
- skip_input_data (j_decompress_ptr cinfo, long num_bytes)
- Skip num_bytes worth of data. The buffer pointer and count should
- be advanced over num_bytes input bytes, refilling the buffer as
- needed. This is used to skip over a potentially large amount of
- uninteresting data (such as an APPn marker). In some applications
- it may be possible to optimize away the reading of the skipped data,
- but it's not clear that being smart is worth much trouble; large
- skips are uncommon. bytes_in_buffer may be zero on return.
- A zero or negative skip count should be treated as a no-op.
- resync_to_restart (j_decompress_ptr cinfo, int desired)
- This routine is called only when the decompressor has failed to find
- a restart (RSTn) marker where one is expected. Its mission is to
- find a suitable point for resuming decompression. For most
- applications, we recommend that you just use the default resync
- procedure, jpeg_resync_to_restart(). However, if you are able to back
- up in the input data stream, or if you have a-priori knowledge about
- the likely location of restart markers, you may be able to do better.
- Read the read_restart_marker() and jpeg_resync_to_restart() routines
- in jdmarker.c if you think you'd like to implement your own resync
- procedure.
- term_source (j_decompress_ptr cinfo)
- Terminate source --- called by jpeg_finish_decompress() after all
- data has been read. Often a no-op.
- For both fill_input_buffer() and skip_input_data(), there is no such thing
- as an EOF return. If the end of the file has been reached, the routine has
- a choice of exiting via ERREXIT() or inserting fake data into the buffer.
- In most cases, generating a warning message and inserting a fake EOI marker
- is the best course of action --- this will allow the decompressor to output
- however much of the image is there. In pathological cases, the decompressor
- may swallow the EOI and again demand data ... just keep feeding it fake EOIs.
- jdatasrc.c illustrates the recommended error recovery behavior.
- term_source() is NOT called by jpeg_abort() or jpeg_destroy(). If you want
- the source manager to be cleaned up during an abort, you must do it yourself.
- You will also need code to create a jpeg_source_mgr struct, fill in its method
- pointers, and insert a pointer to the struct into the "src" field of the JPEG
- decompression object. This can be done in-line in your setup code if you
- like, but it's probably cleaner to provide a separate routine similar to the
- jpeg_stdio_src() or jpeg_mem_src() routines of the supplied source managers.
- For more information, consult the memory and stdio source and destination
- managers in jdatasrc.c and jdatadst.c.
- I/O suspension
- --------------
- Some applications need to use the JPEG library as an incremental memory-to-
- memory filter: when the compressed data buffer is filled or emptied, they want
- control to return to the outer loop, rather than expecting that the buffer can
- be emptied or reloaded within the data source/destination manager subroutine.
- The library supports this need by providing an "I/O suspension" mode, which we
- describe in this section.
- The I/O suspension mode is not a panacea: nothing is guaranteed about the
- maximum amount of time spent in any one call to the library, so it will not
- eliminate response-time problems in single-threaded applications. If you
- need guaranteed response time, we suggest you "bite the bullet" and implement
- a real multi-tasking capability.
- To use I/O suspension, cooperation is needed between the calling application
- and the data source or destination manager; you will always need a custom
- source/destination manager. (Please read the previous section if you haven't
- already.) The basic idea is that the empty_output_buffer() or
- fill_input_buffer() routine is a no-op, merely returning FALSE to indicate
- that it has done nothing. Upon seeing this, the JPEG library suspends
- operation and returns to its caller. The surrounding application is
- responsible for emptying or refilling the work buffer before calling the
- JPEG library again.
- Compression suspension:
- For compression suspension, use an empty_output_buffer() routine that returns
- FALSE; typically it will not do anything else. This will cause the
- compressor to return to the caller of jpeg_write_scanlines(), with the return
- value indicating that not all the supplied scanlines have been accepted.
- The application must make more room in the output buffer, adjust the output
- buffer pointer/count appropriately, and then call jpeg_write_scanlines()
- again, pointing to the first unconsumed scanline.
- When forced to suspend, the compressor will backtrack to a convenient stopping
- point (usually the start of the current MCU); it will regenerate some output
- data when restarted. Therefore, although empty_output_buffer() is only
- called when the buffer is filled, you should NOT write out the entire buffer
- after a suspension. Write only the data up to the current position of
- next_output_byte/free_in_buffer. The data beyond that point will be
- regenerated after resumption.
- Because of the backtracking behavior, a good-size output buffer is essential
- for efficiency; you don't want the compressor to suspend often. (In fact, an
- overly small buffer could lead to infinite looping, if a single MCU required
- more data than would fit in the buffer.) We recommend a buffer of at least
- several Kbytes. You may want to insert explicit code to ensure that you don't
- call jpeg_write_scanlines() unless there is a reasonable amount of space in
- the output buffer; in other words, flush the buffer before trying to compress
- more data.
- The compressor does not allow suspension while it is trying to write JPEG
- markers at the beginning and end of the file. This means that:
- * At the beginning of a compression operation, there must be enough free
- space in the output buffer to hold the header markers (typically 600 or
- so bytes). The recommended buffer size is bigger than this anyway, so
- this is not a problem as long as you start with an empty buffer. However,
- this restriction might catch you if you insert large special markers, such
- as a JFIF thumbnail image, without flushing the buffer afterwards.
- * When you call jpeg_finish_compress(), there must be enough space in the
- output buffer to emit any buffered data and the final EOI marker. In the
- current implementation, half a dozen bytes should suffice for this, but
- for safety's sake we recommend ensuring that at least 100 bytes are free
- before calling jpeg_finish_compress().
- A more significant restriction is that jpeg_finish_compress() cannot suspend.
- This means you cannot use suspension with multi-pass operating modes, namely
- Huffman code optimization and multiple-scan output. Those modes write the
- whole file during jpeg_finish_compress(), which will certainly result in
- buffer overrun. (Note that this restriction applies only to compression,
- not decompression. The decompressor supports input suspension in all of its
- operating modes.)
- Decompression suspension:
- For decompression suspension, use a fill_input_buffer() routine that simply
- returns FALSE (except perhaps during error recovery, as discussed below).
- This will cause the decompressor to return to its caller with an indication
- that suspension has occurred. This can happen at four places:
- * jpeg_read_header(): will return JPEG_SUSPENDED.
- * jpeg_start_decompress(): will return FALSE, rather than its usual TRUE.
- * jpeg_read_scanlines(): will return the number of scanlines already
- completed (possibly 0).
- * jpeg_finish_decompress(): will return FALSE, rather than its usual TRUE.
- The surrounding application must recognize these cases, load more data into
- the input buffer, and repeat the call. In the case of jpeg_read_scanlines(),
- increment the passed pointers past any scanlines successfully read.
- Just as with compression, the decompressor will typically backtrack to a
- convenient restart point before suspending. When fill_input_buffer() is
- called, next_input_byte/bytes_in_buffer point to the current restart point,
- which is where the decompressor will backtrack to if FALSE is returned.
- The data beyond that position must NOT be discarded if you suspend; it needs
- to be re-read upon resumption. In most implementations, you'll need to shift
- this data down to the start of your work buffer and then load more data after
- it. Again, this behavior means that a several-Kbyte work buffer is essential
- for decent performance; furthermore, you should load a reasonable amount of
- new data before resuming decompression. (If you loaded, say, only one new
- byte each time around, you could waste a LOT of cycles.)
- The skip_input_data() source manager routine requires special care in a
- suspension scenario. This routine is NOT granted the ability to suspend the
- decompressor; it can decrement bytes_in_buffer to zero, but no more. If the
- requested skip distance exceeds the amount of data currently in the input
- buffer, then skip_input_data() must set bytes_in_buffer to zero and record the
- additional skip distance somewhere else. The decompressor will immediately
- call fill_input_buffer(), which should return FALSE, which will cause a
- suspension return. The surrounding application must then arrange to discard
- the recorded number of bytes before it resumes loading the input buffer.
- (Yes, this design is rather baroque, but it avoids complexity in the far more
- common case where a non-suspending source manager is used.)
- If the input data has been exhausted, we recommend that you emit a warning
- and insert dummy EOI markers just as a non-suspending data source manager
- would do. This can be handled either in the surrounding application logic or
- within fill_input_buffer(); the latter is probably more efficient. If
- fill_input_buffer() knows that no more data is available, it can set the
- pointer/count to point to a dummy EOI marker and then return TRUE just as
- though it had read more data in a non-suspending situation.
- The decompressor does not attempt to suspend within standard JPEG markers;
- instead it will backtrack to the start of the marker and reprocess the whole
- marker next time. Hence the input buffer must be large enough to hold the
- longest standard marker in the file. Standard JPEG markers should normally
- not exceed a few hundred bytes each (DHT tables are typically the longest).
- We recommend at least a 2K buffer for performance reasons, which is much
- larger than any correct marker is likely to be. For robustness against
- damaged marker length counts, you may wish to insert a test in your
- application for the case that the input buffer is completely full and yet
- the decoder has suspended without consuming any data --- otherwise, if this
- situation did occur, it would lead to an endless loop. (The library can't
- provide this test since it has no idea whether "the buffer is full", or
- even whether there is a fixed-size input buffer.)
- The input buffer would need to be 64K to allow for arbitrary COM or APPn
- markers, but these are handled specially: they are either saved into allocated
- memory, or skipped over by calling skip_input_data(). In the former case,
- suspension is handled correctly, and in the latter case, the problem of
- buffer overrun is placed on skip_input_data's shoulders, as explained above.
- Note that if you provide your own marker handling routine for large markers,
- you should consider how to deal with buffer overflow.
- Multiple-buffer management:
- In some applications it is desirable to store the compressed data in a linked
- list of buffer areas, so as to avoid data copying. This can be handled by
- having empty_output_buffer() or fill_input_buffer() set the pointer and count
- to reference the next available buffer; FALSE is returned only if no more
- buffers are available. Although seemingly straightforward, there is a
- pitfall in this approach: the backtrack that occurs when FALSE is returned
- could back up into an earlier buffer. For example, when fill_input_buffer()
- is called, the current pointer & count indicate the backtrack restart point.
- Since fill_input_buffer() will set the pointer and count to refer to a new
- buffer, the restart position must be saved somewhere else. Suppose a second
- call to fill_input_buffer() occurs in the same library call, and no
- additional input data is available, so fill_input_buffer must return FALSE.
- If the JPEG library has not moved the pointer/count forward in the current
- buffer, then *the correct restart point is the saved position in the prior
- buffer*. Prior buffers may be discarded only after the library establishes
- a restart point within a later buffer. Similar remarks apply for output into
- a chain of buffers.
- The library will never attempt to backtrack over a skip_input_data() call,
- so any skipped data can be permanently discarded. You still have to deal
- with the case of skipping not-yet-received data, however.
- It's much simpler to use only a single buffer; when fill_input_buffer() is
- called, move any unconsumed data (beyond the current pointer/count) down to
- the beginning of this buffer and then load new data into the remaining buffer
- space. This approach requires a little more data copying but is far easier
- to get right.
- Progressive JPEG support
- ------------------------
- Progressive JPEG rearranges the stored data into a series of scans of
- increasing quality. In situations where a JPEG file is transmitted across a
- slow communications link, a decoder can generate a low-quality image very
- quickly from the first scan, then gradually improve the displayed quality as
- more scans are received. The final image after all scans are complete is
- identical to that of a regular (sequential) JPEG file of the same quality
- setting. Progressive JPEG files are often slightly smaller than equivalent
- sequential JPEG files, but the possibility of incremental display is the main
- reason for using progressive JPEG.
- The IJG encoder library generates progressive JPEG files when given a
- suitable "scan script" defining how to divide the data into scans.
- Creation of progressive JPEG files is otherwise transparent to the encoder.
- Progressive JPEG files can also be read transparently by the decoder library.
- If the decoding application simply uses the library as defined above, it
- will receive a final decoded image without any indication that the file was
- progressive. Of course, this approach does not allow incremental display.
- To perform incremental display, an application needs to use the decoder
- library's "buffered-image" mode, in which it receives a decoded image
- multiple times.
- Each displayed scan requires about as much work to decode as a full JPEG
- image of the same size, so the decoder must be fairly fast in relation to the
- data transmission rate in order to make incremental display useful. However,
- it is possible to skip displaying the image and simply add the incoming bits
- to the decoder's coefficient buffer. This is fast because only Huffman
- decoding need be done, not IDCT, upsampling, colorspace conversion, etc.
- The IJG decoder library allows the application to switch dynamically between
- displaying the image and simply absorbing the incoming bits. A properly
- coded application can automatically adapt the number of display passes to
- suit the time available as the image is received. Also, a final
- higher-quality display cycle can be performed from the buffered data after
- the end of the file is reached.
- Progressive compression:
- To create a progressive JPEG file (or a multiple-scan sequential JPEG file),
- set the scan_info cinfo field to point to an array of scan descriptors, and
- perform compression as usual. Instead of constructing your own scan list,
- you can call the jpeg_simple_progression() helper routine to create a
- recommended progression sequence; this method should be used by all
- applications that don't want to get involved in the nitty-gritty of
- progressive scan sequence design. (If you want to provide user control of
- scan sequences, you may wish to borrow the scan script reading code found
- in rdswitch.c, so that you can read scan script files just like cjpeg's.)
- When scan_info is not NULL, the compression library will store DCT'd data
- into a buffer array as jpeg_write_scanlines() is called, and will emit all
- the requested scans during jpeg_finish_compress(). This implies that
- multiple-scan output cannot be created with a suspending data destination
- manager, since jpeg_finish_compress() does not support suspension. We
- should also note that the compressor currently forces Huffman optimization
- mode when creating a progressive JPEG file, because the default Huffman
- tables are unsuitable for progressive files.
- Progressive decompression:
- When buffered-image mode is not used, the decoder library will read all of
- a multi-scan file during jpeg_start_decompress(), so that it can provide a
- final decoded image. (Here "multi-scan" means either progressive or
- multi-scan sequential.) This makes multi-scan files transparent to the
- decoding application. However, existing applications that used suspending
- input with version 5 of the IJG library will need to be modified to check
- for a suspension return from jpeg_start_decompress().
- To perform incremental display, an application must use the library's
- buffered-image mode. This is described in the next section.
- Buffered-image mode
- -------------------
- In buffered-image mode, the library stores the partially decoded image in a
- coefficient buffer, from which it can be read out as many times as desired.
- This mode is typically used for incremental display of progressive JPEG files,
- but it can be used with any JPEG file. Each scan of a progressive JPEG file
- adds more data (more detail) to the buffered image. The application can
- display in lockstep with the source file (one display pass per input scan),
- or it can allow input processing to outrun display processing. By making
- input and display processing run independently, it is possible for the
- application to adapt progressive display to a wide range of data transmission
- rates.
- The basic control flow for buffered-image decoding is
- jpeg_create_decompress()
- set data source
- jpeg_read_header()
- set overall decompression parameters
- cinfo.buffered_image = TRUE; /* select buffered-image mode */
- jpeg_start_decompress()
- for (each output pass) {
- adjust output decompression parameters if required
- jpeg_start_output() /* start a new output pass */
- for (all scanlines in image) {
- jpeg_read_scanlines()
- display scanlines
- }
- jpeg_finish_output() /* terminate output pass */
- }
- jpeg_finish_decompress()
- jpeg_destroy_decompress()
- This differs from ordinary unbuffered decoding in that there is an additional
- level of looping. The application can choose how many output passes to make
- and how to display each pass.
- The simplest approach to displaying progressive images is to do one display
- pass for each scan appearing in the input file. In this case the outer loop
- condition is typically
- while (! jpeg_input_complete(&cinfo))
- and the start-output call should read
- jpeg_start_output(&cinfo, cinfo.input_scan_number);
- The second parameter to jpeg_start_output() indicates which scan of the input
- file is to be displayed; the scans are numbered starting at 1 for this
- purpose. (You can use a loop counter starting at 1 if you like, but using
- the library's input scan counter is easier.) The library automatically reads
- data as necessary to complete each requested scan, and jpeg_finish_output()
- advances to the next scan or end-of-image marker (hence input_scan_number
- will be incremented by the time control arrives back at jpeg_start_output()).
- With this technique, data is read from the input file only as needed, and
- input and output processing run in lockstep.
- After reading the final scan and reaching the end of the input file, the
- buffered image remains available; it can be read additional times by
- repeating the jpeg_start_output()/jpeg_read_scanlines()/jpeg_finish_output()
- sequence. For example, a useful technique is to use fast one-pass color
- quantization for display passes made while the image is arriving, followed by
- a final display pass using two-pass quantization for highest quality. This
- is done by changing the library parameters before the final output pass.
- Changing parameters between passes is discussed in detail below.
- In general the last scan of a progressive file cannot be recognized as such
- until after it is read, so a post-input display pass is the best approach if
- you want special processing in the final pass.
- When done with the image, be sure to call jpeg_finish_decompress() to release
- the buffered image (or just use jpeg_destroy_decompress()).
- If input data arrives faster than it can be displayed, the application can
- cause the library to decode input data in advance of what's needed to produce
- output. This is done by calling the routine jpeg_consume_input().
- The return value is one of the following:
- JPEG_REACHED_SOS: reached an SOS marker (the start of a new scan)
- JPEG_REACHED_EOI: reached the EOI marker (end of image)
- JPEG_ROW_COMPLETED: completed reading one MCU row of compressed data
- JPEG_SCAN_COMPLETED: completed reading last MCU row of current scan
- JPEG_SUSPENDED: suspended before completing any of the above
- (JPEG_SUSPENDED can occur only if a suspending data source is used.) This
- routine can be called at any time after initializing the JPEG object. It
- reads some additional data and returns when one of the indicated significant
- events occurs. (If called after the EOI marker is reached, it will
- immediately return JPEG_REACHED_EOI without attempting to read more data.)
- The library's output processing will automatically call jpeg_consume_input()
- whenever the output processing overtakes the input; thus, simple lockstep
- display requires no direct calls to jpeg_consume_input(). But by adding
- calls to jpeg_consume_input(), you can absorb data in advance of what is
- being displayed. This has two benefits:
- * You can limit buildup of unprocessed data in your input buffer.
- * You can eliminate extra display passes by paying attention to the
- state of the library's input processing.
- The first of these benefits only requires interspersing calls to
- jpeg_consume_input() with your display operations and any other processing
- you may be doing. To avoid wasting cycles due to backtracking, it's best to
- call jpeg_consume_input() only after a hundred or so new bytes have arrived.
- This is discussed further under "I/O suspension", above. (Note: the JPEG
- library currently is not thread-safe. You must not call jpeg_consume_input()
- from one thread of control if a different library routine is working on the
- same JPEG object in another thread.)
- When input arrives fast enough that more than one new scan is available
- before you start a new output pass, you may as well skip the output pass
- corresponding to the completed scan. This occurs for free if you pass
- cinfo.input_scan_number as the target scan number to jpeg_start_output().
- The input_scan_number field is simply the index of the scan currently being
- consumed by the input processor. You can ensure that this is up-to-date by
- emptying the input buffer just before calling jpeg_start_output(): call
- jpeg_consume_input() repeatedly until it returns JPEG_SUSPENDED or
- JPEG_REACHED_EOI.
- The target scan number passed to jpeg_start_output() is saved in the
- cinfo.output_scan_number field. The library's output processing calls
- jpeg_consume_input() whenever the current input scan number and row within
- that scan is less than or equal to the current output scan number and row.
- Thus, input processing can "get ahead" of the output processing but is not
- allowed to "fall behind". You can achieve several different effects by
- manipulating this interlock rule. For example, if you pass a target scan
- number greater than the current input scan number, the output processor will
- wait until that scan starts to arrive before producing any output. (To avoid
- an infinite loop, the target scan number is automatically reset to the last
- scan number when the end of image is reached. Thus, if you specify a large
- target scan number, the library will just absorb the entire input file and
- then perform an output pass. This is effectively the same as what
- jpeg_start_decompress() does when you don't select buffered-image mode.)
- When you pass a target scan number equal to the current input scan number,
- the image is displayed no faster than the current input scan arrives. The
- final possibility is to pass a target scan number less than the current input
- scan number; this disables the input/output interlock and causes the output
- processor to simply display whatever it finds in the image buffer, without
- waiting for input. (However, the library will not accept a target scan
- number less than one, so you can't avoid waiting for the first scan.)
- When data is arriving faster than the output display processing can advance
- through the image, jpeg_consume_input() will store data into the buffered
- image beyond the point at which the output processing is reading data out
- again. If the input arrives fast enough, it may "wrap around" the buffer to
- the point where the input is more than one whole scan ahead of the output.
- If the output processing simply proceeds through its display pass without
- paying attention to the input, the effect seen on-screen is that the lower
- part of the image is one or more scans better in quality than the upper part.
- Then, when the next output scan is started, you have a choice of what target
- scan number to use. The recommended choice is to use the current input scan
- number at that time, which implies that you've skipped the output scans
- corresponding to the input scans that were completed while you processed the
- previous output scan. In this way, the decoder automatically adapts its
- speed to the arriving data, by skipping output scans as necessary to keep up
- with the arriving data.
- When using this strategy, you'll want to be sure that you perform a final
- output pass after receiving all the data; otherwise your last display may not
- be full quality across the whole screen. So the right outer loop logic is
- something like this:
- do {
- absorb any waiting input by calling jpeg_consume_input()
- final_pass = jpeg_input_complete(&cinfo);
- adjust output decompression parameters if required
- jpeg_start_output(&cinfo, cinfo.input_scan_number);
- ...
- jpeg_finish_output()
- } while (! final_pass);
- rather than quitting as soon as jpeg_input_complete() returns TRUE. This
- arrangement makes it simple to use higher-quality decoding parameters
- for the final pass. But if you don't want to use special parameters for
- the final pass, the right loop logic is like this:
- for (;;) {
- absorb any waiting input by calling jpeg_consume_input()
- jpeg_start_output(&cinfo, cinfo.input_scan_number);
- ...
- jpeg_finish_output()
- if (jpeg_input_complete(&cinfo) &&
- cinfo.input_scan_number == cinfo.output_scan_number)
- break;
- }
- In this case you don't need to know in advance whether an output pass is to
- be the last one, so it's not necessary to have reached EOF before starting
- the final output pass; rather, what you want to test is whether the output
- pass was performed in sync with the final input scan. This form of the loop
- will avoid an extra output pass whenever the decoder is able (or nearly able)
- to keep up with the incoming data.
- When the data transmission speed is high, you might begin a display pass,
- then find that much or all of the file has arrived before you can complete
- the pass. (You can detect this by noting the JPEG_REACHED_EOI return code
- from jpeg_consume_input(), or equivalently by testing jpeg_input_complete().)
- In this situation you may wish to abort the current display pass and start a
- new one using the newly arrived information. To do so, just call
- jpeg_finish_output() and then start a new pass with jpeg_start_output().
- A variant strategy is to abort and restart display if more than one complete
- scan arrives during an output pass; this can be detected by noting
- JPEG_REACHED_SOS returns and/or examining cinfo.input_scan_number. This
- idea should be employed with caution, however, since the display process
- might never get to the bottom of the image before being aborted, resulting
- in the lower part of the screen being several passes worse than the upper.
- In most cases it's probably best to abort an output pass only if the whole
- file has arrived and you want to begin the final output pass immediately.
- When receiving data across a communication link, we recommend always using
- the current input scan number for the output target scan number; if a
- higher-quality final pass is to be done, it should be started (aborting any
- incomplete output pass) as soon as the end of file is received. However,
- many other strategies are possible. For example, the application can examine
- the parameters of the current input scan and decide whether to display it or
- not. If the scan contains only chroma data, one might choose not to use it
- as the target scan, expecting that the scan will be small and will arrive
- quickly. To skip to the next scan, call jpeg_consume_input() until it
- returns JPEG_REACHED_SOS or JPEG_REACHED_EOI. Or just use the next higher
- number as the target scan for jpeg_start_output(); but that method doesn't
- let you inspect the next scan's parameters before deciding to display it.
- In buffered-image mode, jpeg_start_decompress() never performs input and
- thus never suspends. An application that uses input suspension with
- buffered-image mode must be prepared for suspension returns from these
- routines:
- * jpeg_start_output() performs input only if you request 2-pass quantization
- and the target scan isn't fully read yet. (This is discussed below.)
- * jpeg_read_scanlines(), as always, returns the number of scanlines that it
- was able to produce before suspending.
- * jpeg_finish_output() will read any markers following the target scan,
- up to the end of the file or the SOS marker that begins another scan.
- (But it reads no input if jpeg_consume_input() has already reached the
- end of the file or a SOS marker beyond the target output scan.)
- * jpeg_finish_decompress() will read until the end of file, and thus can
- suspend if the end hasn't already been reached (as can be tested by
- calling jpeg_input_complete()).
- jpeg_start_output(), jpeg_finish_output(), and jpeg_finish_decompress()
- all return TRUE if they completed their tasks, FALSE if they had to suspend.
- In the event of a FALSE return, the application must load more input data
- and repeat the call. Applications that use non-suspending data sources need
- not check the return values of these three routines.
- It is possible to change decoding parameters between output passes in the
- buffered-image mode. The decoder library currently supports only very
- limited changes of parameters. ONLY THE FOLLOWING parameter changes are
- allowed after jpeg_start_decompress() is called:
- * dct_method can be changed before each call to jpeg_start_output().
- For example, one could use a fast DCT method for early scans, changing
- to a higher quality method for the final scan.
- * dither_mode can be changed before each call to jpeg_start_output();
- of course this has no impact if not using color quantization. Typically
- one would use ordered dither for initial passes, then switch to
- Floyd-Steinberg dither for the final pass. Caution: changing dither mode
- can cause more memory to be allocated by the library. Although the amount
- of memory involved is not large (a scanline or so), it may cause the
- initial max_memory_to_use specification to be exceeded, which in the worst
- case would result in an out-of-memory failure.
- * do_block_smoothing can be changed before each call to jpeg_start_output().
- This setting is relevant only when decoding a progressive JPEG image.
- During the first DC-only scan, block smoothing provides a very "fuzzy" look
- instead of the very "blocky" look seen without it; which is better seems a
- matter of personal taste. But block smoothing is nearly always a win
- during later stages, especially when decoding a successive-approximation
- image: smoothing helps to hide the slight blockiness that otherwise shows
- up on smooth gradients until the lowest coefficient bits are sent.
- * Color quantization mode can be changed under the rules described below.
- You *cannot* change between full-color and quantized output (because that
- would alter the required I/O buffer sizes), but you can change which
- quantization method is used.
- When generating color-quantized output, changing quantization method is a
- very useful way of switching between high-speed and high-quality display.
- The library allows you to change among its three quantization methods:
- 1. Single-pass quantization to a fixed color cube.
- Selected by cinfo.two_pass_quantize = FALSE and cinfo.colormap = NULL.
- 2. Single-pass quantization to an application-supplied colormap.
- Selected by setting cinfo.colormap to point to the colormap (the value of
- two_pass_quantize is ignored); also set cinfo.actual_number_of_colors.
- 3. Two-pass quantization to a colormap chosen specifically for the image.
- Selected by cinfo.two_pass_quantize = TRUE and cinfo.colormap = NULL.
- (This is the default setting selected by jpeg_read_header, but it is
- probably NOT what you want for the first pass of progressive display!)
- These methods offer successively better quality and lesser speed. However,
- only the first method is available for quantizing in non-RGB color spaces.
- IMPORTANT: because the different quantizer methods have very different
- working-storage requirements, the library requires you to indicate which
- one(s) you intend to use before you call jpeg_start_decompress(). (If we did
- not require this, the max_memory_to_use setting would be a complete fiction.)
- You do this by setting one or more of these three cinfo fields to TRUE:
- enable_1pass_quant Fixed color cube colormap
- enable_external_quant Externally-supplied colormap
- enable_2pass_quant Two-pass custom colormap
- All three are initialized FALSE by jpeg_read_header(). But
- jpeg_start_decompress() automatically sets TRUE the one selected by the
- current two_pass_quantize and colormap settings, so you only need to set the
- enable flags for any other quantization methods you plan to change to later.
- After setting the enable flags correctly at jpeg_start_decompress() time, you
- can change to any enabled quantization method by setting two_pass_quantize
- and colormap properly just before calling jpeg_start_output(). The following
- special rules apply:
- 1. You must explicitly set cinfo.colormap to NULL when switching to 1-pass
- or 2-pass mode from a different mode, or when you want the 2-pass
- quantizer to be re-run to generate a new colormap.
- 2. To switch to an external colormap, or to change to a different external
- colormap than was used on the prior pass, you must call
- jpeg_new_colormap() after setting cinfo.colormap.
- NOTE: if you want to use the same colormap as was used in the prior pass,
- you should not do either of these things. This will save some nontrivial
- switchover costs.
- (These requirements exist because cinfo.colormap will always be non-NULL
- after completing a prior output pass, since both the 1-pass and 2-pass
- quantizers set it to point to their output colormaps. Thus you have to
- do one of these two things to notify the library that something has changed.
- Yup, it's a bit klugy, but it's necessary to do it this way for backwards
- compatibility.)
- Note that in buffered-image mode, the library generates any requested colormap
- during jpeg_start_output(), not during jpeg_start_decompress().
- When using two-pass quantization, jpeg_start_output() makes a pass over the
- buffered image to determine the optimum color map; it therefore may take a
- significant amount of time, whereas ordinarily it does little work. The
- progress monitor hook is called during this pass, if defined. It is also
- important to realize that if the specified target scan number is greater than
- or equal to the current input scan number, jpeg_start_output() will attempt
- to consume input as it makes this pass. If you use a suspending data source,
- you need to check for a FALSE return from jpeg_start_output() under these
- conditions. The combination of 2-pass quantization and a not-yet-fully-read
- target scan is the only case in which jpeg_start_output() will consume input.
- Application authors who support buffered-image mode may be tempted to use it
- for all JPEG images, even single-scan ones. This will work, but it is
- inefficient: there is no need to create an image-sized coefficient buffer for
- single-scan images. Requesting buffered-image mode for such an image wastes
- memory. Worse, it can cost time on large images, since the buffered data has
- to be swapped out or written to a temporary file. If you are concerned about
- maximum performance on baseline JPEG files, you should use buffered-image
- mode only when the incoming file actually has multiple scans. This can be
- tested by calling jpeg_has_multiple_scans(), which will return a correct
- result at any time after jpeg_read_header() completes.
- It is also worth noting that when you use jpeg_consume_input() to let input
- processing get ahead of output processing, the resulting pattern of access to
- the coefficient buffer is quite nonsequential. It's best to use the memory
- manager jmemnobs.c if you can (ie, if you have enough real or virtual main
- memory). If not, at least make sure that max_memory_to_use is set as high as
- possible. If the JPEG memory manager has to use a temporary file, you will
- probably see a lot of disk traffic and poor performance. (This could be
- improved with additional work on the memory manager, but we haven't gotten
- around to it yet.)
- In some applications it may be convenient to use jpeg_consume_input() for all
- input processing, including reading the initial markers; that is, you may
- wish to call jpeg_consume_input() instead of jpeg_read_header() during
- startup. This works, but note that you must check for JPEG_REACHED_SOS and
- JPEG_REACHED_EOI return codes as the equivalent of jpeg_read_header's codes.
- Once the first SOS marker has been reached, you must call
- jpeg_start_decompress() before jpeg_consume_input() will consume more input;
- it'll just keep returning JPEG_REACHED_SOS until you do. If you read a
- tables-only file this way, jpeg_consume_input() will return JPEG_REACHED_EOI
- without ever returning JPEG_REACHED_SOS; be sure to check for this case.
- If this happens, the decompressor will not read any more input until you call
- jpeg_abort() to reset it. It is OK to call jpeg_consume_input() even when not
- using buffered-image mode, but in that case it's basically a no-op after the
- initial markers have been read: it will just return JPEG_SUSPENDED.
- Abbreviated datastreams and multiple images
- -------------------------------------------
- A JPEG compression or decompression object can be reused to process multiple
- images. This saves a small amount of time per image by eliminating the
- "create" and "destroy" operations, but that isn't the real purpose of the
- feature. Rather, reuse of an object provides support for abbreviated JPEG
- datastreams. Object reuse can also simplify processing a series of images in
- a single input or output file. This section explains these features.
- A JPEG file normally contains several hundred bytes worth of quantization
- and Huffman tables. In a situation where many images will be stored or
- transmitted with identical tables, this may represent an annoying overhead.
- The JPEG standard therefore permits tables to be omitted. The standard
- defines three classes of JPEG datastreams:
- * "Interchange" datastreams contain an image and all tables needed to decode
- the image. These are the usual kind of JPEG file.
- * "Abbreviated image" datastreams contain an image, but are missing some or
- all of the tables needed to decode that image.
- * "Abbreviated table specification" (henceforth "tables-only") datastreams
- contain only table specifications.
- To decode an abbreviated image, it is necessary to load the missing table(s)
- into the decoder beforehand. This can be accomplished by reading a separate
- tables-only file. A variant scheme uses a series of images in which the first
- image is an interchange (complete) datastream, while subsequent ones are
- abbreviated and rely on the tables loaded by the first image. It is assumed
- that once the decoder has read a table, it will remember that table until a
- new definition for the same table number is encountered.
- It is the application designer's responsibility to figure out how to associate
- the correct tables with an abbreviated image. While abbreviated datastreams
- can be useful in a closed environment, their use is strongly discouraged in
- any situation where data exchange with other applications might be needed.
- Caveat designer.
- The JPEG library provides support for reading and writing any combination of
- tables-only datastreams and abbreviated images. In both compression and
- decompression objects, a quantization or Huffman table will be retained for
- the lifetime of the object, unless it is overwritten by a new table definition.
- To create abbreviated image datastreams, it is only necessary to tell the
- compressor not to emit some or all of the tables it is using. Each
- quantization and Huffman table struct contains a boolean field "sent_table",
- which normally is initialized to FALSE. For each table used by the image, the
- header-writing process emits the table and sets sent_table = TRUE unless it is
- already TRUE. (In normal usage, this prevents outputting the same table
- definition multiple times, as would otherwise occur because the chroma
- components typically share tables.) Thus, setting this field to TRUE before
- calling jpeg_start_compress() will prevent the table from being written at
- all.
- If you want to create a "pure" abbreviated image file containing no tables,
- just call "jpeg_suppress_tables(&cinfo, TRUE)" after constructing all the
- tables. If you want to emit some but not all tables, you'll need to set the
- individual sent_table fields directly.
- To create an abbreviated image, you must also call jpeg_start_compress()
- with a second parameter of FALSE, not TRUE. Otherwise jpeg_start_compress()
- will force all the sent_table fields to FALSE. (This is a safety feature to
- prevent abbreviated images from being created accidentally.)
- To create a tables-only file, perform the same parameter setup that you
- normally would, but instead of calling jpeg_start_compress() and so on, call
- jpeg_write_tables(&cinfo). This will write an abbreviated datastream
- containing only SOI, DQT and/or DHT markers, and EOI. All the quantization
- and Huffman tables that are currently defined in the compression object will
- be emitted unless their sent_tables flag is already TRUE, and then all the
- sent_tables flags will be set TRUE.
- A sure-fire way to create matching tables-only and abbreviated image files
- is to proceed as follows:
- create JPEG compression object
- set JPEG parameters
- set destination to tables-only file
- jpeg_write_tables(&cinfo);
- set destination to image file
- jpeg_start_compress(&cinfo, FALSE);
- write data...
- jpeg_finish_compress(&cinfo);
- Since the JPEG parameters are not altered between writing the table file and
- the abbreviated image file, the same tables are sure to be used. Of course,
- you can repeat the jpeg_start_compress() ... jpeg_finish_compress() sequence
- many times to produce many abbreviated image files matching the table file.
- You cannot suppress output of the computed Huffman tables when Huffman
- optimization is selected. (If you could, there'd be no way to decode the
- image...) Generally, you don't want to set optimize_coding = TRUE when
- you are trying to produce abbreviated files.
- In some cases you might want to compress an image using tables which are
- not stored in the application, but are defined in an interchange or
- tables-only file readable by the application. This can be done by setting up
- a JPEG decompression object to read the specification file, then copying the
- tables into your compression object. See jpeg_copy_critical_parameters()
- for an example of copying quantization tables.
- To read abbreviated image files, you simply need to load the proper tables
- into the decompression object before trying to read the abbreviated image.
- If the proper tables are stored in the application program, you can just
- allocate the table structs and fill in their contents directly. For example,
- to load a fixed quantization table into table slot "n":
- if (cinfo.quant_tbl_ptrs[n] == NULL)
- cinfo.quant_tbl_ptrs[n] = jpeg_alloc_quant_table((j_common_ptr) &cinfo);
- quant_ptr = cinfo.quant_tbl_ptrs[n]; /* quant_ptr is JQUANT_TBL* */
- for (i = 0; i < 64; i++) {
- /* Qtable[] is desired quantization table, in natural array order */
- quant_ptr->quantval[i] = Qtable[i];
- }
- Code to load a fixed Huffman table is typically (for AC table "n"):
- if (cinfo.ac_huff_tbl_ptrs[n] == NULL)
- cinfo.ac_huff_tbl_ptrs[n] = jpeg_alloc_huff_table((j_common_ptr) &cinfo);
- huff_ptr = cinfo.ac_huff_tbl_ptrs[n]; /* huff_ptr is JHUFF_TBL* */
- for (i = 1; i <= 16; i++) {
- /* counts[i] is number of Huffman codes of length i bits, i=1..16 */
- huff_ptr->bits[i] = counts[i];
- }
- for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
- /* symbols[] is the list of Huffman symbols, in code-length order */
- huff_ptr->huffval[i] = symbols[i];
- }
- (Note that trying to set cinfo.quant_tbl_ptrs[n] to point directly at a
- constant JQUANT_TBL object is not safe. If the incoming file happened to
- contain a quantization table definition, your master table would get
- overwritten! Instead allocate a working table copy and copy the master table
- into it, as illustrated above. Ditto for Huffman tables, of course.)
- You might want to read the tables from a tables-only file, rather than
- hard-wiring them into your application. The jpeg_read_header() call is
- sufficient to read a tables-only file. You must pass a second parameter of
- FALSE to indicate that you do not require an image to be present. Thus, the
- typical scenario is
- create JPEG decompression object
- set source to tables-only file
- jpeg_read_header(&cinfo, FALSE);
- set source to abbreviated image file
- jpeg_read_header(&cinfo, TRUE);
- set decompression parameters
- jpeg_start_decompress(&cinfo);
- read data...
- jpeg_finish_decompress(&cinfo);
- In some cases, you may want to read a file without knowing whether it contains
- an image or just tables. In that case, pass FALSE and check the return value
- from jpeg_read_header(): it will be JPEG_HEADER_OK if an image was found,
- JPEG_HEADER_TABLES_ONLY if only tables were found. (A third return value,
- JPEG_SUSPENDED, is possible when using a suspending data source manager.)
- Note that jpeg_read_header() will not complain if you read an abbreviated
- image for which you haven't loaded the missing tables; the missing-table check
- occurs later, in jpeg_start_decompress().
- It is possible to read a series of images from a single source file by
- repeating the jpeg_read_header() ... jpeg_finish_decompress() sequence,
- without releasing/recreating the JPEG object or the data source module.
- (If you did reinitialize, any partial bufferload left in the data source
- buffer at the end of one image would be discarded, causing you to lose the
- start of the next image.) When you use this method, stored tables are
- automatically carried forward, so some of the images can be abbreviated images
- that depend on tables from earlier images.
- If you intend to write a series of images into a single destination file,
- you might want to make a specialized data destination module that doesn't
- flush the output buffer at term_destination() time. This would speed things
- up by some trifling amount. Of course, you'd need to remember to flush the
- buffer after the last image. You can make the later images be abbreviated
- ones by passing FALSE to jpeg_start_compress().
- Special markers
- ---------------
- Some applications may need to insert or extract special data in the JPEG
- datastream. The JPEG standard provides marker types "COM" (comment) and
- "APP0" through "APP15" (application) to hold application-specific data.
- Unfortunately, the use of these markers is not specified by the standard.
- COM markers are fairly widely used to hold user-supplied text. The JFIF file
- format spec uses APP0 markers with specified initial strings to hold certain
- data. Adobe applications use APP14 markers beginning with the string "Adobe"
- for miscellaneous data. Other APPn markers are rarely seen, but might
- contain almost anything.
- If you wish to store user-supplied text, we recommend you use COM markers
- and place readable 7-bit ASCII text in them. Newline conventions are not
- standardized --- expect to find LF (Unix style), CR/LF (DOS style), or CR
- (Mac style). A robust COM reader should be able to cope with random binary
- garbage, including nulls, since some applications generate COM markers
- containing non-ASCII junk. (But yours should not be one of them.)
- For program-supplied data, use an APPn marker, and be sure to begin it with an
- identifying string so that you can tell whether the marker is actually yours.
- It's probably best to avoid using APP0 or APP14 for any private markers.
- (NOTE: the upcoming SPIFF standard will use APP8 markers; we recommend you
- not use APP8 markers for any private purposes, either.)
- Keep in mind that at most 65533 bytes can be put into one marker, but you
- can have as many markers as you like.
- By default, the IJG compression library will write a JFIF APP0 marker if the
- selected JPEG colorspace is grayscale or YCbCr, or an Adobe APP14 marker if
- the selected colorspace is RGB, CMYK, or YCCK. You can disable this, but
- we don't recommend it. The decompression library will recognize JFIF and
- Adobe markers and will set the JPEG colorspace properly when one is found.
- You can write special markers immediately following the datastream header by
- calling jpeg_write_marker() after jpeg_start_compress() and before the first
- call to jpeg_write_scanlines(). When you do this, the markers appear after
- the SOI and the JFIF APP0 and Adobe APP14 markers (if written), but before
- all else. Specify the marker type parameter as "JPEG_COM" for COM or
- "JPEG_APP0 + n" for APPn. (Actually, jpeg_write_marker will let you write
- any marker type, but we don't recommend writing any other kinds of marker.)
- For example, to write a user comment string pointed to by comment_text:
- jpeg_write_marker(cinfo, JPEG_COM, comment_text, strlen(comment_text));
- If it's not convenient to store all the marker data in memory at once,
- you can instead call jpeg_write_m_header() followed by multiple calls to
- jpeg_write_m_byte(). If you do it this way, it's your responsibility to
- call jpeg_write_m_byte() exactly the number of times given in the length
- parameter to jpeg_write_m_header(). (This method lets you empty the
- output buffer partway through a marker, which might be important when
- using a suspending data destination module. In any case, if you are using
- a suspending destination, you should flush its buffer after inserting
- any special markers. See "I/O suspension".)
- Or, if you prefer to synthesize the marker byte sequence yourself,
- you can just cram it straight into the data destination module.
- If you are writing JFIF 1.02 extension markers (thumbnail images), don't
- forget to set cinfo.JFIF_minor_version = 2 so that the encoder will write the
- correct JFIF version number in the JFIF header marker. The library's default
- is to write version 1.01, but that's wrong if you insert any 1.02 extension
- markers. (We could probably get away with just defaulting to 1.02, but there
- used to be broken decoders that would complain about unknown minor version
- numbers. To reduce compatibility risks it's safest not to write 1.02 unless
- you are actually using 1.02 extensions.)
- When reading, two methods of handling special markers are available:
- 1. You can ask the library to save the contents of COM and/or APPn markers
- into memory, and then examine them at your leisure afterwards.
- 2. You can supply your own routine to process COM and/or APPn markers
- on-the-fly as they are read.
- The first method is simpler to use, especially if you are using a suspending
- data source; writing a marker processor that copes with input suspension is
- not easy (consider what happens if the marker is longer than your available
- input buffer). However, the second method conserves memory since the marker
- data need not be kept around after it's been processed.
- For either method, you'd normally set up marker handling after creating a
- decompression object and before calling jpeg_read_header(), because the
- markers of interest will typically be near the head of the file and so will
- be scanned by jpeg_read_header. Once you've established a marker handling
- method, it will be used for the life of that decompression object
- (potentially many datastreams), unless you change it. Marker handling is
- determined separately for COM markers and for each APPn marker code.
- To save the contents of special markers in memory, call
- jpeg_save_markers(cinfo, marker_code, length_limit)
- where marker_code is the marker type to save, JPEG_COM or JPEG_APP0+n.
- (To arrange to save all the special marker types, you need to call this
- routine 17 times, for COM and APP0-APP15.) If the incoming marker is longer
- than length_limit data bytes, only length_limit bytes will be saved; this
- parameter allows you to avoid chewing up memory when you only need to see the
- first few bytes of a potentially large marker. If you want to save all the
- data, set length_limit to 0xFFFF; that is enough since marker lengths are only
- 16 bits. As a special case, setting length_limit to 0 prevents that marker
- type from being saved at all. (That is the default behavior, in fact.)
- After jpeg_read_header() completes, you can examine the special markers by
- following the cinfo->marker_list pointer chain. All the special markers in
- the file appear in this list, in order of their occurrence in the file (but
- omitting any markers of types you didn't ask for). Both the original data
- length and the saved data length are recorded for each list entry; the latter
- will not exceed length_limit for the particular marker type. Note that these
- lengths exclude the marker length word, whereas the stored representation
- within the JPEG file includes it. (Hence the maximum data length is really
- only 65533.)
- It is possible that additional special markers appear in the file beyond the
- SOS marker at which jpeg_read_header stops; if so, the marker list will be
- extended during reading of the rest of the file. This is not expected to be
- common, however. If you are short on memory you may want to reset the length
- limit to zero for all marker types after finishing jpeg_read_header, to
- ensure that the max_memory_to_use setting cannot be exceeded due to addition
- of later markers.
- The marker list remains stored until you call jpeg_finish_decompress or
- jpeg_abort, at which point the memory is freed and the list is set to empty.
- (jpeg_destroy also releases the storage, of course.)
- Note that the library is internally interested in APP0 and APP14 markers;
- if you try to set a small nonzero length limit on these types, the library
- will silently force the length up to the minimum it wants. (But you can set
- a zero length limit to prevent them from being saved at all.) Also, in a
- 16-bit environment, the maximum length limit may be constrained to less than
- 65533 by malloc() limitations. It is therefore best not to assume that the
- effective length limit is exactly what you set it to be.
- If you want to supply your own marker-reading routine, you do it by calling
- jpeg_set_marker_processor(). A marker processor routine must have the
- signature
- boolean jpeg_marker_parser_method (j_decompress_ptr cinfo)
- Although the marker code is not explicitly passed, the routine can find it
- in cinfo->unread_marker. At the time of call, the marker proper has been
- read from the data source module. The processor routine is responsible for
- reading the marker length word and the remaining parameter bytes, if any.
- Return TRUE to indicate success. (FALSE should be returned only if you are
- using a suspending data source and it tells you to suspend. See the standard
- marker processors in jdmarker.c for appropriate coding methods if you need to
- use a suspending data source.)
- If you override the default APP0 or APP14 processors, it is up to you to
- recognize JFIF and Adobe markers if you want colorspace recognition to occur
- properly. We recommend copying and extending the default processors if you
- want to do that. (A better idea is to save these marker types for later
- examination by calling jpeg_save_markers(); that method doesn't interfere
- with the library's own processing of these markers.)
- jpeg_set_marker_processor() and jpeg_save_markers() are mutually exclusive
- --- if you call one it overrides any previous call to the other, for the
- particular marker type specified.
- A simple example of an external COM processor can be found in djpeg.c.
- Also, see jpegtran.c for an example of using jpeg_save_markers.
- Raw (downsampled) image data
- ----------------------------
- Some applications need to supply already-downsampled image data to the JPEG
- compressor, or to receive raw downsampled data from the decompressor. The
- library supports this requirement by allowing the application to write or
- read raw data, bypassing the normal preprocessing or postprocessing steps.
- The interface is different from the standard one and is somewhat harder to
- use. If your interest is merely in bypassing color conversion, we recommend
- that you use the standard interface and simply set jpeg_color_space =
- in_color_space (or jpeg_color_space = out_color_space for decompression).
- The mechanism described in this section is necessary only to supply or
- receive downsampled image data, in which not all components have the same
- dimensions.
- To compress raw data, you must supply the data in the colorspace to be used
- in the JPEG file (please read the earlier section on Special color spaces)
- and downsampled to the sampling factors specified in the JPEG parameters.
- You must supply the data in the format used internally by the JPEG library,
- namely a JSAMPIMAGE array. This is an array of pointers to two-dimensional
- arrays, each of type JSAMPARRAY. Each 2-D array holds the values for one
- color component. This structure is necessary since the components are of
- different sizes. If the image dimensions are not a multiple of the MCU size,
- you must also pad the data correctly (usually, this is done by replicating
- the last column and/or row). The data must be padded to a multiple of a DCT
- block in each component: that is, each downsampled row must contain a
- multiple of block_size valid samples, and there must be a multiple of
- block_size sample rows for each component. (For applications such as
- conversion of digital TV images, the standard image size is usually a
- multiple of the DCT block size, so that no padding need actually be done.)
- The procedure for compression of raw data is basically the same as normal
- compression, except that you call jpeg_write_raw_data() in place of
- jpeg_write_scanlines(). Before calling jpeg_start_compress(), you must do
- the following:
- * Set cinfo->raw_data_in to TRUE. (It is set FALSE by jpeg_set_defaults().)
- This notifies the library that you will be supplying raw data.
- Furthermore, set cinfo->do_fancy_downsampling to FALSE if you want to use
- real downsampled data. (It is set TRUE by jpeg_set_defaults().)
- * Ensure jpeg_color_space is correct --- an explicit jpeg_set_colorspace()
- call is a good idea. Note that since color conversion is bypassed,
- in_color_space is ignored, except that jpeg_set_defaults() uses it to
- choose the default jpeg_color_space setting.
- * Ensure the sampling factors, cinfo->comp_info[i].h_samp_factor and
- cinfo->comp_info[i].v_samp_factor, are correct. Since these indicate the
- dimensions of the data you are supplying, it's wise to set them
- explicitly, rather than assuming the library's defaults are what you want.
- To pass raw data to the library, call jpeg_write_raw_data() in place of
- jpeg_write_scanlines(). The two routines work similarly except that
- jpeg_write_raw_data takes a JSAMPIMAGE data array rather than JSAMPARRAY.
- The scanlines count passed to and returned from jpeg_write_raw_data is
- measured in terms of the component with the largest v_samp_factor.
- jpeg_write_raw_data() processes one MCU row per call, which is to say
- v_samp_factor*block_size sample rows of each component. The passed num_lines
- value must be at least max_v_samp_factor*block_size, and the return value
- will be exactly that amount (or possibly some multiple of that amount, in
- future library versions). This is true even on the last call at the bottom
- of the image; don't forget to pad your data as necessary.
- The required dimensions of the supplied data can be computed for each
- component as
- cinfo->comp_info[i].width_in_blocks*block_size samples per row
- cinfo->comp_info[i].height_in_blocks*block_size rows in image
- after jpeg_start_compress() has initialized those fields. If the valid data
- is smaller than this, it must be padded appropriately. For some sampling
- factors and image sizes, additional dummy DCT blocks are inserted to make
- the image a multiple of the MCU dimensions. The library creates such dummy
- blocks itself; it does not read them from your supplied data. Therefore you
- need never pad by more than block_size samples. An example may help here.
- Assume 2h2v downsampling of YCbCr data, that is
- cinfo->comp_info[0].h_samp_factor = 2 for Y
- cinfo->comp_info[0].v_samp_factor = 2
- cinfo->comp_info[1].h_samp_factor = 1 for Cb
- cinfo->comp_info[1].v_samp_factor = 1
- cinfo->comp_info[2].h_samp_factor = 1 for Cr
- cinfo->comp_info[2].v_samp_factor = 1
- and suppose that the nominal image dimensions (cinfo->image_width and
- cinfo->image_height) are 101x101 pixels. Then jpeg_start_compress() will
- compute downsampled_width = 101 and width_in_blocks = 13 for Y,
- downsampled_width = 51 and width_in_blocks = 7 for Cb and Cr (and the same
- for the height fields). You must pad the Y data to at least 13*8 = 104
- columns and rows, the Cb/Cr data to at least 7*8 = 56 columns and rows. The
- MCU height is max_v_samp_factor = 2 DCT rows so you must pass at least 16
- scanlines on each call to jpeg_write_raw_data(), which is to say 16 actual
- sample rows of Y and 8 each of Cb and Cr. A total of 7 MCU rows are needed,
- so you must pass a total of 7*16 = 112 "scanlines". The last DCT block row
- of Y data is dummy, so it doesn't matter what you pass for it in the data
- arrays, but the scanlines count must total up to 112 so that all of the Cb
- and Cr data gets passed.
- Output suspension is supported with raw-data compression: if the data
- destination module suspends, jpeg_write_raw_data() will return 0.
- In this case the same data rows must be passed again on the next call.
- Decompression with raw data output implies bypassing all postprocessing.
- You must deal with the color space and sampling factors present in the
- incoming file. If your application only handles, say, 2h1v YCbCr data,
- you must check for and fail on other color spaces or other sampling factors.
- The library will not convert to a different color space for you.
- To obtain raw data output, set cinfo->raw_data_out = TRUE before
- jpeg_start_decompress() (it is set FALSE by jpeg_read_header()). Be sure to
- verify that the color space and sampling factors are ones you can handle.
- Furthermore, set cinfo->do_fancy_upsampling = FALSE if you want to get real
- downsampled data (it is set TRUE by jpeg_read_header()).
- Then call jpeg_read_raw_data() in place of jpeg_read_scanlines(). The
- decompression process is otherwise the same as usual.
- jpeg_read_raw_data() returns one MCU row per call, and thus you must pass a
- buffer of at least max_v_samp_factor*block_size scanlines (scanline counting
- is the same as for raw-data compression). The buffer you pass must be large
- enough to hold the actual data plus padding to DCT-block boundaries. As with
- compression, any entirely dummy DCT blocks are not processed so you need not
- allocate space for them, but the total scanline count includes them. The
- above example of computing buffer dimensions for raw-data compression is
- equally valid for decompression.
- Input suspension is supported with raw-data decompression: if the data source
- module suspends, jpeg_read_raw_data() will return 0. You can also use
- buffered-image mode to read raw data in multiple passes.
- Really raw data: DCT coefficients
- ---------------------------------
- It is possible to read or write the contents of a JPEG file as raw DCT
- coefficients. This facility is mainly intended for use in lossless
- transcoding between different JPEG file formats. Other possible applications
- include lossless cropping of a JPEG image, lossless reassembly of a
- multi-strip or multi-tile TIFF/JPEG file into a single JPEG datastream, etc.
- To read the contents of a JPEG file as DCT coefficients, open the file and do
- jpeg_read_header() as usual. But instead of calling jpeg_start_decompress()
- and jpeg_read_scanlines(), call jpeg_read_coefficients(). This will read the
- entire image into a set of virtual coefficient-block arrays, one array per
- component. The return value is a pointer to an array of virtual-array
- descriptors. Each virtual array can be accessed directly using the JPEG
- memory manager's access_virt_barray method (see Memory management, below,
- and also read structure.txt's discussion of virtual array handling). Or,
- for simple transcoding to a different JPEG file format, the array list can
- just be handed directly to jpeg_write_coefficients().
- Each block in the block arrays contains quantized coefficient values in
- normal array order (not JPEG zigzag order). The block arrays contain only
- DCT blocks containing real data; any entirely-dummy blocks added to fill out
- interleaved MCUs at the right or bottom edges of the image are discarded
- during reading and are not stored in the block arrays. (The size of each
- block array can be determined from the width_in_blocks and height_in_blocks
- fields of the component's comp_info entry.) This is also the data format
- expected by jpeg_write_coefficients().
- When you are done using the virtual arrays, call jpeg_finish_decompress()
- to release the array storage and return the decompression object to an idle
- state; or just call jpeg_destroy() if you don't need to reuse the object.
- If you use a suspending data source, jpeg_read_coefficients() will return
- NULL if it is forced to suspend; a non-NULL return value indicates successful
- completion. You need not test for a NULL return value when using a
- non-suspending data source.
- It is also possible to call jpeg_read_coefficients() to obtain access to the
- decoder's coefficient arrays during a normal decode cycle in buffered-image
- mode. This frammish might be useful for progressively displaying an incoming
- image and then re-encoding it without loss. To do this, decode in buffered-
- image mode as discussed previously, then call jpeg_read_coefficients() after
- the last jpeg_finish_output() call. The arrays will be available for your use
- until you call jpeg_finish_decompress().
- To write the contents of a JPEG file as DCT coefficients, you must provide
- the DCT coefficients stored in virtual block arrays. You can either pass
- block arrays read from an input JPEG file by jpeg_read_coefficients(), or
- allocate virtual arrays from the JPEG compression object and fill them
- yourself. In either case, jpeg_write_coefficients() is substituted for
- jpeg_start_compress() and jpeg_write_scanlines(). Thus the sequence is
- * Create compression object
- * Set all compression parameters as necessary
- * Request virtual arrays if needed
- * jpeg_write_coefficients()
- * jpeg_finish_compress()
- * Destroy or re-use compression object
- jpeg_write_coefficients() is passed a pointer to an array of virtual block
- array descriptors; the number of arrays is equal to cinfo.num_components.
- The virtual arrays need only have been requested, not realized, before
- jpeg_write_coefficients() is called. A side-effect of
- jpeg_write_coefficients() is to realize any virtual arrays that have been
- requested from the compression object's memory manager. Thus, when obtaining
- the virtual arrays from the compression object, you should fill the arrays
- after calling jpeg_write_coefficients(). The data is actually written out
- when you call jpeg_finish_compress(); jpeg_write_coefficients() only writes
- the file header.
- When writing raw DCT coefficients, it is crucial that the JPEG quantization
- tables and sampling factors match the way the data was encoded, or the
- resulting file will be invalid. For transcoding from an existing JPEG file,
- we recommend using jpeg_copy_critical_parameters(). This routine initializes
- all the compression parameters to default values (like jpeg_set_defaults()),
- then copies the critical information from a source decompression object.
- The decompression object should have just been used to read the entire
- JPEG input file --- that is, it should be awaiting jpeg_finish_decompress().
- jpeg_write_coefficients() marks all tables stored in the compression object
- as needing to be written to the output file (thus, it acts like
- jpeg_start_compress(cinfo, TRUE)). This is for safety's sake, to avoid
- emitting abbreviated JPEG files by accident. If you really want to emit an
- abbreviated JPEG file, call jpeg_suppress_tables(), or set the tables'
- individual sent_table flags, between calling jpeg_write_coefficients() and
- jpeg_finish_compress().
- Progress monitoring
- -------------------
- Some applications may need to regain control from the JPEG library every so
- often. The typical use of this feature is to produce a percent-done bar or
- other progress display. (For a simple example, see cjpeg.c or djpeg.c.)
- Although you do get control back frequently during the data-transferring pass
- (the jpeg_read_scanlines or jpeg_write_scanlines loop), any additional passes
- will occur inside jpeg_finish_compress or jpeg_start_decompress; those
- routines may take a long time to execute, and you don't get control back
- until they are done.
- You can define a progress-monitor routine which will be called periodically
- by the library. No guarantees are made about how often this call will occur,
- so we don't recommend you use it for mouse tracking or anything like that.
- At present, a call will occur once per MCU row, scanline, or sample row
- group, whichever unit is convenient for the current processing mode; so the
- wider the image, the longer the time between calls. During the data
- transferring pass, only one call occurs per call of jpeg_read_scanlines or
- jpeg_write_scanlines, so don't pass a large number of scanlines at once if
- you want fine resolution in the progress count. (If you really need to use
- the callback mechanism for time-critical tasks like mouse tracking, you could
- insert additional calls inside some of the library's inner loops.)
- To establish a progress-monitor callback, create a struct jpeg_progress_mgr,
- fill in its progress_monitor field with a pointer to your callback routine,
- and set cinfo->progress to point to the struct. The callback will be called
- whenever cinfo->progress is non-NULL. (This pointer is set to NULL by
- jpeg_create_compress or jpeg_create_decompress; the library will not change
- it thereafter. So if you allocate dynamic storage for the progress struct,
- make sure it will live as long as the JPEG object does. Allocating from the
- JPEG memory manager with lifetime JPOOL_PERMANENT will work nicely.) You
- can use the same callback routine for both compression and decompression.
- The jpeg_progress_mgr struct contains four fields which are set by the library:
- long pass_counter; /* work units completed in this pass */
- long pass_limit; /* total number of work units in this pass */
- int completed_passes; /* passes completed so far */
- int total_passes; /* total number of passes expected */
- During any one pass, pass_counter increases from 0 up to (not including)
- pass_limit; the step size is usually but not necessarily 1. The pass_limit
- value may change from one pass to another. The expected total number of
- passes is in total_passes, and the number of passes already completed is in
- completed_passes. Thus the fraction of work completed may be estimated as
- completed_passes + (pass_counter/pass_limit)
- --------------------------------------------
- total_passes
- ignoring the fact that the passes may not be equal amounts of work.
- When decompressing, pass_limit can even change within a pass, because it
- depends on the number of scans in the JPEG file, which isn't always known in
- advance. The computed fraction-of-work-done may jump suddenly (if the library
- discovers it has overestimated the number of scans) or even decrease (in the
- opposite case). It is not wise to put great faith in the work estimate.
- When using the decompressor's buffered-image mode, the progress monitor work
- estimate is likely to be completely unhelpful, because the library has no way
- to know how many output passes will be demanded of it. Currently, the library
- sets total_passes based on the assumption that there will be one more output
- pass if the input file end hasn't yet been read (jpeg_input_complete() isn't
- TRUE), but no more output passes if the file end has been reached when the
- output pass is started. This means that total_passes will rise as additional
- output passes are requested. If you have a way of determining the input file
- size, estimating progress based on the fraction of the file that's been read
- will probably be more useful than using the library's value.
- Memory management
- -----------------
- This section covers some key facts about the JPEG library's built-in memory
- manager. For more info, please read structure.txt's section about the memory
- manager, and consult the source code if necessary.
- All memory and temporary file allocation within the library is done via the
- memory manager. If necessary, you can replace the "back end" of the memory
- manager to control allocation yourself (for example, if you don't want the
- library to use malloc() and free() for some reason).
- Some data is allocated "permanently" and will not be freed until the JPEG
- object is destroyed. Most data is allocated "per image" and is freed by
- jpeg_finish_compress, jpeg_finish_decompress, or jpeg_abort. You can call the
- memory manager yourself to allocate structures that will automatically be
- freed at these times. Typical code for this is
- ptr = (*cinfo->mem->alloc_small) ((j_common_ptr) cinfo, JPOOL_IMAGE, size);
- Use JPOOL_PERMANENT to get storage that lasts as long as the JPEG object.
- Use alloc_large instead of alloc_small for anything bigger than a few Kbytes.
- There are also alloc_sarray and alloc_barray routines that automatically
- build 2-D sample or block arrays.
- The library's minimum space requirements to process an image depend on the
- image's width, but not on its height, because the library ordinarily works
- with "strip" buffers that are as wide as the image but just a few rows high.
- Some operating modes (eg, two-pass color quantization) require full-image
- buffers. Such buffers are treated as "virtual arrays": only the current strip
- need be in memory, and the rest can be swapped out to a temporary file.
- If you use the simplest memory manager back end (jmemnobs.c), then no
- temporary files are used; virtual arrays are simply malloc()'d. Images bigger
- than memory can be processed only if your system supports virtual memory.
- The other memory manager back ends support temporary files of various flavors
- and thus work in machines without virtual memory. They may also be useful on
- Unix machines if you need to process images that exceed available swap space.
- When using temporary files, the library will make the in-memory buffers for
- its virtual arrays just big enough to stay within a "maximum memory" setting.
- Your application can set this limit by setting cinfo->mem->max_memory_to_use
- after creating the JPEG object. (Of course, there is still a minimum size for
- the buffers, so the max-memory setting is effective only if it is bigger than
- the minimum space needed.) If you allocate any large structures yourself, you
- must allocate them before jpeg_start_compress() or jpeg_start_decompress() in
- order to have them counted against the max memory limit. Also keep in mind
- that space allocated with alloc_small() is ignored, on the assumption that
- it's too small to be worth worrying about; so a reasonable safety margin
- should be left when setting max_memory_to_use.
- If you use the jmemname.c or jmemdos.c memory manager back end, it is
- important to clean up the JPEG object properly to ensure that the temporary
- files get deleted. (This is especially crucial with jmemdos.c, where the
- "temporary files" may be extended-memory segments; if they are not freed,
- DOS will require a reboot to recover the memory.) Thus, with these memory
- managers, it's a good idea to provide a signal handler that will trap any
- early exit from your program. The handler should call either jpeg_abort()
- or jpeg_destroy() for any active JPEG objects. A handler is not needed with
- jmemnobs.c, and shouldn't be necessary with jmemansi.c or jmemmac.c either,
- since the C library is supposed to take care of deleting files made with
- tmpfile().
- Memory usage
- ------------
- Working memory requirements while performing compression or decompression
- depend on image dimensions, image characteristics (such as colorspace and
- JPEG process), and operating mode (application-selected options).
- As of v6b, the decompressor requires:
- 1. About 24K in more-or-less-fixed-size data. This varies a bit depending
- on operating mode and image characteristics (particularly color vs.
- grayscale), but it doesn't depend on image dimensions.
- 2. Strip buffers (of size proportional to the image width) for IDCT and
- upsampling results. The worst case for commonly used sampling factors
- is about 34 bytes * width in pixels for a color image. A grayscale image
- only needs about 8 bytes per pixel column.
- 3. A full-image DCT coefficient buffer is needed to decode a multi-scan JPEG
- file (including progressive JPEGs), or whenever you select buffered-image
- mode. This takes 2 bytes/coefficient. At typical 2x2 sampling, that's
- 3 bytes per pixel for a color image. Worst case (1x1 sampling) requires
- 6 bytes/pixel. For grayscale, figure 2 bytes/pixel.
- 4. To perform 2-pass color quantization, the decompressor also needs a
- 128K color lookup table and a full-image pixel buffer (3 bytes/pixel).
- This does not count any memory allocated by the application, such as a
- buffer to hold the final output image.
- The above figures are valid for 8-bit JPEG data precision and a machine with
- 32-bit ints. For 9-bit to 12-bit JPEG data, double the size of the strip
- buffers and quantization pixel buffer. The "fixed-size" data will be
- somewhat smaller with 16-bit ints, larger with 64-bit ints. Also, CMYK
- or other unusual color spaces will require different amounts of space.
- The full-image coefficient and pixel buffers, if needed at all, do not
- have to be fully RAM resident; you can have the library use temporary
- files instead when the total memory usage would exceed a limit you set.
- (But if your OS supports virtual memory, it's probably better to just use
- jmemnobs and let the OS do the swapping.)
- The compressor's memory requirements are similar, except that it has no need
- for color quantization. Also, it needs a full-image DCT coefficient buffer
- if Huffman-table optimization is asked for, even if progressive mode is not
- requested.
- If you need more detailed information about memory usage in a particular
- situation, you can enable the MEM_STATS code in jmemmgr.c.
- Library compile-time options
- ----------------------------
- A number of compile-time options are available by modifying jmorecfg.h.
- The IJG code currently supports 8-bit to 12-bit sample data precision by
- defining BITS_IN_JSAMPLE as 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12.
- Note that a value larger than 8 causes JSAMPLE to be larger than a char,
- so it affects the surrounding application's image data.
- The sample applications cjpeg and djpeg can support deeper than 8-bit data
- only for PPM and GIF file formats; you must disable the other file formats
- to compile a 9-bit to 12-bit cjpeg or djpeg. (install.txt has more
- information about that.)
- Run-time selection and conversion of data precision are currently not
- supported and may be added later.
- Exception: The transcoding part (jpegtran) supports all settings in a
- single instance, since it operates on the level of DCT coefficients and
- not sample values.
- (If you need to include an 8-bit library and a 9-bit to 12-bit library for
- compression or decompression in a single application, you could probably do
- it by defining NEED_SHORT_EXTERNAL_NAMES for just one of the copies. You'd
- have to access the 8-bit and the 9-bit to 12-bit copies from separate
- application source files. This is untested ... if you try it, we'd like to
- hear whether it works!)
- Note that the standard Huffman tables are only valid for 8-bit data precision.
- If you selected more than 8-bit data precision, cjpeg uses arithmetic coding
- by default. The Huffman encoder normally uses entropy optimization to
- compute usable tables for higher precision. Otherwise, you'll have to
- supply different default Huffman tables. You may also want to supply your
- own DCT quantization tables; the existing quality-scaling code has been
- developed for 8-bit use, and probably doesn't generate especially good tables
- for 9-bit to 12-bit.
- The maximum number of components (color channels) in the image is determined
- by MAX_COMPONENTS. The JPEG standard allows up to 255 components, but we
- expect that few applications will need more than four or so.
- On machines with unusual data type sizes, you may be able to improve
- performance or reduce memory space by tweaking the various typedefs in
- jmorecfg.h. In particular, on some RISC CPUs, access to arrays of "short"s
- is quite slow; consider trading memory for speed by making JCOEF, INT16, and
- UINT16 be "int" or "unsigned int". UINT8 is also a candidate to become int.
- You probably don't want to make JSAMPLE be int unless you have lots of memory
- to burn.
- You can reduce the size of the library by compiling out various optional
- functions. To do this, undefine xxx_SUPPORTED symbols as necessary.
- You can also save a few K by not having text error messages in the library;
- the standard error message table occupies about 5Kb. This is particularly
- reasonable for embedded applications where there's no good way to display
- a message anyway. To do this, remove the creation of the message table
- (jpeg_std_message_table[]) from jerror.c, and alter format_message to do
- something reasonable without it. You could output the numeric value of the
- message code number, for example. If you do this, you can also save a couple
- more K by modifying the TRACEMSn() macros in jerror.h to expand to nothing;
- you don't need trace capability anyway, right?
- Portability considerations
- --------------------------
- The JPEG library has been written to be extremely portable; the sample
- applications cjpeg and djpeg are slightly less so. This section summarizes
- the design goals in this area. (If you encounter any bugs that cause the
- library to be less portable than is claimed here, we'd appreciate hearing
- about them.)
- The code works fine on ANSI C, C++, and pre-ANSI C compilers, using any of
- the popular system include file setups, and some not-so-popular ones too.
- See install.txt for configuration procedures.
- The code is not dependent on the exact sizes of the C data types. As
- distributed, we make the assumptions that
- char is at least 8 bits wide
- short is at least 16 bits wide
- int is at least 16 bits wide
- long is at least 32 bits wide
- (These are the minimum requirements of the ANSI C standard.) Wider types will
- work fine, although memory may be used inefficiently if char is much larger
- than 8 bits or short is much bigger than 16 bits. The code should work
- equally well with 16- or 32-bit ints.
- In a system where these assumptions are not met, you may be able to make the
- code work by modifying the typedefs in jmorecfg.h. However, you will probably
- have difficulty if int is less than 16 bits wide, since references to plain
- int abound in the code.
- char can be either signed or unsigned, although the code runs faster if an
- unsigned char type is available. If char is wider than 8 bits, you will need
- to redefine JOCTET and/or provide custom data source/destination managers so
- that JOCTET represents exactly 8 bits of data on external storage.
- The JPEG library proper does not assume ASCII representation of characters.
- But some of the image file I/O modules in cjpeg/djpeg do have ASCII
- dependencies in file-header manipulation; so does cjpeg's select_file_type()
- routine.
- The JPEG library does not rely heavily on the C library. In particular, C
- stdio is used only by the data source/destination modules and the error
- handler, all of which are application-replaceable. (cjpeg/djpeg are more
- heavily dependent on stdio.) malloc and free are called only from the memory
- manager "back end" module, so you can use a different memory allocator by
- replacing that one file.
- The code generally assumes that C names must be unique in the first 15
- characters. However, global function names can be made unique in the
- first 6 characters by defining NEED_SHORT_EXTERNAL_NAMES.
- More info about porting the code may be gleaned by reading jconfig.txt,
- jmorecfg.h, and jinclude.h.
- Notes for MS-DOS implementors
- -----------------------------
- The IJG code is designed to work efficiently in 80x86 "small" or "medium"
- memory models (i.e., data pointers are 16 bits unless explicitly declared
- "far"; code pointers can be either size). You may be able to use small
- model to compile cjpeg or djpeg by itself, but you will probably have to use
- medium model for any larger application. This won't make much difference in
- performance. You *will* take a noticeable performance hit if you use a
- large-data memory model (perhaps 10%-25%), and you should avoid "huge" model
- if at all possible.
- The JPEG library typically needs 2Kb-3Kb of stack space. It will also
- malloc about 20K-30K of near heap space while executing (and lots of far
- heap, but that doesn't count in this calculation). This figure will vary
- depending on selected operating mode, and to a lesser extent on image size.
- There is also about 5Kb-6Kb of constant data which will be allocated in the
- near data segment (about 4Kb of this is the error message table).
- Thus you have perhaps 20K available for other modules' static data and near
- heap space before you need to go to a larger memory model. The C library's
- static data will account for several K of this, but that still leaves a good
- deal for your needs. (If you are tight on space, you could reduce the sizes
- of the I/O buffers allocated by jdatasrc.c and jdatadst.c, say from 4K to
- 1K. Another possibility is to move the error message table to far memory;
- this should be doable with only localized hacking on jerror.c.)
- About 2K of the near heap space is "permanent" memory that will not be
- released until you destroy the JPEG object. This is only an issue if you
- save a JPEG object between compression or decompression operations.
- Far data space may also be a tight resource when you are dealing with large
- images. The most memory-intensive case is decompression with two-pass color
- quantization, or single-pass quantization to an externally supplied color
- map. This requires a 128Kb color lookup table plus strip buffers amounting
- to about 40 bytes per column for typical sampling ratios (eg, about 25600
- bytes for a 640-pixel-wide image). You may not be able to process wide
- images if you have large data structures of your own.
- Of course, all of these concerns vanish if you use a 32-bit flat-memory-model
- compiler, such as DJGPP or Watcom C. We highly recommend flat model if you
- can use it; the JPEG library is significantly faster in flat model.
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