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Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001USING THE IJG JPEG LIBRARY
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DRCa73e8702012-12-31 02:52:30 +00003This file was part of the Independent JPEG Group's software:
Guido Vollbeding5829cb22012-01-15 00:00:00 +00004Copyright (C) 1994-2011, Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding.
DRCa73e8702012-12-31 02:52:30 +00005Modifications:
6Copyright (C) 2010, D. R. Commander.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00007For conditions of distribution and use, see the accompanying README file.
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9
10This file describes how to use the IJG JPEG library within an application
11program. Read it if you want to write a program that uses the library.
12
13The file example.c provides heavily commented skeleton code for calling the
14JPEG library. Also see jpeglib.h (the include file to be used by application
15programs) for full details about data structures and function parameter lists.
16The library source code, of course, is the ultimate reference.
17
18Note that there have been *major* changes from the application interface
19presented by IJG version 4 and earlier versions. The old design had several
20inherent limitations, and it had accumulated a lot of cruft as we added
21features while trying to minimize application-interface changes. We have
22sacrificed backward compatibility in the version 5 rewrite, but we think the
23improvements justify this.
24
25
26TABLE OF CONTENTS
27-----------------
28
29Overview:
30 Functions provided by the library
31 Outline of typical usage
32Basic library usage:
33 Data formats
34 Compression details
35 Decompression details
36 Mechanics of usage: include files, linking, etc
37Advanced features:
38 Compression parameter selection
39 Decompression parameter selection
40 Special color spaces
41 Error handling
42 Compressed data handling (source and destination managers)
43 I/O suspension
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +000044 Progressive JPEG support
45 Buffered-image mode
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +000046 Abbreviated datastreams and multiple images
47 Special markers
48 Raw (downsampled) image data
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +000049 Really raw data: DCT coefficients
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +000050 Progress monitoring
51 Memory management
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +000052 Memory usage
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +000053 Library compile-time options
54 Portability considerations
55 Notes for MS-DOS implementors
56
57You should read at least the overview and basic usage sections before trying
58to program with the library. The sections on advanced features can be read
59if and when you need them.
60
61
62OVERVIEW
63========
64
65Functions provided by the library
66---------------------------------
67
68The IJG JPEG library provides C code to read and write JPEG-compressed image
69files. The surrounding application program receives or supplies image data a
70scanline at a time, using a straightforward uncompressed image format. All
71details of color conversion and other preprocessing/postprocessing can be
72handled by the library.
73
74The library includes a substantial amount of code that is not covered by the
75JPEG standard but is necessary for typical applications of JPEG. These
76functions preprocess the image before JPEG compression or postprocess it after
77decompression. They include colorspace conversion, downsampling/upsampling,
78and color quantization. The application indirectly selects use of this code
79by specifying the format in which it wishes to supply or receive image data.
80For example, if colormapped output is requested, then the decompression
81library automatically invokes color quantization.
82
83A wide range of quality vs. speed tradeoffs are possible in JPEG processing,
84and even more so in decompression postprocessing. The decompression library
85provides multiple implementations that cover most of the useful tradeoffs,
86ranging from very-high-quality down to fast-preview operation. On the
87compression side we have generally not provided low-quality choices, since
88compression is normally less time-critical. It should be understood that the
89low-quality modes may not meet the JPEG standard's accuracy requirements;
90nonetheless, they are useful for viewers.
91
92A word about functions *not* provided by the library. We handle a subset of
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +000093the ISO JPEG standard; most baseline, extended-sequential, and progressive
94JPEG processes are supported. (Our subset includes all features now in common
95use.) Unsupported ISO options include:
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +000096 * Hierarchical storage
97 * Lossless JPEG
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +000098 * DNL marker
99 * Nonintegral subsampling ratios
100We support both 8- and 12-bit data precision, but this is a compile-time
101choice rather than a run-time choice; hence it is difficult to use both
102precisions in a single application.
103
104By itself, the library handles only interchange JPEG datastreams --- in
105particular the widely used JFIF file format. The library can be used by
106surrounding code to process interchange or abbreviated JPEG datastreams that
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000107are embedded in more complex file formats. (For example, this library is
108used by the free LIBTIFF library to support JPEG compression in TIFF.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000109
110
111Outline of typical usage
112------------------------
113
114The rough outline of a JPEG compression operation is:
115
116 Allocate and initialize a JPEG compression object
117 Specify the destination for the compressed data (eg, a file)
118 Set parameters for compression, including image size & colorspace
119 jpeg_start_compress(...);
120 while (scan lines remain to be written)
121 jpeg_write_scanlines(...);
122 jpeg_finish_compress(...);
123 Release the JPEG compression object
124
125A JPEG compression object holds parameters and working state for the JPEG
126library. We make creation/destruction of the object separate from starting
127or finishing compression of an image; the same object can be re-used for a
128series of image compression operations. This makes it easy to re-use the
129same parameter settings for a sequence of images. Re-use of a JPEG object
130also has important implications for processing abbreviated JPEG datastreams,
131as discussed later.
132
133The image data to be compressed is supplied to jpeg_write_scanlines() from
134in-memory buffers. If the application is doing file-to-file compression,
135reading image data from the source file is the application's responsibility.
136The library emits compressed data by calling a "data destination manager",
137which typically will write the data into a file; but the application can
138provide its own destination manager to do something else.
139
140Similarly, the rough outline of a JPEG decompression operation is:
141
142 Allocate and initialize a JPEG decompression object
143 Specify the source of the compressed data (eg, a file)
144 Call jpeg_read_header() to obtain image info
145 Set parameters for decompression
146 jpeg_start_decompress(...);
147 while (scan lines remain to be read)
148 jpeg_read_scanlines(...);
149 jpeg_finish_decompress(...);
150 Release the JPEG decompression object
151
152This is comparable to the compression outline except that reading the
153datastream header is a separate step. This is helpful because information
154about the image's size, colorspace, etc is available when the application
155selects decompression parameters. For example, the application can choose an
156output scaling ratio that will fit the image into the available screen size.
157
158The decompression library obtains compressed data by calling a data source
159manager, which typically will read the data from a file; but other behaviors
160can be obtained with a custom source manager. Decompressed data is delivered
161into in-memory buffers passed to jpeg_read_scanlines().
162
163It is possible to abort an incomplete compression or decompression operation
164by calling jpeg_abort(); or, if you do not need to retain the JPEG object,
165simply release it by calling jpeg_destroy().
166
167JPEG compression and decompression objects are two separate struct types.
168However, they share some common fields, and certain routines such as
169jpeg_destroy() can work on either type of object.
170
171The JPEG library has no static variables: all state is in the compression
172or decompression object. Therefore it is possible to process multiple
173compression and decompression operations concurrently, using multiple JPEG
174objects.
175
176Both compression and decompression can be done in an incremental memory-to-
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000177memory fashion, if suitable source/destination managers are used. See the
178section on "I/O suspension" for more details.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000179
180
181BASIC LIBRARY USAGE
182===================
183
184Data formats
185------------
186
187Before diving into procedural details, it is helpful to understand the
188image data format that the JPEG library expects or returns.
189
190The standard input image format is a rectangular array of pixels, with each
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +0000191pixel having the same number of "component" or "sample" values (color
192channels). You must specify how many components there are and the colorspace
193interpretation of the components. Most applications will use RGB data
194(three components per pixel) or grayscale data (one component per pixel).
195PLEASE NOTE THAT RGB DATA IS THREE SAMPLES PER PIXEL, GRAYSCALE ONLY ONE.
196A remarkable number of people manage to miss this, only to find that their
197programs don't work with grayscale JPEG files.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000198
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +0000199There is no provision for colormapped input. JPEG files are always full-color
200or full grayscale (or sometimes another colorspace such as CMYK). You can
201feed in a colormapped image by expanding it to full-color format. However
202JPEG often doesn't work very well with source data that has been colormapped,
203because of dithering noise. This is discussed in more detail in the JPEG FAQ
204and the other references mentioned in the README file.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000205
206Pixels are stored by scanlines, with each scanline running from left to
207right. The component values for each pixel are adjacent in the row; for
208example, R,G,B,R,G,B,R,G,B,... for 24-bit RGB color. Each scanline is an
209array of data type JSAMPLE --- which is typically "unsigned char", unless
210you've changed jmorecfg.h. (You can also change the RGB pixel layout, say
211to B,G,R order, by modifying jmorecfg.h. But see the restrictions listed in
212that file before doing so.)
213
214A 2-D array of pixels is formed by making a list of pointers to the starts of
215scanlines; so the scanlines need not be physically adjacent in memory. Even
216if you process just one scanline at a time, you must make a one-element
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000217pointer array to conform to this structure. Pointers to JSAMPLE rows are of
218type JSAMPROW, and the pointer to the pointer array is of type JSAMPARRAY.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000219
220The library accepts or supplies one or more complete scanlines per call.
221It is not possible to process part of a row at a time. Scanlines are always
222processed top-to-bottom. You can process an entire image in one call if you
223have it all in memory, but usually it's simplest to process one scanline at
224a time.
225
226For best results, source data values should have the precision specified by
227BITS_IN_JSAMPLE (normally 8 bits). For instance, if you choose to compress
228data that's only 6 bits/channel, you should left-justify each value in a
229byte before passing it to the compressor. If you need to compress data
230that has more than 8 bits/channel, compile with BITS_IN_JSAMPLE = 12.
231(See "Library compile-time options", later.)
232
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +0000233
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000234The data format returned by the decompressor is the same in all details,
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +0000235except that colormapped output is supported. (Again, a JPEG file is never
236colormapped. But you can ask the decompressor to perform on-the-fly color
237quantization to deliver colormapped output.) If you request colormapped
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000238output then the returned data array contains a single JSAMPLE per pixel;
239its value is an index into a color map. The color map is represented as
240a 2-D JSAMPARRAY in which each row holds the values of one color component,
241that is, colormap[i][j] is the value of the i'th color component for pixel
242value (map index) j. Note that since the colormap indexes are stored in
243JSAMPLEs, the maximum number of colors is limited by the size of JSAMPLE
244(ie, at most 256 colors for an 8-bit JPEG library).
245
246
247Compression details
248-------------------
249
250Here we revisit the JPEG compression outline given in the overview.
251
2521. Allocate and initialize a JPEG compression object.
253
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000254A JPEG compression object is a "struct jpeg_compress_struct". (It also has
255a bunch of subsidiary structures which are allocated via malloc(), but the
256application doesn't control those directly.) This struct can be just a local
257variable in the calling routine, if a single routine is going to execute the
258whole JPEG compression sequence. Otherwise it can be static or allocated
259from malloc().
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000260
261You will also need a structure representing a JPEG error handler. The part
262of this that the library cares about is a "struct jpeg_error_mgr". If you
263are providing your own error handler, you'll typically want to embed the
264jpeg_error_mgr struct in a larger structure; this is discussed later under
265"Error handling". For now we'll assume you are just using the default error
266handler. The default error handler will print JPEG error/warning messages
267on stderr, and it will call exit() if a fatal error occurs.
268
269You must initialize the error handler structure, store a pointer to it into
270the JPEG object's "err" field, and then call jpeg_create_compress() to
271initialize the rest of the JPEG object.
272
273Typical code for this step, if you are using the default error handler, is
274
275 struct jpeg_compress_struct cinfo;
276 struct jpeg_error_mgr jerr;
277 ...
278 cinfo.err = jpeg_std_error(&jerr);
279 jpeg_create_compress(&cinfo);
280
281jpeg_create_compress allocates a small amount of memory, so it could fail
282if you are out of memory. In that case it will exit via the error handler;
283that's why the error handler must be initialized first.
284
285
2862. Specify the destination for the compressed data (eg, a file).
287
288As previously mentioned, the JPEG library delivers compressed data to a
289"data destination" module. The library includes one data destination
290module which knows how to write to a stdio stream. You can use your own
291destination module if you want to do something else, as discussed later.
292
293If you use the standard destination module, you must open the target stdio
294stream beforehand. Typical code for this step looks like:
295
296 FILE * outfile;
297 ...
298 if ((outfile = fopen(filename, "wb")) == NULL) {
299 fprintf(stderr, "can't open %s\n", filename);
300 exit(1);
301 }
302 jpeg_stdio_dest(&cinfo, outfile);
303
304where the last line invokes the standard destination module.
305
306WARNING: it is critical that the binary compressed data be delivered to the
307output file unchanged. On non-Unix systems the stdio library may perform
308newline translation or otherwise corrupt binary data. To suppress this
309behavior, you may need to use a "b" option to fopen (as shown above), or use
310setmode() or another routine to put the stdio stream in binary mode. See
311cjpeg.c and djpeg.c for code that has been found to work on many systems.
312
313You can select the data destination after setting other parameters (step 3),
314if that's more convenient. You may not change the destination between
315calling jpeg_start_compress() and jpeg_finish_compress().
316
317
3183. Set parameters for compression, including image size & colorspace.
319
320You must supply information about the source image by setting the following
321fields in the JPEG object (cinfo structure):
322
323 image_width Width of image, in pixels
324 image_height Height of image, in pixels
325 input_components Number of color channels (samples per pixel)
326 in_color_space Color space of source image
327
328The image dimensions are, hopefully, obvious. JPEG supports image dimensions
329of 1 to 64K pixels in either direction. The input color space is typically
330RGB or grayscale, and input_components is 3 or 1 accordingly. (See "Special
331color spaces", later, for more info.) The in_color_space field must be
332assigned one of the J_COLOR_SPACE enum constants, typically JCS_RGB or
333JCS_GRAYSCALE.
334
335JPEG has a large number of compression parameters that determine how the
336image is encoded. Most applications don't need or want to know about all
337these parameters. You can set all the parameters to reasonable defaults by
338calling jpeg_set_defaults(); then, if there are particular values you want
339to change, you can do so after that. The "Compression parameter selection"
340section tells about all the parameters.
341
342You must set in_color_space correctly before calling jpeg_set_defaults(),
343because the defaults depend on the source image colorspace. However the
344other three source image parameters need not be valid until you call
345jpeg_start_compress(). There's no harm in calling jpeg_set_defaults() more
346than once, if that happens to be convenient.
347
348Typical code for a 24-bit RGB source image is
349
350 cinfo.image_width = Width; /* image width and height, in pixels */
351 cinfo.image_height = Height;
352 cinfo.input_components = 3; /* # of color components per pixel */
353 cinfo.in_color_space = JCS_RGB; /* colorspace of input image */
354
355 jpeg_set_defaults(&cinfo);
356 /* Make optional parameter settings here */
357
358
3594. jpeg_start_compress(...);
360
361After you have established the data destination and set all the necessary
362source image info and other parameters, call jpeg_start_compress() to begin
363a compression cycle. This will initialize internal state, allocate working
364storage, and emit the first few bytes of the JPEG datastream header.
365
366Typical code:
367
368 jpeg_start_compress(&cinfo, TRUE);
369
370The "TRUE" parameter ensures that a complete JPEG interchange datastream
371will be written. This is appropriate in most cases. If you think you might
372want to use an abbreviated datastream, read the section on abbreviated
373datastreams, below.
374
375Once you have called jpeg_start_compress(), you may not alter any JPEG
376parameters or other fields of the JPEG object until you have completed
377the compression cycle.
378
379
3805. while (scan lines remain to be written)
381 jpeg_write_scanlines(...);
382
383Now write all the required image data by calling jpeg_write_scanlines()
384one or more times. You can pass one or more scanlines in each call, up
385to the total image height. In most applications it is convenient to pass
386just one or a few scanlines at a time. The expected format for the passed
387data is discussed under "Data formats", above.
388
389Image data should be written in top-to-bottom scanline order. The JPEG spec
390contains some weasel wording about how top and bottom are application-defined
391terms (a curious interpretation of the English language...) but if you want
392your files to be compatible with everyone else's, you WILL use top-to-bottom
393order. If the source data must be read in bottom-to-top order, you can use
394the JPEG library's virtual array mechanism to invert the data efficiently.
395Examples of this can be found in the sample application cjpeg.
396
397The library maintains a count of the number of scanlines written so far
398in the next_scanline field of the JPEG object. Usually you can just use
399this variable as the loop counter, so that the loop test looks like
400"while (cinfo.next_scanline < cinfo.image_height)".
401
402Code for this step depends heavily on the way that you store the source data.
403example.c shows the following code for the case of a full-size 2-D source
404array containing 3-byte RGB pixels:
405
406 JSAMPROW row_pointer[1]; /* pointer to a single row */
407 int row_stride; /* physical row width in buffer */
408
409 row_stride = image_width * 3; /* JSAMPLEs per row in image_buffer */
410
411 while (cinfo.next_scanline < cinfo.image_height) {
412 row_pointer[0] = & image_buffer[cinfo.next_scanline * row_stride];
413 jpeg_write_scanlines(&cinfo, row_pointer, 1);
414 }
415
416jpeg_write_scanlines() returns the number of scanlines actually written.
417This will normally be equal to the number passed in, so you can usually
418ignore the return value. It is different in just two cases:
419 * If you try to write more scanlines than the declared image height,
420 the additional scanlines are ignored.
421 * If you use a suspending data destination manager, output buffer overrun
422 will cause the compressor to return before accepting all the passed lines.
423 This feature is discussed under "I/O suspension", below. The normal
424 stdio destination manager will NOT cause this to happen.
425In any case, the return value is the same as the change in the value of
426next_scanline.
427
428
4296. jpeg_finish_compress(...);
430
431After all the image data has been written, call jpeg_finish_compress() to
432complete the compression cycle. This step is ESSENTIAL to ensure that the
433last bufferload of data is written to the data destination.
434jpeg_finish_compress() also releases working memory associated with the JPEG
435object.
436
437Typical code:
438
439 jpeg_finish_compress(&cinfo);
440
441If using the stdio destination manager, don't forget to close the output
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000442stdio stream (if necessary) afterwards.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000443
444If you have requested a multi-pass operating mode, such as Huffman code
445optimization, jpeg_finish_compress() will perform the additional passes using
446data buffered by the first pass. In this case jpeg_finish_compress() may take
447quite a while to complete. With the default compression parameters, this will
448not happen.
449
450It is an error to call jpeg_finish_compress() before writing the necessary
451total number of scanlines. If you wish to abort compression, call
452jpeg_abort() as discussed below.
453
454After completing a compression cycle, you may dispose of the JPEG object
455as discussed next, or you may use it to compress another image. In that case
456return to step 2, 3, or 4 as appropriate. If you do not change the
457destination manager, the new datastream will be written to the same target.
458If you do not change any JPEG parameters, the new datastream will be written
459with the same parameters as before. Note that you can change the input image
460dimensions freely between cycles, but if you change the input colorspace, you
461should call jpeg_set_defaults() to adjust for the new colorspace; and then
462you'll need to repeat all of step 3.
463
464
4657. Release the JPEG compression object.
466
467When you are done with a JPEG compression object, destroy it by calling
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000468jpeg_destroy_compress(). This will free all subsidiary memory (regardless of
469the previous state of the object). Or you can call jpeg_destroy(), which
470works for either compression or decompression objects --- this may be more
471convenient if you are sharing code between compression and decompression
472cases. (Actually, these routines are equivalent except for the declared type
473of the passed pointer. To avoid gripes from ANSI C compilers, jpeg_destroy()
474should be passed a j_common_ptr.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000475
476If you allocated the jpeg_compress_struct structure from malloc(), freeing
477it is your responsibility --- jpeg_destroy() won't. Ditto for the error
478handler structure.
479
480Typical code:
481
482 jpeg_destroy_compress(&cinfo);
483
484
4858. Aborting.
486
487If you decide to abort a compression cycle before finishing, you can clean up
488in either of two ways:
489
490* If you don't need the JPEG object any more, just call
491 jpeg_destroy_compress() or jpeg_destroy() to release memory. This is
492 legitimate at any point after calling jpeg_create_compress() --- in fact,
493 it's safe even if jpeg_create_compress() fails.
494
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000495* If you want to re-use the JPEG object, call jpeg_abort_compress(), or call
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000496 jpeg_abort() which works on both compression and decompression objects.
497 This will return the object to an idle state, releasing any working memory.
498 jpeg_abort() is allowed at any time after successful object creation.
499
500Note that cleaning up the data destination, if required, is your
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000501responsibility; neither of these routines will call term_destination().
502(See "Compressed data handling", below, for more about that.)
503
504jpeg_destroy() and jpeg_abort() are the only safe calls to make on a JPEG
505object that has reported an error by calling error_exit (see "Error handling"
506for more info). The internal state of such an object is likely to be out of
507whack. Either of these two routines will return the object to a known state.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000508
509
510Decompression details
511---------------------
512
513Here we revisit the JPEG decompression outline given in the overview.
514
5151. Allocate and initialize a JPEG decompression object.
516
517This is just like initialization for compression, as discussed above,
518except that the object is a "struct jpeg_decompress_struct" and you
519call jpeg_create_decompress(). Error handling is exactly the same.
520
521Typical code:
522
523 struct jpeg_decompress_struct cinfo;
524 struct jpeg_error_mgr jerr;
525 ...
526 cinfo.err = jpeg_std_error(&jerr);
527 jpeg_create_decompress(&cinfo);
528
529(Both here and in the IJG code, we usually use variable name "cinfo" for
530both compression and decompression objects.)
531
532
5332. Specify the source of the compressed data (eg, a file).
534
535As previously mentioned, the JPEG library reads compressed data from a "data
536source" module. The library includes one data source module which knows how
537to read from a stdio stream. You can use your own source module if you want
538to do something else, as discussed later.
539
540If you use the standard source module, you must open the source stdio stream
541beforehand. Typical code for this step looks like:
542
543 FILE * infile;
544 ...
545 if ((infile = fopen(filename, "rb")) == NULL) {
546 fprintf(stderr, "can't open %s\n", filename);
547 exit(1);
548 }
549 jpeg_stdio_src(&cinfo, infile);
550
551where the last line invokes the standard source module.
552
553WARNING: it is critical that the binary compressed data be read unchanged.
554On non-Unix systems the stdio library may perform newline translation or
555otherwise corrupt binary data. To suppress this behavior, you may need to use
556a "b" option to fopen (as shown above), or use setmode() or another routine to
557put the stdio stream in binary mode. See cjpeg.c and djpeg.c for code that
558has been found to work on many systems.
559
560You may not change the data source between calling jpeg_read_header() and
561jpeg_finish_decompress(). If you wish to read a series of JPEG images from
562a single source file, you should repeat the jpeg_read_header() to
563jpeg_finish_decompress() sequence without reinitializing either the JPEG
564object or the data source module; this prevents buffered input data from
565being discarded.
566
567
5683. Call jpeg_read_header() to obtain image info.
569
570Typical code for this step is just
571
572 jpeg_read_header(&cinfo, TRUE);
573
574This will read the source datastream header markers, up to the beginning
575of the compressed data proper. On return, the image dimensions and other
576info have been stored in the JPEG object. The application may wish to
577consult this information before selecting decompression parameters.
578
579More complex code is necessary if
580 * A suspending data source is used --- in that case jpeg_read_header()
581 may return before it has read all the header data. See "I/O suspension",
582 below. The normal stdio source manager will NOT cause this to happen.
583 * Abbreviated JPEG files are to be processed --- see the section on
584 abbreviated datastreams. Standard applications that deal only in
585 interchange JPEG files need not be concerned with this case either.
586
587It is permissible to stop at this point if you just wanted to find out the
588image dimensions and other header info for a JPEG file. In that case,
589call jpeg_destroy() when you are done with the JPEG object, or call
590jpeg_abort() to return it to an idle state before selecting a new data
591source and reading another header.
592
593
5944. Set parameters for decompression.
595
596jpeg_read_header() sets appropriate default decompression parameters based on
597the properties of the image (in particular, its colorspace). However, you
598may well want to alter these defaults before beginning the decompression.
599For example, the default is to produce full color output from a color file.
600If you want colormapped output you must ask for it. Other options allow the
601returned image to be scaled and allow various speed/quality tradeoffs to be
602selected. "Decompression parameter selection", below, gives details.
603
604If the defaults are appropriate, nothing need be done at this step.
605
606Note that all default values are set by each call to jpeg_read_header().
607If you reuse a decompression object, you cannot expect your parameter
608settings to be preserved across cycles, as you can for compression.
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000609You must set desired parameter values each time.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000610
611
6125. jpeg_start_decompress(...);
613
614Once the parameter values are satisfactory, call jpeg_start_decompress() to
615begin decompression. This will initialize internal state, allocate working
616memory, and prepare for returning data.
617
618Typical code is just
619
620 jpeg_start_decompress(&cinfo);
621
622If you have requested a multi-pass operating mode, such as 2-pass color
623quantization, jpeg_start_decompress() will do everything needed before data
624output can begin. In this case jpeg_start_decompress() may take quite a while
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000625to complete. With a single-scan (non progressive) JPEG file and default
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000626decompression parameters, this will not happen; jpeg_start_decompress() will
627return quickly.
628
629After this call, the final output image dimensions, including any requested
630scaling, are available in the JPEG object; so is the selected colormap, if
631colormapped output has been requested. Useful fields include
632
633 output_width image width and height, as scaled
634 output_height
635 out_color_components # of color components in out_color_space
636 output_components # of color components returned per pixel
637 colormap the selected colormap, if any
638 actual_number_of_colors number of entries in colormap
639
640output_components is 1 (a colormap index) when quantizing colors; otherwise it
641equals out_color_components. It is the number of JSAMPLE values that will be
642emitted per pixel in the output arrays.
643
644Typically you will need to allocate data buffers to hold the incoming image.
645You will need output_width * output_components JSAMPLEs per scanline in your
646output buffer, and a total of output_height scanlines will be returned.
647
648Note: if you are using the JPEG library's internal memory manager to allocate
649data buffers (as djpeg does), then the manager's protocol requires that you
650request large buffers *before* calling jpeg_start_decompress(). This is a
651little tricky since the output_XXX fields are not normally valid then. You
652can make them valid by calling jpeg_calc_output_dimensions() after setting the
653relevant parameters (scaling, output color space, and quantization flag).
654
655
6566. while (scan lines remain to be read)
657 jpeg_read_scanlines(...);
658
659Now you can read the decompressed image data by calling jpeg_read_scanlines()
660one or more times. At each call, you pass in the maximum number of scanlines
661to be read (ie, the height of your working buffer); jpeg_read_scanlines()
662will return up to that many lines. The return value is the number of lines
663actually read. The format of the returned data is discussed under "Data
Thomas G. Lanea8b67c41995-03-15 00:00:00 +0000664formats", above. Don't forget that grayscale and color JPEGs will return
665different data formats!
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000666
667Image data is returned in top-to-bottom scanline order. If you must write
668out the image in bottom-to-top order, you can use the JPEG library's virtual
669array mechanism to invert the data efficiently. Examples of this can be
670found in the sample application djpeg.
671
672The library maintains a count of the number of scanlines returned so far
673in the output_scanline field of the JPEG object. Usually you can just use
674this variable as the loop counter, so that the loop test looks like
675"while (cinfo.output_scanline < cinfo.output_height)". (Note that the test
676should NOT be against image_height, unless you never use scaling. The
677image_height field is the height of the original unscaled image.)
Thomas G. Lane9ba2f5e1994-12-07 00:00:00 +0000678The return value always equals the change in the value of output_scanline.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000679
680If you don't use a suspending data source, it is safe to assume that
681jpeg_read_scanlines() reads at least one scanline per call, until the
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +0000682bottom of the image has been reached.
683
684If you use a buffer larger than one scanline, it is NOT safe to assume that
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000685jpeg_read_scanlines() fills it. (The current implementation returns only a
686few scanlines per call, no matter how large a buffer you pass.) So you must
687always provide a loop that calls jpeg_read_scanlines() repeatedly until the
688whole image has been read.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000689
690
6917. jpeg_finish_decompress(...);
692
693After all the image data has been read, call jpeg_finish_decompress() to
694complete the decompression cycle. This causes working memory associated
695with the JPEG object to be released.
696
697Typical code:
698
699 jpeg_finish_decompress(&cinfo);
700
701If using the stdio source manager, don't forget to close the source stdio
702stream if necessary.
703
704It is an error to call jpeg_finish_decompress() before reading the correct
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000705total number of scanlines. If you wish to abort decompression, call
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000706jpeg_abort() as discussed below.
707
708After completing a decompression cycle, you may dispose of the JPEG object as
709discussed next, or you may use it to decompress another image. In that case
710return to step 2 or 3 as appropriate. If you do not change the source
711manager, the next image will be read from the same source.
712
713
7148. Release the JPEG decompression object.
715
716When you are done with a JPEG decompression object, destroy it by calling
717jpeg_destroy_decompress() or jpeg_destroy(). The previous discussion of
718destroying compression objects applies here too.
719
720Typical code:
721
722 jpeg_destroy_decompress(&cinfo);
723
724
7259. Aborting.
726
727You can abort a decompression cycle by calling jpeg_destroy_decompress() or
728jpeg_destroy() if you don't need the JPEG object any more, or
729jpeg_abort_decompress() or jpeg_abort() if you want to reuse the object.
730The previous discussion of aborting compression cycles applies here too.
731
732
733Mechanics of usage: include files, linking, etc
734-----------------------------------------------
735
736Applications using the JPEG library should include the header file jpeglib.h
737to obtain declarations of data types and routines. Before including
738jpeglib.h, include system headers that define at least the typedefs FILE and
739size_t. On ANSI-conforming systems, including <stdio.h> is sufficient; on
740older Unix systems, you may need <sys/types.h> to define size_t.
741
742If the application needs to refer to individual JPEG library error codes, also
743include jerror.h to define those symbols.
744
745jpeglib.h indirectly includes the files jconfig.h and jmorecfg.h. If you are
746installing the JPEG header files in a system directory, you will want to
747install all four files: jpeglib.h, jerror.h, jconfig.h, jmorecfg.h.
748
749The most convenient way to include the JPEG code into your executable program
750is to prepare a library file ("libjpeg.a", or a corresponding name on non-Unix
751machines) and reference it at your link step. If you use only half of the
752library (only compression or only decompression), only that much code will be
753included from the library, unless your linker is hopelessly brain-damaged.
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +0000754The supplied makefiles build libjpeg.a automatically (see install.txt).
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000755
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000756While you can build the JPEG library as a shared library if the whim strikes
757you, we don't really recommend it. The trouble with shared libraries is that
758at some point you'll probably try to substitute a new version of the library
759without recompiling the calling applications. That generally doesn't work
760because the parameter struct declarations usually change with each new
761version. In other words, the library's API is *not* guaranteed binary
762compatible across versions; we only try to ensure source-code compatibility.
763(In hindsight, it might have been smarter to hide the parameter structs from
764applications and introduce a ton of access functions instead. Too late now,
765however.)
766
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000767On some systems your application may need to set up a signal handler to ensure
768that temporary files are deleted if the program is interrupted. This is most
769critical if you are on MS-DOS and use the jmemdos.c memory manager back end;
770it will try to grab extended memory for temp files, and that space will NOT be
771freed automatically. See cjpeg.c or djpeg.c for an example signal handler.
772
773It may be worth pointing out that the core JPEG library does not actually
774require the stdio library: only the default source/destination managers and
775error handler need it. You can use the library in a stdio-less environment
776if you replace those modules and use jmemnobs.c (or another memory manager of
777your own devising). More info about the minimum system library requirements
778may be found in jinclude.h.
779
780
781ADVANCED FEATURES
782=================
783
784Compression parameter selection
785-------------------------------
786
787This section describes all the optional parameters you can set for JPEG
788compression, as well as the "helper" routines provided to assist in this
789task. Proper setting of some parameters requires detailed understanding
790of the JPEG standard; if you don't know what a parameter is for, it's best
791not to mess with it! See REFERENCES in the README file for pointers to
792more info about JPEG.
793
794It's a good idea to call jpeg_set_defaults() first, even if you plan to set
795all the parameters; that way your code is more likely to work with future JPEG
796libraries that have additional parameters. For the same reason, we recommend
797you use a helper routine where one is provided, in preference to twiddling
798cinfo fields directly.
799
800The helper routines are:
801
802jpeg_set_defaults (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
803 This routine sets all JPEG parameters to reasonable defaults, using
804 only the input image's color space (field in_color_space, which must
805 already be set in cinfo). Many applications will only need to use
806 this routine and perhaps jpeg_set_quality().
807
808jpeg_set_colorspace (j_compress_ptr cinfo, J_COLOR_SPACE colorspace)
809 Sets the JPEG file's colorspace (field jpeg_color_space) as specified,
810 and sets other color-space-dependent parameters appropriately. See
811 "Special color spaces", below, before using this. A large number of
812 parameters, including all per-component parameters, are set by this
813 routine; if you want to twiddle individual parameters you should call
814 jpeg_set_colorspace() before rather than after.
815
816jpeg_default_colorspace (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
817 Selects an appropriate JPEG colorspace based on cinfo->in_color_space,
818 and calls jpeg_set_colorspace(). This is actually a subroutine of
819 jpeg_set_defaults(). It's broken out in case you want to change
820 just the colorspace-dependent JPEG parameters.
821
822jpeg_set_quality (j_compress_ptr cinfo, int quality, boolean force_baseline)
823 Constructs JPEG quantization tables appropriate for the indicated
824 quality setting. The quality value is expressed on the 0..100 scale
825 recommended by IJG (cjpeg's "-quality" switch uses this routine).
826 Note that the exact mapping from quality values to tables may change
827 in future IJG releases as more is learned about DCT quantization.
828 If the force_baseline parameter is TRUE, then the quantization table
829 entries are constrained to the range 1..255 for full JPEG baseline
830 compatibility. In the current implementation, this only makes a
831 difference for quality settings below 25, and it effectively prevents
832 very small/low quality files from being generated. The IJG decoder
833 is capable of reading the non-baseline files generated at low quality
834 settings when force_baseline is FALSE, but other decoders may not be.
835
836jpeg_set_linear_quality (j_compress_ptr cinfo, int scale_factor,
837 boolean force_baseline)
838 Same as jpeg_set_quality() except that the generated tables are the
839 sample tables given in the JPEC spec section K.1, multiplied by the
840 specified scale factor (which is expressed as a percentage; thus
841 scale_factor = 100 reproduces the spec's tables). Note that larger
842 scale factors give lower quality. This entry point is useful for
843 conforming to the Adobe PostScript DCT conventions, but we do not
844 recommend linear scaling as a user-visible quality scale otherwise.
845 force_baseline again constrains the computed table entries to 1..255.
846
847int jpeg_quality_scaling (int quality)
848 Converts a value on the IJG-recommended quality scale to a linear
849 scaling percentage. Note that this routine may change or go away
850 in future releases --- IJG may choose to adopt a scaling method that
851 can't be expressed as a simple scalar multiplier, in which case the
852 premise of this routine collapses. Caveat user.
853
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +0000854jpeg_default_qtables (j_compress_ptr cinfo, boolean force_baseline)
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856 Set default quantization tables with linear q_scale_factor[] values
857 (see below).
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +0000858
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000859jpeg_add_quant_table (j_compress_ptr cinfo, int which_tbl,
860 const unsigned int *basic_table,
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000861 int scale_factor, boolean force_baseline)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000862 Allows an arbitrary quantization table to be created. which_tbl
863 indicates which table slot to fill. basic_table points to an array
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +0000864 of 64 unsigned ints given in normal array order. These values are
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000865 multiplied by scale_factor/100 and then clamped to the range 1..65535
866 (or to 1..255 if force_baseline is TRUE).
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +0000867 CAUTION: prior to library version 6a, jpeg_add_quant_table expected
868 the basic table to be given in JPEG zigzag order. If you need to
869 write code that works with either older or newer versions of this
870 routine, you must check the library version number. Something like
871 "#if JPEG_LIB_VERSION >= 61" is the right test.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000872
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000873jpeg_simple_progression (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
874 Generates a default scan script for writing a progressive-JPEG file.
875 This is the recommended method of creating a progressive file,
876 unless you want to make a custom scan sequence. You must ensure that
877 the JPEG color space is set correctly before calling this routine.
878
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000879
880Compression parameters (cinfo fields) include:
881
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000882J_DCT_METHOD dct_method
883 Selects the algorithm used for the DCT step. Choices are:
884 JDCT_ISLOW: slow but accurate integer algorithm
885 JDCT_IFAST: faster, less accurate integer method
886 JDCT_FLOAT: floating-point method
887 JDCT_DEFAULT: default method (normally JDCT_ISLOW)
888 JDCT_FASTEST: fastest method (normally JDCT_IFAST)
Thomas G. Lanea8b67c41995-03-15 00:00:00 +0000889 The FLOAT method is very slightly more accurate than the ISLOW method,
890 but may give different results on different machines due to varying
891 roundoff behavior. The integer methods should give the same results
892 on all machines. On machines with sufficiently fast FP hardware, the
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000893 floating-point method may also be the fastest. The IFAST method is
894 considerably less accurate than the other two; its use is not
895 recommended if high quality is a concern. JDCT_DEFAULT and
896 JDCT_FASTEST are macros configurable by each installation.
897
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000898J_COLOR_SPACE jpeg_color_space
899int num_components
900 The JPEG color space and corresponding number of components; see
901 "Special color spaces", below, for more info. We recommend using
902 jpeg_set_color_space() if you want to change these.
903
904boolean optimize_coding
905 TRUE causes the compressor to compute optimal Huffman coding tables
906 for the image. This requires an extra pass over the data and
907 therefore costs a good deal of space and time. The default is
908 FALSE, which tells the compressor to use the supplied or default
909 Huffman tables. In most cases optimal tables save only a few percent
910 of file size compared to the default tables. Note that when this is
911 TRUE, you need not supply Huffman tables at all, and any you do
912 supply will be overwritten.
913
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000914unsigned int restart_interval
915int restart_in_rows
916 To emit restart markers in the JPEG file, set one of these nonzero.
917 Set restart_interval to specify the exact interval in MCU blocks.
918 Set restart_in_rows to specify the interval in MCU rows. (If
919 restart_in_rows is not 0, then restart_interval is set after the
920 image width in MCUs is computed.) Defaults are zero (no restarts).
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000921 One restart marker per MCU row is often a good choice.
922 NOTE: the overhead of restart markers is higher in grayscale JPEG
923 files than in color files, and MUCH higher in progressive JPEGs.
924 If you use restarts, you may want to use larger intervals in those
925 cases.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000926
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000927const jpeg_scan_info * scan_info
928int num_scans
929 By default, scan_info is NULL; this causes the compressor to write a
930 single-scan sequential JPEG file. If not NULL, scan_info points to
931 an array of scan definition records of length num_scans. The
932 compressor will then write a JPEG file having one scan for each scan
933 definition record. This is used to generate noninterleaved or
934 progressive JPEG files. The library checks that the scan array
935 defines a valid JPEG scan sequence. (jpeg_simple_progression creates
936 a suitable scan definition array for progressive JPEG.) This is
937 discussed further under "Progressive JPEG support".
938
939int smoothing_factor
940 If non-zero, the input image is smoothed; the value should be 1 for
941 minimal smoothing to 100 for maximum smoothing. Consult jcsample.c
942 for details of the smoothing algorithm. The default is zero.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000943
944boolean write_JFIF_header
945 If TRUE, a JFIF APP0 marker is emitted. jpeg_set_defaults() and
946 jpeg_set_colorspace() set this TRUE if a JFIF-legal JPEG color space
947 (ie, YCbCr or grayscale) is selected, otherwise FALSE.
948
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000949UINT8 JFIF_major_version
950UINT8 JFIF_minor_version
951 The version number to be written into the JFIF marker.
952 jpeg_set_defaults() initializes the version to 1.01 (major=minor=1).
953 You should set it to 1.02 (major=1, minor=2) if you plan to write
954 any JFIF 1.02 extension markers.
955
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000956UINT8 density_unit
957UINT16 X_density
958UINT16 Y_density
959 The resolution information to be written into the JFIF marker;
960 not used otherwise. density_unit may be 0 for unknown,
961 1 for dots/inch, or 2 for dots/cm. The default values are 0,1,1
962 indicating square pixels of unknown size.
963
964boolean write_Adobe_marker
965 If TRUE, an Adobe APP14 marker is emitted. jpeg_set_defaults() and
966 jpeg_set_colorspace() set this TRUE if JPEG color space RGB, CMYK,
967 or YCCK is selected, otherwise FALSE. It is generally a bad idea
968 to set both write_JFIF_header and write_Adobe_marker. In fact,
969 you probably shouldn't change the default settings at all --- the
970 default behavior ensures that the JPEG file's color space can be
971 recognized by the decoder.
972
973JQUANT_TBL * quant_tbl_ptrs[NUM_QUANT_TBLS]
974 Pointers to coefficient quantization tables, one per table slot,
975 or NULL if no table is defined for a slot. Usually these should
976 be set via one of the above helper routines; jpeg_add_quant_table()
977 is general enough to define any quantization table. The other
978 routines will set up table slot 0 for luminance quality and table
979 slot 1 for chrominance.
980
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +0000981int q_scale_factor[NUM_QUANT_TBLS]
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983 Linear quantization scaling factors (0-100, default 100)
984 for use with jpeg_default_qtables().
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +0000985 See rdswitch.c and cjpeg.c for an example of usage.
DRC39ea5622010-10-12 01:55:31 +0000986 Note that the q_scale_factor[] values use "linear" scales, so JPEG
987 quality levels chosen by the user must be converted to these scales
DRC66a69f02012-01-31 10:19:29 +0000988 using jpeg_quality_scaling(). Here is an example that corresponds to
DRC39ea5622010-10-12 01:55:31 +0000989 cjpeg -quality 90,70:
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +0000990
991 jpeg_set_defaults(cinfo);
992
993 /* Set luminance quality 90. */
994 cinfo->q_scale_factor[0] = jpeg_quality_scaling(90);
995 /* Set chrominance quality 70. */
996 cinfo->q_scale_factor[1] = jpeg_quality_scaling(70);
997
998 jpeg_default_qtables(cinfo, force_baseline);
999
DRC39ea5622010-10-12 01:55:31 +00001000 CAUTION: Setting separate quality levels for chrominance and luminance
1001 is mainly only useful if chrominance subsampling is disabled. 2x2
1002 chrominance subsampling (AKA "4:2:0") is the default, but you can
1003 explicitly disable subsampling as follows:
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +00001004
1005 cinfo->comp_info[0].v_samp_factor = 1;
1006 cinfo->comp_info[0].h_samp_factor = 1;
1007
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001008JHUFF_TBL * dc_huff_tbl_ptrs[NUM_HUFF_TBLS]
1009JHUFF_TBL * ac_huff_tbl_ptrs[NUM_HUFF_TBLS]
1010 Pointers to Huffman coding tables, one per table slot, or NULL if
1011 no table is defined for a slot. Slots 0 and 1 are filled with the
1012 JPEG sample tables by jpeg_set_defaults(). If you need to allocate
1013 more table structures, jpeg_alloc_huff_table() may be used.
1014 Note that optimal Huffman tables can be computed for an image
1015 by setting optimize_coding, as discussed above; there's seldom
1016 any need to mess with providing your own Huffman tables.
1017
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1020The actual dimensions of the JPEG image that will be written to the file are
1021given by the following fields. These are computed from the input image
1022dimensions and the compression parameters by jpeg_start_compress(). You can
1023also call jpeg_calc_jpeg_dimensions() to obtain the values that will result
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +00001024from the current parameter settings. This can be useful if you are trying
1025to pick a scaling ratio that will get close to a desired target size.
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +00001026
1027JDIMENSION jpeg_width Actual dimensions of output image.
1028JDIMENSION jpeg_height
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001029
1030
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001031Per-component parameters are stored in the struct cinfo.comp_info[i] for
1032component number i. Note that components here refer to components of the
1033JPEG color space, *not* the source image color space. A suitably large
1034comp_info[] array is allocated by jpeg_set_defaults(); if you choose not
1035to use that routine, it's up to you to allocate the array.
1036
1037int component_id
1038 The one-byte identifier code to be recorded in the JPEG file for
1039 this component. For the standard color spaces, we recommend you
1040 leave the default values alone.
1041
1042int h_samp_factor
1043int v_samp_factor
1044 Horizontal and vertical sampling factors for the component; must
1045 be 1..4 according to the JPEG standard. Note that larger sampling
1046 factors indicate a higher-resolution component; many people find
1047 this behavior quite unintuitive. The default values are 2,2 for
1048 luminance components and 1,1 for chrominance components, except
1049 for grayscale where 1,1 is used.
1050
1051int quant_tbl_no
1052 Quantization table number for component. The default value is
1053 0 for luminance components and 1 for chrominance components.
1054
1055int dc_tbl_no
1056int ac_tbl_no
1057 DC and AC entropy coding table numbers. The default values are
1058 0 for luminance components and 1 for chrominance components.
1059
1060int component_index
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001061 Must equal the component's index in comp_info[]. (Beginning in
1062 release v6, the compressor library will fill this in automatically;
1063 you don't have to.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001064
1065
1066Decompression parameter selection
1067---------------------------------
1068
1069Decompression parameter selection is somewhat simpler than compression
1070parameter selection, since all of the JPEG internal parameters are
1071recorded in the source file and need not be supplied by the application.
1072(Unless you are working with abbreviated files, in which case see
1073"Abbreviated datastreams", below.) Decompression parameters control
1074the postprocessing done on the image to deliver it in a format suitable
1075for the application's use. Many of the parameters control speed/quality
1076tradeoffs, in which faster decompression may be obtained at the price of
1077a poorer-quality image. The defaults select the highest quality (slowest)
1078processing.
1079
1080The following fields in the JPEG object are set by jpeg_read_header() and
1081may be useful to the application in choosing decompression parameters:
1082
1083JDIMENSION image_width Width and height of image
1084JDIMENSION image_height
1085int num_components Number of color components
1086J_COLOR_SPACE jpeg_color_space Colorspace of image
1087boolean saw_JFIF_marker TRUE if a JFIF APP0 marker was seen
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00001088 UINT8 JFIF_major_version Version information from JFIF marker
1089 UINT8 JFIF_minor_version
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001090 UINT8 density_unit Resolution data from JFIF marker
1091 UINT16 X_density
1092 UINT16 Y_density
1093boolean saw_Adobe_marker TRUE if an Adobe APP14 marker was seen
1094 UINT8 Adobe_transform Color transform code from Adobe marker
1095
1096The JPEG color space, unfortunately, is something of a guess since the JPEG
1097standard proper does not provide a way to record it. In practice most files
1098adhere to the JFIF or Adobe conventions, and the decoder will recognize these
1099correctly. See "Special color spaces", below, for more info.
1100
1101
1102The decompression parameters that determine the basic properties of the
1103returned image are:
1104
1105J_COLOR_SPACE out_color_space
1106 Output color space. jpeg_read_header() sets an appropriate default
1107 based on jpeg_color_space; typically it will be RGB or grayscale.
1108 The application can change this field to request output in a different
1109 colorspace. For example, set it to JCS_GRAYSCALE to get grayscale
1110 output from a color file. (This is useful for previewing: grayscale
1111 output is faster than full color since the color components need not
1112 be processed.) Note that not all possible color space transforms are
1113 currently implemented; you may need to extend jdcolor.c if you want an
1114 unusual conversion.
1115
1116unsigned int scale_num, scale_denom
1117 Scale the image by the fraction scale_num/scale_denom. Default is
1118 1/1, or no scaling. Currently, the only supported scaling ratios
DRC27fb3fc2012-01-28 01:48:07 +00001119 are M/8 with all M from 1 to 16, or any reduced fraction thereof (such
1120 as 1/2, 3/4, etc.) (The library design allows for arbitrary
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001121 scaling ratios but this is not likely to be implemented any time soon.)
1122 Smaller scaling ratios permit significantly faster decoding since
1123 fewer pixels need be processed and a simpler IDCT method can be used.
1124
1125boolean quantize_colors
1126 If set TRUE, colormapped output will be delivered. Default is FALSE,
1127 meaning that full-color output will be delivered.
1128
1129The next three parameters are relevant only if quantize_colors is TRUE.
1130
1131int desired_number_of_colors
1132 Maximum number of colors to use in generating a library-supplied color
1133 map (the actual number of colors is returned in a different field).
1134 Default 256. Ignored when the application supplies its own color map.
1135
1136boolean two_pass_quantize
1137 If TRUE, an extra pass over the image is made to select a custom color
1138 map for the image. This usually looks a lot better than the one-size-
1139 fits-all colormap that is used otherwise. Default is TRUE. Ignored
1140 when the application supplies its own color map.
1141
1142J_DITHER_MODE dither_mode
1143 Selects color dithering method. Supported values are:
1144 JDITHER_NONE no dithering: fast, very low quality
1145 JDITHER_ORDERED ordered dither: moderate speed and quality
1146 JDITHER_FS Floyd-Steinberg dither: slow, high quality
1147 Default is JDITHER_FS. (At present, ordered dither is implemented
1148 only in the single-pass, standard-colormap case. If you ask for
1149 ordered dither when two_pass_quantize is TRUE or when you supply
1150 an external color map, you'll get F-S dithering.)
1151
1152When quantize_colors is TRUE, the target color map is described by the next
1153two fields. colormap is set to NULL by jpeg_read_header(). The application
1154can supply a color map by setting colormap non-NULL and setting
1155actual_number_of_colors to the map size. Otherwise, jpeg_start_decompress()
1156selects a suitable color map and sets these two fields itself.
1157[Implementation restriction: at present, an externally supplied colormap is
1158only accepted for 3-component output color spaces.]
1159
1160JSAMPARRAY colormap
1161 The color map, represented as a 2-D pixel array of out_color_components
1162 rows and actual_number_of_colors columns. Ignored if not quantizing.
Thomas G. Lanea8b67c41995-03-15 00:00:00 +00001163 CAUTION: if the JPEG library creates its own colormap, the storage
1164 pointed to by this field is released by jpeg_finish_decompress().
1165 Copy the colormap somewhere else first, if you want to save it.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001166
1167int actual_number_of_colors
1168 The number of colors in the color map.
1169
1170Additional decompression parameters that the application may set include:
1171
1172J_DCT_METHOD dct_method
1173 Selects the algorithm used for the DCT step. Choices are the same
1174 as described above for compression.
1175
1176boolean do_fancy_upsampling
1177 If TRUE, do careful upsampling of chroma components. If FALSE,
1178 a faster but sloppier method is used. Default is TRUE. The visual
1179 impact of the sloppier method is often very small.
1180
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001181boolean do_block_smoothing
1182 If TRUE, interblock smoothing is applied in early stages of decoding
1183 progressive JPEG files; if FALSE, not. Default is TRUE. Early
1184 progression stages look "fuzzy" with smoothing, "blocky" without.
1185 In any case, block smoothing ceases to be applied after the first few
1186 AC coefficients are known to full accuracy, so it is relevant only
1187 when using buffered-image mode for progressive images.
1188
1189boolean enable_1pass_quant
1190boolean enable_external_quant
1191boolean enable_2pass_quant
1192 These are significant only in buffered-image mode, which is
1193 described in its own section below.
1194
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001195
1196The output image dimensions are given by the following fields. These are
1197computed from the source image dimensions and the decompression parameters
1198by jpeg_start_decompress(). You can also call jpeg_calc_output_dimensions()
1199to obtain the values that will result from the current parameter settings.
1200This can be useful if you are trying to pick a scaling ratio that will get
1201close to a desired target size. It's also important if you are using the
1202JPEG library's memory manager to allocate output buffer space, because you
1203are supposed to request such buffers *before* jpeg_start_decompress().
1204
1205JDIMENSION output_width Actual dimensions of output image.
1206JDIMENSION output_height
1207int out_color_components Number of color components in out_color_space.
1208int output_components Number of color components returned.
1209int rec_outbuf_height Recommended height of scanline buffer.
1210
1211When quantizing colors, output_components is 1, indicating a single color map
1212index per pixel. Otherwise it equals out_color_components. The output arrays
1213are required to be output_width * output_components JSAMPLEs wide.
1214
1215rec_outbuf_height is the recommended minimum height (in scanlines) of the
1216buffer passed to jpeg_read_scanlines(). If the buffer is smaller, the
1217library will still work, but time will be wasted due to unnecessary data
1218copying. In high-quality modes, rec_outbuf_height is always 1, but some
1219faster, lower-quality modes set it to larger values (typically 2 to 4).
1220If you are going to ask for a high-speed processing mode, you may as well
1221go to the trouble of honoring rec_outbuf_height so as to avoid data copying.
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00001222(An output buffer larger than rec_outbuf_height lines is OK, but won't
1223provide any material speed improvement over that height.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001224
1225
1226Special color spaces
1227--------------------
1228
1229The JPEG standard itself is "color blind" and doesn't specify any particular
1230color space. It is customary to convert color data to a luminance/chrominance
1231color space before compressing, since this permits greater compression. The
1232existing de-facto JPEG file format standards specify YCbCr or grayscale data
1233(JFIF), or grayscale, RGB, YCbCr, CMYK, or YCCK (Adobe). For special
1234applications such as multispectral images, other color spaces can be used,
1235but it must be understood that such files will be unportable.
1236
1237The JPEG library can handle the most common colorspace conversions (namely
1238RGB <=> YCbCr and CMYK <=> YCCK). It can also deal with data of an unknown
1239color space, passing it through without conversion. If you deal extensively
1240with an unusual color space, you can easily extend the library to understand
1241additional color spaces and perform appropriate conversions.
1242
1243For compression, the source data's color space is specified by field
1244in_color_space. This is transformed to the JPEG file's color space given
1245by jpeg_color_space. jpeg_set_defaults() chooses a reasonable JPEG color
1246space depending on in_color_space, but you can override this by calling
1247jpeg_set_colorspace(). Of course you must select a supported transformation.
1248jccolor.c currently supports the following transformations:
1249 RGB => YCbCr
1250 RGB => GRAYSCALE
1251 YCbCr => GRAYSCALE
1252 CMYK => YCCK
1253plus the null transforms: GRAYSCALE => GRAYSCALE, RGB => RGB,
1254YCbCr => YCbCr, CMYK => CMYK, YCCK => YCCK, and UNKNOWN => UNKNOWN.
1255
1256The de-facto file format standards (JFIF and Adobe) specify APPn markers that
1257indicate the color space of the JPEG file. It is important to ensure that
1258these are written correctly, or omitted if the JPEG file's color space is not
1259one of the ones supported by the de-facto standards. jpeg_set_colorspace()
1260will set the compression parameters to include or omit the APPn markers
1261properly, so long as it is told the truth about the JPEG color space.
1262For example, if you are writing some random 3-component color space without
1263conversion, don't try to fake out the library by setting in_color_space and
1264jpeg_color_space to JCS_YCbCr; use JCS_UNKNOWN. You may want to write an
1265APPn marker of your own devising to identify the colorspace --- see "Special
1266markers", below.
1267
1268When told that the color space is UNKNOWN, the library will default to using
1269luminance-quality compression parameters for all color components. You may
1270well want to change these parameters. See the source code for
1271jpeg_set_colorspace(), in jcparam.c, for details.
1272
1273For decompression, the JPEG file's color space is given in jpeg_color_space,
1274and this is transformed to the output color space out_color_space.
1275jpeg_read_header's setting of jpeg_color_space can be relied on if the file
1276conforms to JFIF or Adobe conventions, but otherwise it is no better than a
1277guess. If you know the JPEG file's color space for certain, you can override
1278jpeg_read_header's guess by setting jpeg_color_space. jpeg_read_header also
1279selects a default output color space based on (its guess of) jpeg_color_space;
1280set out_color_space to override this. Again, you must select a supported
1281transformation. jdcolor.c currently supports
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001282 YCbCr => RGB
Guido Vollbeding5829cb22012-01-15 00:00:00 +00001283 YCbCr => GRAYSCALE
1284 RGB => GRAYSCALE
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00001285 GRAYSCALE => RGB
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001286 YCCK => CMYK
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00001287as well as the null transforms. (Since GRAYSCALE=>RGB is provided, an
1288application can force grayscale JPEGs to look like color JPEGs if it only
1289wants to handle one case.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001290
1291The two-pass color quantizer, jquant2.c, is specialized to handle RGB data
1292(it weights distances appropriately for RGB colors). You'll need to modify
1293the code if you want to use it for non-RGB output color spaces. Note that
1294jquant2.c is used to map to an application-supplied colormap as well as for
1295the normal two-pass colormap selection process.
1296
1297CAUTION: it appears that Adobe Photoshop writes inverted data in CMYK JPEG
1298files: 0 represents 100% ink coverage, rather than 0% ink as you'd expect.
1299This is arguably a bug in Photoshop, but if you need to work with Photoshop
1300CMYK files, you will have to deal with it in your application. We cannot
1301"fix" this in the library by inverting the data during the CMYK<=>YCCK
1302transform, because that would break other applications, notably Ghostscript.
1303Photoshop versions prior to 3.0 write EPS files containing JPEG-encoded CMYK
1304data in the same inverted-YCCK representation used in bare JPEG files, but
1305the surrounding PostScript code performs an inversion using the PS image
1306operator. I am told that Photoshop 3.0 will write uninverted YCCK in
1307EPS/JPEG files, and will omit the PS-level inversion. (But the data
1308polarity used in bare JPEG files will not change in 3.0.) In either case,
1309the JPEG library must not invert the data itself, or else Ghostscript would
1310read these EPS files incorrectly.
1311
1312
1313Error handling
1314--------------
1315
1316When the default error handler is used, any error detected inside the JPEG
1317routines will cause a message to be printed on stderr, followed by exit().
1318You can supply your own error handling routines to override this behavior
1319and to control the treatment of nonfatal warnings and trace/debug messages.
1320The file example.c illustrates the most common case, which is to have the
1321application regain control after an error rather than exiting.
1322
1323The JPEG library never writes any message directly; it always goes through
1324the error handling routines. Three classes of messages are recognized:
1325 * Fatal errors: the library cannot continue.
1326 * Warnings: the library can continue, but the data is corrupt, and a
1327 damaged output image is likely to result.
1328 * Trace/informational messages. These come with a trace level indicating
1329 the importance of the message; you can control the verbosity of the
1330 program by adjusting the maximum trace level that will be displayed.
1331
1332You may, if you wish, simply replace the entire JPEG error handling module
1333(jerror.c) with your own code. However, you can avoid code duplication by
1334only replacing some of the routines depending on the behavior you need.
1335This is accomplished by calling jpeg_std_error() as usual, but then overriding
1336some of the method pointers in the jpeg_error_mgr struct, as illustrated by
1337example.c.
1338
1339All of the error handling routines will receive a pointer to the JPEG object
1340(a j_common_ptr which points to either a jpeg_compress_struct or a
1341jpeg_decompress_struct; if you need to tell which, test the is_decompressor
1342field). This struct includes a pointer to the error manager struct in its
1343"err" field. Frequently, custom error handler routines will need to access
1344additional data which is not known to the JPEG library or the standard error
1345handler. The most convenient way to do this is to embed either the JPEG
1346object or the jpeg_error_mgr struct in a larger structure that contains
1347additional fields; then casting the passed pointer provides access to the
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00001348additional fields. Again, see example.c for one way to do it. (Beginning
1349with IJG version 6b, there is also a void pointer "client_data" in each
1350JPEG object, which the application can also use to find related data.
1351The library does not touch client_data at all.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001352
1353The individual methods that you might wish to override are:
1354
1355error_exit (j_common_ptr cinfo)
1356 Receives control for a fatal error. Information sufficient to
1357 generate the error message has been stored in cinfo->err; call
1358 output_message to display it. Control must NOT return to the caller;
1359 generally this routine will exit() or longjmp() somewhere.
1360 Typically you would override this routine to get rid of the exit()
1361 default behavior. Note that if you continue processing, you should
1362 clean up the JPEG object with jpeg_abort() or jpeg_destroy().
1363
1364output_message (j_common_ptr cinfo)
1365 Actual output of any JPEG message. Override this to send messages
1366 somewhere other than stderr. Note that this method does not know
1367 how to generate a message, only where to send it.
1368
1369format_message (j_common_ptr cinfo, char * buffer)
1370 Constructs a readable error message string based on the error info
1371 stored in cinfo->err. This method is called by output_message. Few
1372 applications should need to override this method. One possible
1373 reason for doing so is to implement dynamic switching of error message
1374 language.
1375
1376emit_message (j_common_ptr cinfo, int msg_level)
1377 Decide whether or not to emit a warning or trace message; if so,
1378 calls output_message. The main reason for overriding this method
1379 would be to abort on warnings. msg_level is -1 for warnings,
1380 0 and up for trace messages.
1381
1382Only error_exit() and emit_message() are called from the rest of the JPEG
1383library; the other two are internal to the error handler.
1384
1385The actual message texts are stored in an array of strings which is pointed to
1386by the field err->jpeg_message_table. The messages are numbered from 0 to
1387err->last_jpeg_message, and it is these code numbers that are used in the
1388JPEG library code. You could replace the message texts (for instance, with
1389messages in French or German) by changing the message table pointer. See
1390jerror.h for the default texts. CAUTION: this table will almost certainly
1391change or grow from one library version to the next.
1392
1393It may be useful for an application to add its own message texts that are
1394handled by the same mechanism. The error handler supports a second "add-on"
1395message table for this purpose. To define an addon table, set the pointer
1396err->addon_message_table and the message numbers err->first_addon_message and
1397err->last_addon_message. If you number the addon messages beginning at 1000
1398or so, you won't have to worry about conflicts with the library's built-in
1399messages. See the sample applications cjpeg/djpeg for an example of using
1400addon messages (the addon messages are defined in cderror.h).
1401
1402Actual invocation of the error handler is done via macros defined in jerror.h:
1403 ERREXITn(...) for fatal errors
1404 WARNMSn(...) for corrupt-data warnings
1405 TRACEMSn(...) for trace and informational messages.
1406These macros store the message code and any additional parameters into the
1407error handler struct, then invoke the error_exit() or emit_message() method.
1408The variants of each macro are for varying numbers of additional parameters.
1409The additional parameters are inserted into the generated message using
1410standard printf() format codes.
1411
1412See jerror.h and jerror.c for further details.
1413
1414
1415Compressed data handling (source and destination managers)
1416----------------------------------------------------------
1417
1418The JPEG compression library sends its compressed data to a "destination
1419manager" module. The default destination manager just writes the data to a
Guido Vollbeding989630f2010-01-10 00:00:00 +00001420memory buffer or to a stdio stream, but you can provide your own manager to
1421do something else. Similarly, the decompression library calls a "source
1422manager" to obtain the compressed data; you can provide your own source
1423manager if you want the data to come from somewhere other than a memory
1424buffer or a stdio stream.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001425
1426In both cases, compressed data is processed a bufferload at a time: the
1427destination or source manager provides a work buffer, and the library invokes
1428the manager only when the buffer is filled or emptied. (You could define a
1429one-character buffer to force the manager to be invoked for each byte, but
1430that would be rather inefficient.) The buffer's size and location are
Guido Vollbeding989630f2010-01-10 00:00:00 +00001431controlled by the manager, not by the library. For example, the memory
1432source manager just makes the buffer pointer and length point to the original
1433data in memory. In this case the buffer-reload procedure will be invoked
1434only if the decompressor ran off the end of the datastream, which would
1435indicate an erroneous datastream.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001436
1437The work buffer is defined as an array of datatype JOCTET, which is generally
1438"char" or "unsigned char". On a machine where char is not exactly 8 bits
1439wide, you must define JOCTET as a wider data type and then modify the data
1440source and destination modules to transcribe the work arrays into 8-bit units
1441on external storage.
1442
1443A data destination manager struct contains a pointer and count defining the
1444next byte to write in the work buffer and the remaining free space:
1445
1446 JOCTET * next_output_byte; /* => next byte to write in buffer */
1447 size_t free_in_buffer; /* # of byte spaces remaining in buffer */
1448
1449The library increments the pointer and decrements the count until the buffer
1450is filled. The manager's empty_output_buffer method must reset the pointer
1451and count. The manager is expected to remember the buffer's starting address
1452and total size in private fields not visible to the library.
1453
1454A data destination manager provides three methods:
1455
1456init_destination (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
1457 Initialize destination. This is called by jpeg_start_compress()
1458 before any data is actually written. It must initialize
1459 next_output_byte and free_in_buffer. free_in_buffer must be
1460 initialized to a positive value.
1461
1462empty_output_buffer (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
1463 This is called whenever the buffer has filled (free_in_buffer
1464 reaches zero). In typical applications, it should write out the
1465 *entire* buffer (use the saved start address and buffer length;
1466 ignore the current state of next_output_byte and free_in_buffer).
1467 Then reset the pointer & count to the start of the buffer, and
1468 return TRUE indicating that the buffer has been dumped.
1469 free_in_buffer must be set to a positive value when TRUE is
1470 returned. A FALSE return should only be used when I/O suspension is
1471 desired (this operating mode is discussed in the next section).
1472
1473term_destination (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
1474 Terminate destination --- called by jpeg_finish_compress() after all
1475 data has been written. In most applications, this must flush any
1476 data remaining in the buffer. Use either next_output_byte or
1477 free_in_buffer to determine how much data is in the buffer.
1478
1479term_destination() is NOT called by jpeg_abort() or jpeg_destroy(). If you
1480want the destination manager to be cleaned up during an abort, you must do it
1481yourself.
1482
1483You will also need code to create a jpeg_destination_mgr struct, fill in its
1484method pointers, and insert a pointer to the struct into the "dest" field of
1485the JPEG compression object. This can be done in-line in your setup code if
1486you like, but it's probably cleaner to provide a separate routine similar to
Guido Vollbeding989630f2010-01-10 00:00:00 +00001487the jpeg_stdio_dest() or jpeg_mem_dest() routines of the supplied destination
1488managers.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001489
1490Decompression source managers follow a parallel design, but with some
1491additional frammishes. The source manager struct contains a pointer and count
1492defining the next byte to read from the work buffer and the number of bytes
1493remaining:
1494
1495 const JOCTET * next_input_byte; /* => next byte to read from buffer */
1496 size_t bytes_in_buffer; /* # of bytes remaining in buffer */
1497
1498The library increments the pointer and decrements the count until the buffer
1499is emptied. The manager's fill_input_buffer method must reset the pointer and
1500count. In most applications, the manager must remember the buffer's starting
1501address and total size in private fields not visible to the library.
1502
1503A data source manager provides five methods:
1504
1505init_source (j_decompress_ptr cinfo)
1506 Initialize source. This is called by jpeg_read_header() before any
1507 data is actually read. Unlike init_destination(), it may leave
1508 bytes_in_buffer set to 0 (in which case a fill_input_buffer() call
1509 will occur immediately).
1510
1511fill_input_buffer (j_decompress_ptr cinfo)
1512 This is called whenever bytes_in_buffer has reached zero and more
1513 data is wanted. In typical applications, it should read fresh data
1514 into the buffer (ignoring the current state of next_input_byte and
1515 bytes_in_buffer), reset the pointer & count to the start of the
1516 buffer, and return TRUE indicating that the buffer has been reloaded.
1517 It is not necessary to fill the buffer entirely, only to obtain at
1518 least one more byte. bytes_in_buffer MUST be set to a positive value
1519 if TRUE is returned. A FALSE return should only be used when I/O
1520 suspension is desired (this mode is discussed in the next section).
1521
1522skip_input_data (j_decompress_ptr cinfo, long num_bytes)
1523 Skip num_bytes worth of data. The buffer pointer and count should
1524 be advanced over num_bytes input bytes, refilling the buffer as
1525 needed. This is used to skip over a potentially large amount of
1526 uninteresting data (such as an APPn marker). In some applications
1527 it may be possible to optimize away the reading of the skipped data,
1528 but it's not clear that being smart is worth much trouble; large
1529 skips are uncommon. bytes_in_buffer may be zero on return.
1530 A zero or negative skip count should be treated as a no-op.
1531
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001532resync_to_restart (j_decompress_ptr cinfo, int desired)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001533 This routine is called only when the decompressor has failed to find
1534 a restart (RSTn) marker where one is expected. Its mission is to
1535 find a suitable point for resuming decompression. For most
1536 applications, we recommend that you just use the default resync
1537 procedure, jpeg_resync_to_restart(). However, if you are able to back
1538 up in the input data stream, or if you have a-priori knowledge about
1539 the likely location of restart markers, you may be able to do better.
1540 Read the read_restart_marker() and jpeg_resync_to_restart() routines
1541 in jdmarker.c if you think you'd like to implement your own resync
1542 procedure.
1543
1544term_source (j_decompress_ptr cinfo)
1545 Terminate source --- called by jpeg_finish_decompress() after all
1546 data has been read. Often a no-op.
1547
1548For both fill_input_buffer() and skip_input_data(), there is no such thing
1549as an EOF return. If the end of the file has been reached, the routine has
1550a choice of exiting via ERREXIT() or inserting fake data into the buffer.
1551In most cases, generating a warning message and inserting a fake EOI marker
1552is the best course of action --- this will allow the decompressor to output
1553however much of the image is there. In pathological cases, the decompressor
1554may swallow the EOI and again demand data ... just keep feeding it fake EOIs.
1555jdatasrc.c illustrates the recommended error recovery behavior.
1556
1557term_source() is NOT called by jpeg_abort() or jpeg_destroy(). If you want
1558the source manager to be cleaned up during an abort, you must do it yourself.
1559
1560You will also need code to create a jpeg_source_mgr struct, fill in its method
1561pointers, and insert a pointer to the struct into the "src" field of the JPEG
1562decompression object. This can be done in-line in your setup code if you
1563like, but it's probably cleaner to provide a separate routine similar to the
Guido Vollbeding989630f2010-01-10 00:00:00 +00001564jpeg_stdio_src() or jpeg_mem_src() routines of the supplied source managers.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001565
Guido Vollbeding989630f2010-01-10 00:00:00 +00001566For more information, consult the memory and stdio source and destination
1567managers in jdatasrc.c and jdatadst.c.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001568
1569
1570I/O suspension
1571--------------
1572
1573Some applications need to use the JPEG library as an incremental memory-to-
1574memory filter: when the compressed data buffer is filled or emptied, they want
1575control to return to the outer loop, rather than expecting that the buffer can
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001576be emptied or reloaded within the data source/destination manager subroutine.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001577The library supports this need by providing an "I/O suspension" mode, which we
1578describe in this section.
1579
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001580The I/O suspension mode is not a panacea: nothing is guaranteed about the
1581maximum amount of time spent in any one call to the library, so it will not
1582eliminate response-time problems in single-threaded applications. If you
1583need guaranteed response time, we suggest you "bite the bullet" and implement
1584a real multi-tasking capability.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001585
1586To use I/O suspension, cooperation is needed between the calling application
1587and the data source or destination manager; you will always need a custom
1588source/destination manager. (Please read the previous section if you haven't
1589already.) The basic idea is that the empty_output_buffer() or
1590fill_input_buffer() routine is a no-op, merely returning FALSE to indicate
1591that it has done nothing. Upon seeing this, the JPEG library suspends
1592operation and returns to its caller. The surrounding application is
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001593responsible for emptying or refilling the work buffer before calling the
1594JPEG library again.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001595
1596Compression suspension:
1597
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001598For compression suspension, use an empty_output_buffer() routine that returns
1599FALSE; typically it will not do anything else. This will cause the
1600compressor to return to the caller of jpeg_write_scanlines(), with the return
1601value indicating that not all the supplied scanlines have been accepted.
1602The application must make more room in the output buffer, adjust the output
1603buffer pointer/count appropriately, and then call jpeg_write_scanlines()
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001604again, pointing to the first unconsumed scanline.
1605
1606When forced to suspend, the compressor will backtrack to a convenient stopping
1607point (usually the start of the current MCU); it will regenerate some output
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001608data when restarted. Therefore, although empty_output_buffer() is only
1609called when the buffer is filled, you should NOT write out the entire buffer
1610after a suspension. Write only the data up to the current position of
1611next_output_byte/free_in_buffer. The data beyond that point will be
1612regenerated after resumption.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001613
1614Because of the backtracking behavior, a good-size output buffer is essential
1615for efficiency; you don't want the compressor to suspend often. (In fact, an
1616overly small buffer could lead to infinite looping, if a single MCU required
1617more data than would fit in the buffer.) We recommend a buffer of at least
1618several Kbytes. You may want to insert explicit code to ensure that you don't
1619call jpeg_write_scanlines() unless there is a reasonable amount of space in
1620the output buffer; in other words, flush the buffer before trying to compress
1621more data.
1622
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001623The compressor does not allow suspension while it is trying to write JPEG
1624markers at the beginning and end of the file. This means that:
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001625 * At the beginning of a compression operation, there must be enough free
1626 space in the output buffer to hold the header markers (typically 600 or
1627 so bytes). The recommended buffer size is bigger than this anyway, so
1628 this is not a problem as long as you start with an empty buffer. However,
1629 this restriction might catch you if you insert large special markers, such
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001630 as a JFIF thumbnail image, without flushing the buffer afterwards.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001631 * When you call jpeg_finish_compress(), there must be enough space in the
1632 output buffer to emit any buffered data and the final EOI marker. In the
1633 current implementation, half a dozen bytes should suffice for this, but
1634 for safety's sake we recommend ensuring that at least 100 bytes are free
1635 before calling jpeg_finish_compress().
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001636
1637A more significant restriction is that jpeg_finish_compress() cannot suspend.
1638This means you cannot use suspension with multi-pass operating modes, namely
1639Huffman code optimization and multiple-scan output. Those modes write the
1640whole file during jpeg_finish_compress(), which will certainly result in
1641buffer overrun. (Note that this restriction applies only to compression,
1642not decompression. The decompressor supports input suspension in all of its
1643operating modes.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001644
1645Decompression suspension:
1646
1647For decompression suspension, use a fill_input_buffer() routine that simply
1648returns FALSE (except perhaps during error recovery, as discussed below).
1649This will cause the decompressor to return to its caller with an indication
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001650that suspension has occurred. This can happen at four places:
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001651 * jpeg_read_header(): will return JPEG_SUSPENDED.
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001652 * jpeg_start_decompress(): will return FALSE, rather than its usual TRUE.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001653 * jpeg_read_scanlines(): will return the number of scanlines already
1654 completed (possibly 0).
1655 * jpeg_finish_decompress(): will return FALSE, rather than its usual TRUE.
1656The surrounding application must recognize these cases, load more data into
1657the input buffer, and repeat the call. In the case of jpeg_read_scanlines(),
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001658increment the passed pointers past any scanlines successfully read.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001659
1660Just as with compression, the decompressor will typically backtrack to a
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001661convenient restart point before suspending. When fill_input_buffer() is
1662called, next_input_byte/bytes_in_buffer point to the current restart point,
1663which is where the decompressor will backtrack to if FALSE is returned.
1664The data beyond that position must NOT be discarded if you suspend; it needs
1665to be re-read upon resumption. In most implementations, you'll need to shift
1666this data down to the start of your work buffer and then load more data after
1667it. Again, this behavior means that a several-Kbyte work buffer is essential
1668for decent performance; furthermore, you should load a reasonable amount of
1669new data before resuming decompression. (If you loaded, say, only one new
1670byte each time around, you could waste a LOT of cycles.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001671
1672The skip_input_data() source manager routine requires special care in a
1673suspension scenario. This routine is NOT granted the ability to suspend the
1674decompressor; it can decrement bytes_in_buffer to zero, but no more. If the
1675requested skip distance exceeds the amount of data currently in the input
1676buffer, then skip_input_data() must set bytes_in_buffer to zero and record the
1677additional skip distance somewhere else. The decompressor will immediately
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001678call fill_input_buffer(), which should return FALSE, which will cause a
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001679suspension return. The surrounding application must then arrange to discard
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001680the recorded number of bytes before it resumes loading the input buffer.
1681(Yes, this design is rather baroque, but it avoids complexity in the far more
1682common case where a non-suspending source manager is used.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001683
1684If the input data has been exhausted, we recommend that you emit a warning
1685and insert dummy EOI markers just as a non-suspending data source manager
1686would do. This can be handled either in the surrounding application logic or
1687within fill_input_buffer(); the latter is probably more efficient. If
1688fill_input_buffer() knows that no more data is available, it can set the
1689pointer/count to point to a dummy EOI marker and then return TRUE just as
1690though it had read more data in a non-suspending situation.
1691
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00001692The decompressor does not attempt to suspend within standard JPEG markers;
1693instead it will backtrack to the start of the marker and reprocess the whole
1694marker next time. Hence the input buffer must be large enough to hold the
1695longest standard marker in the file. Standard JPEG markers should normally
1696not exceed a few hundred bytes each (DHT tables are typically the longest).
1697We recommend at least a 2K buffer for performance reasons, which is much
1698larger than any correct marker is likely to be. For robustness against
1699damaged marker length counts, you may wish to insert a test in your
1700application for the case that the input buffer is completely full and yet
1701the decoder has suspended without consuming any data --- otherwise, if this
1702situation did occur, it would lead to an endless loop. (The library can't
1703provide this test since it has no idea whether "the buffer is full", or
1704even whether there is a fixed-size input buffer.)
1705
1706The input buffer would need to be 64K to allow for arbitrary COM or APPn
1707markers, but these are handled specially: they are either saved into allocated
1708memory, or skipped over by calling skip_input_data(). In the former case,
1709suspension is handled correctly, and in the latter case, the problem of
1710buffer overrun is placed on skip_input_data's shoulders, as explained above.
1711Note that if you provide your own marker handling routine for large markers,
1712you should consider how to deal with buffer overflow.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001713
Thomas G. Lane9ba2f5e1994-12-07 00:00:00 +00001714Multiple-buffer management:
1715
1716In some applications it is desirable to store the compressed data in a linked
1717list of buffer areas, so as to avoid data copying. This can be handled by
1718having empty_output_buffer() or fill_input_buffer() set the pointer and count
1719to reference the next available buffer; FALSE is returned only if no more
1720buffers are available. Although seemingly straightforward, there is a
1721pitfall in this approach: the backtrack that occurs when FALSE is returned
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001722could back up into an earlier buffer. For example, when fill_input_buffer()
1723is called, the current pointer & count indicate the backtrack restart point.
1724Since fill_input_buffer() will set the pointer and count to refer to a new
1725buffer, the restart position must be saved somewhere else. Suppose a second
1726call to fill_input_buffer() occurs in the same library call, and no
1727additional input data is available, so fill_input_buffer must return FALSE.
1728If the JPEG library has not moved the pointer/count forward in the current
1729buffer, then *the correct restart point is the saved position in the prior
1730buffer*. Prior buffers may be discarded only after the library establishes
1731a restart point within a later buffer. Similar remarks apply for output into
1732a chain of buffers.
1733
1734The library will never attempt to backtrack over a skip_input_data() call,
1735so any skipped data can be permanently discarded. You still have to deal
1736with the case of skipping not-yet-received data, however.
1737
1738It's much simpler to use only a single buffer; when fill_input_buffer() is
1739called, move any unconsumed data (beyond the current pointer/count) down to
1740the beginning of this buffer and then load new data into the remaining buffer
1741space. This approach requires a little more data copying but is far easier
1742to get right.
1743
1744
1745Progressive JPEG support
1746------------------------
1747
1748Progressive JPEG rearranges the stored data into a series of scans of
1749increasing quality. In situations where a JPEG file is transmitted across a
1750slow communications link, a decoder can generate a low-quality image very
1751quickly from the first scan, then gradually improve the displayed quality as
1752more scans are received. The final image after all scans are complete is
1753identical to that of a regular (sequential) JPEG file of the same quality
1754setting. Progressive JPEG files are often slightly smaller than equivalent
1755sequential JPEG files, but the possibility of incremental display is the main
1756reason for using progressive JPEG.
1757
1758The IJG encoder library generates progressive JPEG files when given a
1759suitable "scan script" defining how to divide the data into scans.
1760Creation of progressive JPEG files is otherwise transparent to the encoder.
1761Progressive JPEG files can also be read transparently by the decoder library.
1762If the decoding application simply uses the library as defined above, it
1763will receive a final decoded image without any indication that the file was
1764progressive. Of course, this approach does not allow incremental display.
1765To perform incremental display, an application needs to use the decoder
1766library's "buffered-image" mode, in which it receives a decoded image
1767multiple times.
1768
1769Each displayed scan requires about as much work to decode as a full JPEG
1770image of the same size, so the decoder must be fairly fast in relation to the
1771data transmission rate in order to make incremental display useful. However,
1772it is possible to skip displaying the image and simply add the incoming bits
1773to the decoder's coefficient buffer. This is fast because only Huffman
1774decoding need be done, not IDCT, upsampling, colorspace conversion, etc.
1775The IJG decoder library allows the application to switch dynamically between
1776displaying the image and simply absorbing the incoming bits. A properly
1777coded application can automatically adapt the number of display passes to
1778suit the time available as the image is received. Also, a final
1779higher-quality display cycle can be performed from the buffered data after
1780the end of the file is reached.
1781
1782Progressive compression:
1783
1784To create a progressive JPEG file (or a multiple-scan sequential JPEG file),
1785set the scan_info cinfo field to point to an array of scan descriptors, and
1786perform compression as usual. Instead of constructing your own scan list,
1787you can call the jpeg_simple_progression() helper routine to create a
1788recommended progression sequence; this method should be used by all
1789applications that don't want to get involved in the nitty-gritty of
1790progressive scan sequence design. (If you want to provide user control of
1791scan sequences, you may wish to borrow the scan script reading code found
1792in rdswitch.c, so that you can read scan script files just like cjpeg's.)
1793When scan_info is not NULL, the compression library will store DCT'd data
1794into a buffer array as jpeg_write_scanlines() is called, and will emit all
1795the requested scans during jpeg_finish_compress(). This implies that
1796multiple-scan output cannot be created with a suspending data destination
1797manager, since jpeg_finish_compress() does not support suspension. We
1798should also note that the compressor currently forces Huffman optimization
1799mode when creating a progressive JPEG file, because the default Huffman
1800tables are unsuitable for progressive files.
1801
1802Progressive decompression:
1803
1804When buffered-image mode is not used, the decoder library will read all of
1805a multi-scan file during jpeg_start_decompress(), so that it can provide a
1806final decoded image. (Here "multi-scan" means either progressive or
1807multi-scan sequential.) This makes multi-scan files transparent to the
1808decoding application. However, existing applications that used suspending
1809input with version 5 of the IJG library will need to be modified to check
1810for a suspension return from jpeg_start_decompress().
1811
1812To perform incremental display, an application must use the library's
1813buffered-image mode. This is described in the next section.
1814
1815
1816Buffered-image mode
1817-------------------
1818
1819In buffered-image mode, the library stores the partially decoded image in a
1820coefficient buffer, from which it can be read out as many times as desired.
1821This mode is typically used for incremental display of progressive JPEG files,
1822but it can be used with any JPEG file. Each scan of a progressive JPEG file
1823adds more data (more detail) to the buffered image. The application can
1824display in lockstep with the source file (one display pass per input scan),
1825or it can allow input processing to outrun display processing. By making
1826input and display processing run independently, it is possible for the
1827application to adapt progressive display to a wide range of data transmission
1828rates.
1829
1830The basic control flow for buffered-image decoding is
1831
1832 jpeg_create_decompress()
1833 set data source
1834 jpeg_read_header()
1835 set overall decompression parameters
1836 cinfo.buffered_image = TRUE; /* select buffered-image mode */
1837 jpeg_start_decompress()
1838 for (each output pass) {
1839 adjust output decompression parameters if required
1840 jpeg_start_output() /* start a new output pass */
1841 for (all scanlines in image) {
1842 jpeg_read_scanlines()
1843 display scanlines
1844 }
1845 jpeg_finish_output() /* terminate output pass */
1846 }
1847 jpeg_finish_decompress()
1848 jpeg_destroy_decompress()
1849
1850This differs from ordinary unbuffered decoding in that there is an additional
1851level of looping. The application can choose how many output passes to make
1852and how to display each pass.
1853
1854The simplest approach to displaying progressive images is to do one display
1855pass for each scan appearing in the input file. In this case the outer loop
1856condition is typically
1857 while (! jpeg_input_complete(&cinfo))
1858and the start-output call should read
1859 jpeg_start_output(&cinfo, cinfo.input_scan_number);
1860The second parameter to jpeg_start_output() indicates which scan of the input
1861file is to be displayed; the scans are numbered starting at 1 for this
1862purpose. (You can use a loop counter starting at 1 if you like, but using
1863the library's input scan counter is easier.) The library automatically reads
1864data as necessary to complete each requested scan, and jpeg_finish_output()
1865advances to the next scan or end-of-image marker (hence input_scan_number
1866will be incremented by the time control arrives back at jpeg_start_output()).
1867With this technique, data is read from the input file only as needed, and
1868input and output processing run in lockstep.
1869
1870After reading the final scan and reaching the end of the input file, the
1871buffered image remains available; it can be read additional times by
1872repeating the jpeg_start_output()/jpeg_read_scanlines()/jpeg_finish_output()
1873sequence. For example, a useful technique is to use fast one-pass color
1874quantization for display passes made while the image is arriving, followed by
1875a final display pass using two-pass quantization for highest quality. This
1876is done by changing the library parameters before the final output pass.
1877Changing parameters between passes is discussed in detail below.
1878
1879In general the last scan of a progressive file cannot be recognized as such
1880until after it is read, so a post-input display pass is the best approach if
1881you want special processing in the final pass.
1882
1883When done with the image, be sure to call jpeg_finish_decompress() to release
1884the buffered image (or just use jpeg_destroy_decompress()).
1885
1886If input data arrives faster than it can be displayed, the application can
1887cause the library to decode input data in advance of what's needed to produce
1888output. This is done by calling the routine jpeg_consume_input().
1889The return value is one of the following:
1890 JPEG_REACHED_SOS: reached an SOS marker (the start of a new scan)
1891 JPEG_REACHED_EOI: reached the EOI marker (end of image)
1892 JPEG_ROW_COMPLETED: completed reading one MCU row of compressed data
1893 JPEG_SCAN_COMPLETED: completed reading last MCU row of current scan
1894 JPEG_SUSPENDED: suspended before completing any of the above
1895(JPEG_SUSPENDED can occur only if a suspending data source is used.) This
1896routine can be called at any time after initializing the JPEG object. It
1897reads some additional data and returns when one of the indicated significant
1898events occurs. (If called after the EOI marker is reached, it will
1899immediately return JPEG_REACHED_EOI without attempting to read more data.)
1900
1901The library's output processing will automatically call jpeg_consume_input()
1902whenever the output processing overtakes the input; thus, simple lockstep
1903display requires no direct calls to jpeg_consume_input(). But by adding
1904calls to jpeg_consume_input(), you can absorb data in advance of what is
1905being displayed. This has two benefits:
1906 * You can limit buildup of unprocessed data in your input buffer.
1907 * You can eliminate extra display passes by paying attention to the
1908 state of the library's input processing.
1909
1910The first of these benefits only requires interspersing calls to
1911jpeg_consume_input() with your display operations and any other processing
1912you may be doing. To avoid wasting cycles due to backtracking, it's best to
1913call jpeg_consume_input() only after a hundred or so new bytes have arrived.
1914This is discussed further under "I/O suspension", above. (Note: the JPEG
1915library currently is not thread-safe. You must not call jpeg_consume_input()
1916from one thread of control if a different library routine is working on the
1917same JPEG object in another thread.)
1918
1919When input arrives fast enough that more than one new scan is available
1920before you start a new output pass, you may as well skip the output pass
1921corresponding to the completed scan. This occurs for free if you pass
1922cinfo.input_scan_number as the target scan number to jpeg_start_output().
1923The input_scan_number field is simply the index of the scan currently being
1924consumed by the input processor. You can ensure that this is up-to-date by
1925emptying the input buffer just before calling jpeg_start_output(): call
1926jpeg_consume_input() repeatedly until it returns JPEG_SUSPENDED or
1927JPEG_REACHED_EOI.
1928
1929The target scan number passed to jpeg_start_output() is saved in the
1930cinfo.output_scan_number field. The library's output processing calls
1931jpeg_consume_input() whenever the current input scan number and row within
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +00001932that scan is less than or equal to the current output scan number and row.
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001933Thus, input processing can "get ahead" of the output processing but is not
1934allowed to "fall behind". You can achieve several different effects by
1935manipulating this interlock rule. For example, if you pass a target scan
1936number greater than the current input scan number, the output processor will
1937wait until that scan starts to arrive before producing any output. (To avoid
1938an infinite loop, the target scan number is automatically reset to the last
1939scan number when the end of image is reached. Thus, if you specify a large
1940target scan number, the library will just absorb the entire input file and
1941then perform an output pass. This is effectively the same as what
1942jpeg_start_decompress() does when you don't select buffered-image mode.)
1943When you pass a target scan number equal to the current input scan number,
1944the image is displayed no faster than the current input scan arrives. The
1945final possibility is to pass a target scan number less than the current input
1946scan number; this disables the input/output interlock and causes the output
1947processor to simply display whatever it finds in the image buffer, without
1948waiting for input. (However, the library will not accept a target scan
1949number less than one, so you can't avoid waiting for the first scan.)
1950
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +00001951When data is arriving faster than the output display processing can advance
1952through the image, jpeg_consume_input() will store data into the buffered
1953image beyond the point at which the output processing is reading data out
1954again. If the input arrives fast enough, it may "wrap around" the buffer to
1955the point where the input is more than one whole scan ahead of the output.
1956If the output processing simply proceeds through its display pass without
1957paying attention to the input, the effect seen on-screen is that the lower
1958part of the image is one or more scans better in quality than the upper part.
1959Then, when the next output scan is started, you have a choice of what target
1960scan number to use. The recommended choice is to use the current input scan
1961number at that time, which implies that you've skipped the output scans
1962corresponding to the input scans that were completed while you processed the
1963previous output scan. In this way, the decoder automatically adapts its
1964speed to the arriving data, by skipping output scans as necessary to keep up
1965with the arriving data.
1966
1967When using this strategy, you'll want to be sure that you perform a final
1968output pass after receiving all the data; otherwise your last display may not
1969be full quality across the whole screen. So the right outer loop logic is
1970something like this:
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001971 do {
1972 absorb any waiting input by calling jpeg_consume_input()
1973 final_pass = jpeg_input_complete(&cinfo);
1974 adjust output decompression parameters if required
1975 jpeg_start_output(&cinfo, cinfo.input_scan_number);
1976 ...
1977 jpeg_finish_output()
1978 } while (! final_pass);
1979rather than quitting as soon as jpeg_input_complete() returns TRUE. This
1980arrangement makes it simple to use higher-quality decoding parameters
1981for the final pass. But if you don't want to use special parameters for
1982the final pass, the right loop logic is like this:
1983 for (;;) {
1984 absorb any waiting input by calling jpeg_consume_input()
1985 jpeg_start_output(&cinfo, cinfo.input_scan_number);
1986 ...
1987 jpeg_finish_output()
1988 if (jpeg_input_complete(&cinfo) &&
1989 cinfo.input_scan_number == cinfo.output_scan_number)
1990 break;
1991 }
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +00001992In this case you don't need to know in advance whether an output pass is to
1993be the last one, so it's not necessary to have reached EOF before starting
1994the final output pass; rather, what you want to test is whether the output
1995pass was performed in sync with the final input scan. This form of the loop
1996will avoid an extra output pass whenever the decoder is able (or nearly able)
1997to keep up with the incoming data.
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001998
1999When the data transmission speed is high, you might begin a display pass,
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +00002000then find that much or all of the file has arrived before you can complete
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002001the pass. (You can detect this by noting the JPEG_REACHED_EOI return code
2002from jpeg_consume_input(), or equivalently by testing jpeg_input_complete().)
2003In this situation you may wish to abort the current display pass and start a
2004new one using the newly arrived information. To do so, just call
2005jpeg_finish_output() and then start a new pass with jpeg_start_output().
2006
2007A variant strategy is to abort and restart display if more than one complete
2008scan arrives during an output pass; this can be detected by noting
2009JPEG_REACHED_SOS returns and/or examining cinfo.input_scan_number. This
2010idea should be employed with caution, however, since the display process
2011might never get to the bottom of the image before being aborted, resulting
2012in the lower part of the screen being several passes worse than the upper.
2013In most cases it's probably best to abort an output pass only if the whole
2014file has arrived and you want to begin the final output pass immediately.
2015
2016When receiving data across a communication link, we recommend always using
2017the current input scan number for the output target scan number; if a
2018higher-quality final pass is to be done, it should be started (aborting any
2019incomplete output pass) as soon as the end of file is received. However,
2020many other strategies are possible. For example, the application can examine
2021the parameters of the current input scan and decide whether to display it or
2022not. If the scan contains only chroma data, one might choose not to use it
2023as the target scan, expecting that the scan will be small and will arrive
2024quickly. To skip to the next scan, call jpeg_consume_input() until it
2025returns JPEG_REACHED_SOS or JPEG_REACHED_EOI. Or just use the next higher
2026number as the target scan for jpeg_start_output(); but that method doesn't
2027let you inspect the next scan's parameters before deciding to display it.
2028
2029
2030In buffered-image mode, jpeg_start_decompress() never performs input and
2031thus never suspends. An application that uses input suspension with
2032buffered-image mode must be prepared for suspension returns from these
2033routines:
2034* jpeg_start_output() performs input only if you request 2-pass quantization
2035 and the target scan isn't fully read yet. (This is discussed below.)
2036* jpeg_read_scanlines(), as always, returns the number of scanlines that it
2037 was able to produce before suspending.
2038* jpeg_finish_output() will read any markers following the target scan,
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +00002039 up to the end of the file or the SOS marker that begins another scan.
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002040 (But it reads no input if jpeg_consume_input() has already reached the
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +00002041 end of the file or a SOS marker beyond the target output scan.)
2042* jpeg_finish_decompress() will read until the end of file, and thus can
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002043 suspend if the end hasn't already been reached (as can be tested by
2044 calling jpeg_input_complete()).
2045jpeg_start_output(), jpeg_finish_output(), and jpeg_finish_decompress()
2046all return TRUE if they completed their tasks, FALSE if they had to suspend.
2047In the event of a FALSE return, the application must load more input data
2048and repeat the call. Applications that use non-suspending data sources need
2049not check the return values of these three routines.
2050
2051
2052It is possible to change decoding parameters between output passes in the
2053buffered-image mode. The decoder library currently supports only very
2054limited changes of parameters. ONLY THE FOLLOWING parameter changes are
2055allowed after jpeg_start_decompress() is called:
2056* dct_method can be changed before each call to jpeg_start_output().
2057 For example, one could use a fast DCT method for early scans, changing
2058 to a higher quality method for the final scan.
2059* dither_mode can be changed before each call to jpeg_start_output();
2060 of course this has no impact if not using color quantization. Typically
2061 one would use ordered dither for initial passes, then switch to
2062 Floyd-Steinberg dither for the final pass. Caution: changing dither mode
2063 can cause more memory to be allocated by the library. Although the amount
2064 of memory involved is not large (a scanline or so), it may cause the
2065 initial max_memory_to_use specification to be exceeded, which in the worst
2066 case would result in an out-of-memory failure.
2067* do_block_smoothing can be changed before each call to jpeg_start_output().
2068 This setting is relevant only when decoding a progressive JPEG image.
2069 During the first DC-only scan, block smoothing provides a very "fuzzy" look
2070 instead of the very "blocky" look seen without it; which is better seems a
2071 matter of personal taste. But block smoothing is nearly always a win
2072 during later stages, especially when decoding a successive-approximation
2073 image: smoothing helps to hide the slight blockiness that otherwise shows
2074 up on smooth gradients until the lowest coefficient bits are sent.
2075* Color quantization mode can be changed under the rules described below.
2076 You *cannot* change between full-color and quantized output (because that
2077 would alter the required I/O buffer sizes), but you can change which
2078 quantization method is used.
2079
2080When generating color-quantized output, changing quantization method is a
2081very useful way of switching between high-speed and high-quality display.
2082The library allows you to change among its three quantization methods:
20831. Single-pass quantization to a fixed color cube.
2084 Selected by cinfo.two_pass_quantize = FALSE and cinfo.colormap = NULL.
20852. Single-pass quantization to an application-supplied colormap.
2086 Selected by setting cinfo.colormap to point to the colormap (the value of
2087 two_pass_quantize is ignored); also set cinfo.actual_number_of_colors.
20883. Two-pass quantization to a colormap chosen specifically for the image.
2089 Selected by cinfo.two_pass_quantize = TRUE and cinfo.colormap = NULL.
2090 (This is the default setting selected by jpeg_read_header, but it is
2091 probably NOT what you want for the first pass of progressive display!)
2092These methods offer successively better quality and lesser speed. However,
2093only the first method is available for quantizing in non-RGB color spaces.
2094
2095IMPORTANT: because the different quantizer methods have very different
2096working-storage requirements, the library requires you to indicate which
2097one(s) you intend to use before you call jpeg_start_decompress(). (If we did
2098not require this, the max_memory_to_use setting would be a complete fiction.)
2099You do this by setting one or more of these three cinfo fields to TRUE:
2100 enable_1pass_quant Fixed color cube colormap
2101 enable_external_quant Externally-supplied colormap
2102 enable_2pass_quant Two-pass custom colormap
2103All three are initialized FALSE by jpeg_read_header(). But
2104jpeg_start_decompress() automatically sets TRUE the one selected by the
2105current two_pass_quantize and colormap settings, so you only need to set the
2106enable flags for any other quantization methods you plan to change to later.
2107
2108After setting the enable flags correctly at jpeg_start_decompress() time, you
2109can change to any enabled quantization method by setting two_pass_quantize
2110and colormap properly just before calling jpeg_start_output(). The following
2111special rules apply:
21121. You must explicitly set cinfo.colormap to NULL when switching to 1-pass
2113 or 2-pass mode from a different mode, or when you want the 2-pass
2114 quantizer to be re-run to generate a new colormap.
21152. To switch to an external colormap, or to change to a different external
2116 colormap than was used on the prior pass, you must call
2117 jpeg_new_colormap() after setting cinfo.colormap.
2118NOTE: if you want to use the same colormap as was used in the prior pass,
2119you should not do either of these things. This will save some nontrivial
2120switchover costs.
2121(These requirements exist because cinfo.colormap will always be non-NULL
2122after completing a prior output pass, since both the 1-pass and 2-pass
2123quantizers set it to point to their output colormaps. Thus you have to
2124do one of these two things to notify the library that something has changed.
2125Yup, it's a bit klugy, but it's necessary to do it this way for backwards
2126compatibility.)
2127
2128Note that in buffered-image mode, the library generates any requested colormap
2129during jpeg_start_output(), not during jpeg_start_decompress().
2130
2131When using two-pass quantization, jpeg_start_output() makes a pass over the
2132buffered image to determine the optimum color map; it therefore may take a
2133significant amount of time, whereas ordinarily it does little work. The
2134progress monitor hook is called during this pass, if defined. It is also
2135important to realize that if the specified target scan number is greater than
2136or equal to the current input scan number, jpeg_start_output() will attempt
2137to consume input as it makes this pass. If you use a suspending data source,
2138you need to check for a FALSE return from jpeg_start_output() under these
2139conditions. The combination of 2-pass quantization and a not-yet-fully-read
2140target scan is the only case in which jpeg_start_output() will consume input.
2141
2142
2143Application authors who support buffered-image mode may be tempted to use it
2144for all JPEG images, even single-scan ones. This will work, but it is
2145inefficient: there is no need to create an image-sized coefficient buffer for
2146single-scan images. Requesting buffered-image mode for such an image wastes
2147memory. Worse, it can cost time on large images, since the buffered data has
2148to be swapped out or written to a temporary file. If you are concerned about
2149maximum performance on baseline JPEG files, you should use buffered-image
2150mode only when the incoming file actually has multiple scans. This can be
2151tested by calling jpeg_has_multiple_scans(), which will return a correct
2152result at any time after jpeg_read_header() completes.
2153
2154It is also worth noting that when you use jpeg_consume_input() to let input
2155processing get ahead of output processing, the resulting pattern of access to
2156the coefficient buffer is quite nonsequential. It's best to use the memory
2157manager jmemnobs.c if you can (ie, if you have enough real or virtual main
2158memory). If not, at least make sure that max_memory_to_use is set as high as
2159possible. If the JPEG memory manager has to use a temporary file, you will
2160probably see a lot of disk traffic and poor performance. (This could be
2161improved with additional work on the memory manager, but we haven't gotten
2162around to it yet.)
2163
2164In some applications it may be convenient to use jpeg_consume_input() for all
2165input processing, including reading the initial markers; that is, you may
2166wish to call jpeg_consume_input() instead of jpeg_read_header() during
2167startup. This works, but note that you must check for JPEG_REACHED_SOS and
2168JPEG_REACHED_EOI return codes as the equivalent of jpeg_read_header's codes.
2169Once the first SOS marker has been reached, you must call
2170jpeg_start_decompress() before jpeg_consume_input() will consume more input;
2171it'll just keep returning JPEG_REACHED_SOS until you do. If you read a
2172tables-only file this way, jpeg_consume_input() will return JPEG_REACHED_EOI
2173without ever returning JPEG_REACHED_SOS; be sure to check for this case.
2174If this happens, the decompressor will not read any more input until you call
2175jpeg_abort() to reset it. It is OK to call jpeg_consume_input() even when not
2176using buffered-image mode, but in that case it's basically a no-op after the
2177initial markers have been read: it will just return JPEG_SUSPENDED.
Thomas G. Lane9ba2f5e1994-12-07 00:00:00 +00002178
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002179
2180Abbreviated datastreams and multiple images
2181-------------------------------------------
2182
2183A JPEG compression or decompression object can be reused to process multiple
2184images. This saves a small amount of time per image by eliminating the
2185"create" and "destroy" operations, but that isn't the real purpose of the
2186feature. Rather, reuse of an object provides support for abbreviated JPEG
2187datastreams. Object reuse can also simplify processing a series of images in
2188a single input or output file. This section explains these features.
2189
2190A JPEG file normally contains several hundred bytes worth of quantization
2191and Huffman tables. In a situation where many images will be stored or
2192transmitted with identical tables, this may represent an annoying overhead.
2193The JPEG standard therefore permits tables to be omitted. The standard
2194defines three classes of JPEG datastreams:
2195 * "Interchange" datastreams contain an image and all tables needed to decode
2196 the image. These are the usual kind of JPEG file.
2197 * "Abbreviated image" datastreams contain an image, but are missing some or
2198 all of the tables needed to decode that image.
2199 * "Abbreviated table specification" (henceforth "tables-only") datastreams
2200 contain only table specifications.
2201To decode an abbreviated image, it is necessary to load the missing table(s)
2202into the decoder beforehand. This can be accomplished by reading a separate
2203tables-only file. A variant scheme uses a series of images in which the first
2204image is an interchange (complete) datastream, while subsequent ones are
2205abbreviated and rely on the tables loaded by the first image. It is assumed
2206that once the decoder has read a table, it will remember that table until a
2207new definition for the same table number is encountered.
2208
2209It is the application designer's responsibility to figure out how to associate
2210the correct tables with an abbreviated image. While abbreviated datastreams
2211can be useful in a closed environment, their use is strongly discouraged in
2212any situation where data exchange with other applications might be needed.
2213Caveat designer.
2214
2215The JPEG library provides support for reading and writing any combination of
2216tables-only datastreams and abbreviated images. In both compression and
2217decompression objects, a quantization or Huffman table will be retained for
2218the lifetime of the object, unless it is overwritten by a new table definition.
2219
2220
2221To create abbreviated image datastreams, it is only necessary to tell the
2222compressor not to emit some or all of the tables it is using. Each
2223quantization and Huffman table struct contains a boolean field "sent_table",
2224which normally is initialized to FALSE. For each table used by the image, the
2225header-writing process emits the table and sets sent_table = TRUE unless it is
2226already TRUE. (In normal usage, this prevents outputting the same table
2227definition multiple times, as would otherwise occur because the chroma
2228components typically share tables.) Thus, setting this field to TRUE before
2229calling jpeg_start_compress() will prevent the table from being written at
2230all.
2231
2232If you want to create a "pure" abbreviated image file containing no tables,
2233just call "jpeg_suppress_tables(&cinfo, TRUE)" after constructing all the
2234tables. If you want to emit some but not all tables, you'll need to set the
2235individual sent_table fields directly.
2236
2237To create an abbreviated image, you must also call jpeg_start_compress()
2238with a second parameter of FALSE, not TRUE. Otherwise jpeg_start_compress()
2239will force all the sent_table fields to FALSE. (This is a safety feature to
2240prevent abbreviated images from being created accidentally.)
2241
2242To create a tables-only file, perform the same parameter setup that you
2243normally would, but instead of calling jpeg_start_compress() and so on, call
2244jpeg_write_tables(&cinfo). This will write an abbreviated datastream
2245containing only SOI, DQT and/or DHT markers, and EOI. All the quantization
2246and Huffman tables that are currently defined in the compression object will
2247be emitted unless their sent_tables flag is already TRUE, and then all the
2248sent_tables flags will be set TRUE.
2249
2250A sure-fire way to create matching tables-only and abbreviated image files
2251is to proceed as follows:
2252
2253 create JPEG compression object
2254 set JPEG parameters
2255 set destination to tables-only file
2256 jpeg_write_tables(&cinfo);
2257 set destination to image file
2258 jpeg_start_compress(&cinfo, FALSE);
2259 write data...
2260 jpeg_finish_compress(&cinfo);
2261
2262Since the JPEG parameters are not altered between writing the table file and
2263the abbreviated image file, the same tables are sure to be used. Of course,
2264you can repeat the jpeg_start_compress() ... jpeg_finish_compress() sequence
2265many times to produce many abbreviated image files matching the table file.
2266
2267You cannot suppress output of the computed Huffman tables when Huffman
2268optimization is selected. (If you could, there'd be no way to decode the
2269image...) Generally, you don't want to set optimize_coding = TRUE when
2270you are trying to produce abbreviated files.
2271
2272In some cases you might want to compress an image using tables which are
2273not stored in the application, but are defined in an interchange or
2274tables-only file readable by the application. This can be done by setting up
2275a JPEG decompression object to read the specification file, then copying the
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +00002276tables into your compression object. See jpeg_copy_critical_parameters()
2277for an example of copying quantization tables.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002278
2279
2280To read abbreviated image files, you simply need to load the proper tables
2281into the decompression object before trying to read the abbreviated image.
2282If the proper tables are stored in the application program, you can just
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002283allocate the table structs and fill in their contents directly. For example,
2284to load a fixed quantization table into table slot "n":
2285
2286 if (cinfo.quant_tbl_ptrs[n] == NULL)
2287 cinfo.quant_tbl_ptrs[n] = jpeg_alloc_quant_table((j_common_ptr) &cinfo);
2288 quant_ptr = cinfo.quant_tbl_ptrs[n]; /* quant_ptr is JQUANT_TBL* */
2289 for (i = 0; i < 64; i++) {
2290 /* Qtable[] is desired quantization table, in natural array order */
2291 quant_ptr->quantval[i] = Qtable[i];
2292 }
2293
2294Code to load a fixed Huffman table is typically (for AC table "n"):
2295
2296 if (cinfo.ac_huff_tbl_ptrs[n] == NULL)
2297 cinfo.ac_huff_tbl_ptrs[n] = jpeg_alloc_huff_table((j_common_ptr) &cinfo);
2298 huff_ptr = cinfo.ac_huff_tbl_ptrs[n]; /* huff_ptr is JHUFF_TBL* */
2299 for (i = 1; i <= 16; i++) {
2300 /* counts[i] is number of Huffman codes of length i bits, i=1..16 */
2301 huff_ptr->bits[i] = counts[i];
2302 }
2303 for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
2304 /* symbols[] is the list of Huffman symbols, in code-length order */
2305 huff_ptr->huffval[i] = symbols[i];
2306 }
2307
2308(Note that trying to set cinfo.quant_tbl_ptrs[n] to point directly at a
2309constant JQUANT_TBL object is not safe. If the incoming file happened to
2310contain a quantization table definition, your master table would get
2311overwritten! Instead allocate a working table copy and copy the master table
2312into it, as illustrated above. Ditto for Huffman tables, of course.)
2313
2314You might want to read the tables from a tables-only file, rather than
2315hard-wiring them into your application. The jpeg_read_header() call is
2316sufficient to read a tables-only file. You must pass a second parameter of
2317FALSE to indicate that you do not require an image to be present. Thus, the
2318typical scenario is
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002319
2320 create JPEG decompression object
2321 set source to tables-only file
2322 jpeg_read_header(&cinfo, FALSE);
2323 set source to abbreviated image file
2324 jpeg_read_header(&cinfo, TRUE);
2325 set decompression parameters
2326 jpeg_start_decompress(&cinfo);
2327 read data...
2328 jpeg_finish_decompress(&cinfo);
2329
2330In some cases, you may want to read a file without knowing whether it contains
2331an image or just tables. In that case, pass FALSE and check the return value
2332from jpeg_read_header(): it will be JPEG_HEADER_OK if an image was found,
2333JPEG_HEADER_TABLES_ONLY if only tables were found. (A third return value,
2334JPEG_SUSPENDED, is possible when using a suspending data source manager.)
2335Note that jpeg_read_header() will not complain if you read an abbreviated
2336image for which you haven't loaded the missing tables; the missing-table check
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002337occurs later, in jpeg_start_decompress().
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002338
2339
2340It is possible to read a series of images from a single source file by
2341repeating the jpeg_read_header() ... jpeg_finish_decompress() sequence,
2342without releasing/recreating the JPEG object or the data source module.
2343(If you did reinitialize, any partial bufferload left in the data source
2344buffer at the end of one image would be discarded, causing you to lose the
2345start of the next image.) When you use this method, stored tables are
2346automatically carried forward, so some of the images can be abbreviated images
2347that depend on tables from earlier images.
2348
2349If you intend to write a series of images into a single destination file,
2350you might want to make a specialized data destination module that doesn't
2351flush the output buffer at term_destination() time. This would speed things
2352up by some trifling amount. Of course, you'd need to remember to flush the
2353buffer after the last image. You can make the later images be abbreviated
2354ones by passing FALSE to jpeg_start_compress().
2355
2356
2357Special markers
2358---------------
2359
2360Some applications may need to insert or extract special data in the JPEG
2361datastream. The JPEG standard provides marker types "COM" (comment) and
2362"APP0" through "APP15" (application) to hold application-specific data.
2363Unfortunately, the use of these markers is not specified by the standard.
2364COM markers are fairly widely used to hold user-supplied text. The JFIF file
2365format spec uses APP0 markers with specified initial strings to hold certain
2366data. Adobe applications use APP14 markers beginning with the string "Adobe"
2367for miscellaneous data. Other APPn markers are rarely seen, but might
2368contain almost anything.
2369
2370If you wish to store user-supplied text, we recommend you use COM markers
2371and place readable 7-bit ASCII text in them. Newline conventions are not
2372standardized --- expect to find LF (Unix style), CR/LF (DOS style), or CR
2373(Mac style). A robust COM reader should be able to cope with random binary
2374garbage, including nulls, since some applications generate COM markers
2375containing non-ASCII junk. (But yours should not be one of them.)
2376
2377For program-supplied data, use an APPn marker, and be sure to begin it with an
2378identifying string so that you can tell whether the marker is actually yours.
2379It's probably best to avoid using APP0 or APP14 for any private markers.
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002380(NOTE: the upcoming SPIFF standard will use APP8 markers; we recommend you
2381not use APP8 markers for any private purposes, either.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002382
2383Keep in mind that at most 65533 bytes can be put into one marker, but you
2384can have as many markers as you like.
2385
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002386By default, the IJG compression library will write a JFIF APP0 marker if the
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002387selected JPEG colorspace is grayscale or YCbCr, or an Adobe APP14 marker if
2388the selected colorspace is RGB, CMYK, or YCCK. You can disable this, but
2389we don't recommend it. The decompression library will recognize JFIF and
2390Adobe markers and will set the JPEG colorspace properly when one is found.
2391
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002392
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002393You can write special markers immediately following the datastream header by
2394calling jpeg_write_marker() after jpeg_start_compress() and before the first
2395call to jpeg_write_scanlines(). When you do this, the markers appear after
2396the SOI and the JFIF APP0 and Adobe APP14 markers (if written), but before
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002397all else. Specify the marker type parameter as "JPEG_COM" for COM or
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002398"JPEG_APP0 + n" for APPn. (Actually, jpeg_write_marker will let you write
2399any marker type, but we don't recommend writing any other kinds of marker.)
2400For example, to write a user comment string pointed to by comment_text:
2401 jpeg_write_marker(cinfo, JPEG_COM, comment_text, strlen(comment_text));
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002402
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002403If it's not convenient to store all the marker data in memory at once,
2404you can instead call jpeg_write_m_header() followed by multiple calls to
2405jpeg_write_m_byte(). If you do it this way, it's your responsibility to
2406call jpeg_write_m_byte() exactly the number of times given in the length
2407parameter to jpeg_write_m_header(). (This method lets you empty the
2408output buffer partway through a marker, which might be important when
2409using a suspending data destination module. In any case, if you are using
2410a suspending destination, you should flush its buffer after inserting
2411any special markers. See "I/O suspension".)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002412
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002413Or, if you prefer to synthesize the marker byte sequence yourself,
2414you can just cram it straight into the data destination module.
2415
2416If you are writing JFIF 1.02 extension markers (thumbnail images), don't
2417forget to set cinfo.JFIF_minor_version = 2 so that the encoder will write the
2418correct JFIF version number in the JFIF header marker. The library's default
2419is to write version 1.01, but that's wrong if you insert any 1.02 extension
2420markers. (We could probably get away with just defaulting to 1.02, but there
2421used to be broken decoders that would complain about unknown minor version
2422numbers. To reduce compatibility risks it's safest not to write 1.02 unless
2423you are actually using 1.02 extensions.)
2424
2425
2426When reading, two methods of handling special markers are available:
24271. You can ask the library to save the contents of COM and/or APPn markers
2428into memory, and then examine them at your leisure afterwards.
24292. You can supply your own routine to process COM and/or APPn markers
2430on-the-fly as they are read.
2431The first method is simpler to use, especially if you are using a suspending
2432data source; writing a marker processor that copes with input suspension is
2433not easy (consider what happens if the marker is longer than your available
2434input buffer). However, the second method conserves memory since the marker
2435data need not be kept around after it's been processed.
2436
2437For either method, you'd normally set up marker handling after creating a
2438decompression object and before calling jpeg_read_header(), because the
2439markers of interest will typically be near the head of the file and so will
2440be scanned by jpeg_read_header. Once you've established a marker handling
2441method, it will be used for the life of that decompression object
2442(potentially many datastreams), unless you change it. Marker handling is
2443determined separately for COM markers and for each APPn marker code.
2444
2445
2446To save the contents of special markers in memory, call
2447 jpeg_save_markers(cinfo, marker_code, length_limit)
2448where marker_code is the marker type to save, JPEG_COM or JPEG_APP0+n.
2449(To arrange to save all the special marker types, you need to call this
2450routine 17 times, for COM and APP0-APP15.) If the incoming marker is longer
2451than length_limit data bytes, only length_limit bytes will be saved; this
2452parameter allows you to avoid chewing up memory when you only need to see the
2453first few bytes of a potentially large marker. If you want to save all the
2454data, set length_limit to 0xFFFF; that is enough since marker lengths are only
245516 bits. As a special case, setting length_limit to 0 prevents that marker
2456type from being saved at all. (That is the default behavior, in fact.)
2457
2458After jpeg_read_header() completes, you can examine the special markers by
2459following the cinfo->marker_list pointer chain. All the special markers in
2460the file appear in this list, in order of their occurrence in the file (but
2461omitting any markers of types you didn't ask for). Both the original data
2462length and the saved data length are recorded for each list entry; the latter
2463will not exceed length_limit for the particular marker type. Note that these
2464lengths exclude the marker length word, whereas the stored representation
2465within the JPEG file includes it. (Hence the maximum data length is really
2466only 65533.)
2467
2468It is possible that additional special markers appear in the file beyond the
2469SOS marker at which jpeg_read_header stops; if so, the marker list will be
2470extended during reading of the rest of the file. This is not expected to be
2471common, however. If you are short on memory you may want to reset the length
2472limit to zero for all marker types after finishing jpeg_read_header, to
2473ensure that the max_memory_to_use setting cannot be exceeded due to addition
2474of later markers.
2475
2476The marker list remains stored until you call jpeg_finish_decompress or
2477jpeg_abort, at which point the memory is freed and the list is set to empty.
2478(jpeg_destroy also releases the storage, of course.)
2479
2480Note that the library is internally interested in APP0 and APP14 markers;
2481if you try to set a small nonzero length limit on these types, the library
2482will silently force the length up to the minimum it wants. (But you can set
2483a zero length limit to prevent them from being saved at all.) Also, in a
248416-bit environment, the maximum length limit may be constrained to less than
248565533 by malloc() limitations. It is therefore best not to assume that the
2486effective length limit is exactly what you set it to be.
2487
2488
2489If you want to supply your own marker-reading routine, you do it by calling
2490jpeg_set_marker_processor(). A marker processor routine must have the
2491signature
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002492 boolean jpeg_marker_parser_method (j_decompress_ptr cinfo)
2493Although the marker code is not explicitly passed, the routine can find it
2494in cinfo->unread_marker. At the time of call, the marker proper has been
2495read from the data source module. The processor routine is responsible for
2496reading the marker length word and the remaining parameter bytes, if any.
2497Return TRUE to indicate success. (FALSE should be returned only if you are
2498using a suspending data source and it tells you to suspend. See the standard
2499marker processors in jdmarker.c for appropriate coding methods if you need to
2500use a suspending data source.)
2501
2502If you override the default APP0 or APP14 processors, it is up to you to
2503recognize JFIF and Adobe markers if you want colorspace recognition to occur
2504properly. We recommend copying and extending the default processors if you
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002505want to do that. (A better idea is to save these marker types for later
2506examination by calling jpeg_save_markers(); that method doesn't interfere
2507with the library's own processing of these markers.)
2508
2509jpeg_set_marker_processor() and jpeg_save_markers() are mutually exclusive
2510--- if you call one it overrides any previous call to the other, for the
2511particular marker type specified.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002512
2513A simple example of an external COM processor can be found in djpeg.c.
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002514Also, see jpegtran.c for an example of using jpeg_save_markers.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002515
2516
2517Raw (downsampled) image data
2518----------------------------
2519
2520Some applications need to supply already-downsampled image data to the JPEG
2521compressor, or to receive raw downsampled data from the decompressor. The
2522library supports this requirement by allowing the application to write or
2523read raw data, bypassing the normal preprocessing or postprocessing steps.
2524The interface is different from the standard one and is somewhat harder to
2525use. If your interest is merely in bypassing color conversion, we recommend
2526that you use the standard interface and simply set jpeg_color_space =
2527in_color_space (or jpeg_color_space = out_color_space for decompression).
2528The mechanism described in this section is necessary only to supply or
2529receive downsampled image data, in which not all components have the same
2530dimensions.
2531
2532
2533To compress raw data, you must supply the data in the colorspace to be used
2534in the JPEG file (please read the earlier section on Special color spaces)
2535and downsampled to the sampling factors specified in the JPEG parameters.
2536You must supply the data in the format used internally by the JPEG library,
2537namely a JSAMPIMAGE array. This is an array of pointers to two-dimensional
2538arrays, each of type JSAMPARRAY. Each 2-D array holds the values for one
2539color component. This structure is necessary since the components are of
2540different sizes. If the image dimensions are not a multiple of the MCU size,
2541you must also pad the data correctly (usually, this is done by replicating
2542the last column and/or row). The data must be padded to a multiple of a DCT
2543block in each component: that is, each downsampled row must contain a
2544multiple of 8 valid samples, and there must be a multiple of 8 sample rows
2545for each component. (For applications such as conversion of digital TV
2546images, the standard image size is usually a multiple of the DCT block size,
2547so that no padding need actually be done.)
2548
2549The procedure for compression of raw data is basically the same as normal
2550compression, except that you call jpeg_write_raw_data() in place of
2551jpeg_write_scanlines(). Before calling jpeg_start_compress(), you must do
2552the following:
2553 * Set cinfo->raw_data_in to TRUE. (It is set FALSE by jpeg_set_defaults().)
2554 This notifies the library that you will be supplying raw data.
2555 * Ensure jpeg_color_space is correct --- an explicit jpeg_set_colorspace()
2556 call is a good idea. Note that since color conversion is bypassed,
2557 in_color_space is ignored, except that jpeg_set_defaults() uses it to
2558 choose the default jpeg_color_space setting.
2559 * Ensure the sampling factors, cinfo->comp_info[i].h_samp_factor and
2560 cinfo->comp_info[i].v_samp_factor, are correct. Since these indicate the
2561 dimensions of the data you are supplying, it's wise to set them
2562 explicitly, rather than assuming the library's defaults are what you want.
2563
2564To pass raw data to the library, call jpeg_write_raw_data() in place of
2565jpeg_write_scanlines(). The two routines work similarly except that
2566jpeg_write_raw_data takes a JSAMPIMAGE data array rather than JSAMPARRAY.
2567The scanlines count passed to and returned from jpeg_write_raw_data is
2568measured in terms of the component with the largest v_samp_factor.
2569
2570jpeg_write_raw_data() processes one MCU row per call, which is to say
2571v_samp_factor*DCTSIZE sample rows of each component. The passed num_lines
2572value must be at least max_v_samp_factor*DCTSIZE, and the return value will
2573be exactly that amount (or possibly some multiple of that amount, in future
2574library versions). This is true even on the last call at the bottom of the
2575image; don't forget to pad your data as necessary.
2576
2577The required dimensions of the supplied data can be computed for each
2578component as
2579 cinfo->comp_info[i].width_in_blocks*DCTSIZE samples per row
2580 cinfo->comp_info[i].height_in_blocks*DCTSIZE rows in image
2581after jpeg_start_compress() has initialized those fields. If the valid data
2582is smaller than this, it must be padded appropriately. For some sampling
2583factors and image sizes, additional dummy DCT blocks are inserted to make
2584the image a multiple of the MCU dimensions. The library creates such dummy
2585blocks itself; it does not read them from your supplied data. Therefore you
2586need never pad by more than DCTSIZE samples. An example may help here.
2587Assume 2h2v downsampling of YCbCr data, that is
2588 cinfo->comp_info[0].h_samp_factor = 2 for Y
2589 cinfo->comp_info[0].v_samp_factor = 2
2590 cinfo->comp_info[1].h_samp_factor = 1 for Cb
2591 cinfo->comp_info[1].v_samp_factor = 1
2592 cinfo->comp_info[2].h_samp_factor = 1 for Cr
2593 cinfo->comp_info[2].v_samp_factor = 1
2594and suppose that the nominal image dimensions (cinfo->image_width and
2595cinfo->image_height) are 101x101 pixels. Then jpeg_start_compress() will
2596compute downsampled_width = 101 and width_in_blocks = 13 for Y,
2597downsampled_width = 51 and width_in_blocks = 7 for Cb and Cr (and the same
2598for the height fields). You must pad the Y data to at least 13*8 = 104
2599columns and rows, the Cb/Cr data to at least 7*8 = 56 columns and rows. The
2600MCU height is max_v_samp_factor = 2 DCT rows so you must pass at least 16
2601scanlines on each call to jpeg_write_raw_data(), which is to say 16 actual
2602sample rows of Y and 8 each of Cb and Cr. A total of 7 MCU rows are needed,
2603so you must pass a total of 7*16 = 112 "scanlines". The last DCT block row
2604of Y data is dummy, so it doesn't matter what you pass for it in the data
2605arrays, but the scanlines count must total up to 112 so that all of the Cb
2606and Cr data gets passed.
2607
Thomas G. Lanea8b67c41995-03-15 00:00:00 +00002608Output suspension is supported with raw-data compression: if the data
2609destination module suspends, jpeg_write_raw_data() will return 0.
2610In this case the same data rows must be passed again on the next call.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002611
2612
2613Decompression with raw data output implies bypassing all postprocessing:
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002614you cannot ask for rescaling or color quantization, for instance. More
2615seriously, you must deal with the color space and sampling factors present in
2616the incoming file. If your application only handles, say, 2h1v YCbCr data,
2617you must check for and fail on other color spaces or other sampling factors.
2618The library will not convert to a different color space for you.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002619
2620To obtain raw data output, set cinfo->raw_data_out = TRUE before
2621jpeg_start_decompress() (it is set FALSE by jpeg_read_header()). Be sure to
2622verify that the color space and sampling factors are ones you can handle.
2623Then call jpeg_read_raw_data() in place of jpeg_read_scanlines(). The
2624decompression process is otherwise the same as usual.
2625
2626jpeg_read_raw_data() returns one MCU row per call, and thus you must pass a
2627buffer of at least max_v_samp_factor*DCTSIZE scanlines (scanline counting is
2628the same as for raw-data compression). The buffer you pass must be large
2629enough to hold the actual data plus padding to DCT-block boundaries. As with
2630compression, any entirely dummy DCT blocks are not processed so you need not
2631allocate space for them, but the total scanline count includes them. The
2632above example of computing buffer dimensions for raw-data compression is
2633equally valid for decompression.
2634
2635Input suspension is supported with raw-data decompression: if the data source
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002636module suspends, jpeg_read_raw_data() will return 0. You can also use
2637buffered-image mode to read raw data in multiple passes.
2638
2639
2640Really raw data: DCT coefficients
2641---------------------------------
2642
2643It is possible to read or write the contents of a JPEG file as raw DCT
2644coefficients. This facility is mainly intended for use in lossless
2645transcoding between different JPEG file formats. Other possible applications
2646include lossless cropping of a JPEG image, lossless reassembly of a
2647multi-strip or multi-tile TIFF/JPEG file into a single JPEG datastream, etc.
2648
2649To read the contents of a JPEG file as DCT coefficients, open the file and do
2650jpeg_read_header() as usual. But instead of calling jpeg_start_decompress()
2651and jpeg_read_scanlines(), call jpeg_read_coefficients(). This will read the
2652entire image into a set of virtual coefficient-block arrays, one array per
2653component. The return value is a pointer to an array of virtual-array
2654descriptors. Each virtual array can be accessed directly using the JPEG
2655memory manager's access_virt_barray method (see Memory management, below,
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +00002656and also read structure.txt's discussion of virtual array handling). Or,
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002657for simple transcoding to a different JPEG file format, the array list can
2658just be handed directly to jpeg_write_coefficients().
2659
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002660Each block in the block arrays contains quantized coefficient values in
2661normal array order (not JPEG zigzag order). The block arrays contain only
2662DCT blocks containing real data; any entirely-dummy blocks added to fill out
2663interleaved MCUs at the right or bottom edges of the image are discarded
2664during reading and are not stored in the block arrays. (The size of each
2665block array can be determined from the width_in_blocks and height_in_blocks
2666fields of the component's comp_info entry.) This is also the data format
2667expected by jpeg_write_coefficients().
2668
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002669When you are done using the virtual arrays, call jpeg_finish_decompress()
2670to release the array storage and return the decompression object to an idle
2671state; or just call jpeg_destroy() if you don't need to reuse the object.
2672
2673If you use a suspending data source, jpeg_read_coefficients() will return
2674NULL if it is forced to suspend; a non-NULL return value indicates successful
2675completion. You need not test for a NULL return value when using a
2676non-suspending data source.
2677
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002678It is also possible to call jpeg_read_coefficients() to obtain access to the
2679decoder's coefficient arrays during a normal decode cycle in buffered-image
2680mode. This frammish might be useful for progressively displaying an incoming
2681image and then re-encoding it without loss. To do this, decode in buffered-
2682image mode as discussed previously, then call jpeg_read_coefficients() after
2683the last jpeg_finish_output() call. The arrays will be available for your use
2684until you call jpeg_finish_decompress().
2685
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002686
2687To write the contents of a JPEG file as DCT coefficients, you must provide
2688the DCT coefficients stored in virtual block arrays. You can either pass
2689block arrays read from an input JPEG file by jpeg_read_coefficients(), or
2690allocate virtual arrays from the JPEG compression object and fill them
2691yourself. In either case, jpeg_write_coefficients() is substituted for
2692jpeg_start_compress() and jpeg_write_scanlines(). Thus the sequence is
2693 * Create compression object
2694 * Set all compression parameters as necessary
2695 * Request virtual arrays if needed
2696 * jpeg_write_coefficients()
2697 * jpeg_finish_compress()
2698 * Destroy or re-use compression object
2699jpeg_write_coefficients() is passed a pointer to an array of virtual block
2700array descriptors; the number of arrays is equal to cinfo.num_components.
2701
2702The virtual arrays need only have been requested, not realized, before
2703jpeg_write_coefficients() is called. A side-effect of
2704jpeg_write_coefficients() is to realize any virtual arrays that have been
2705requested from the compression object's memory manager. Thus, when obtaining
2706the virtual arrays from the compression object, you should fill the arrays
2707after calling jpeg_write_coefficients(). The data is actually written out
2708when you call jpeg_finish_compress(); jpeg_write_coefficients() only writes
2709the file header.
2710
2711When writing raw DCT coefficients, it is crucial that the JPEG quantization
2712tables and sampling factors match the way the data was encoded, or the
2713resulting file will be invalid. For transcoding from an existing JPEG file,
2714we recommend using jpeg_copy_critical_parameters(). This routine initializes
2715all the compression parameters to default values (like jpeg_set_defaults()),
2716then copies the critical information from a source decompression object.
2717The decompression object should have just been used to read the entire
2718JPEG input file --- that is, it should be awaiting jpeg_finish_decompress().
2719
2720jpeg_write_coefficients() marks all tables stored in the compression object
2721as needing to be written to the output file (thus, it acts like
2722jpeg_start_compress(cinfo, TRUE)). This is for safety's sake, to avoid
2723emitting abbreviated JPEG files by accident. If you really want to emit an
2724abbreviated JPEG file, call jpeg_suppress_tables(), or set the tables'
2725individual sent_table flags, between calling jpeg_write_coefficients() and
2726jpeg_finish_compress().
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002727
2728
2729Progress monitoring
2730-------------------
2731
2732Some applications may need to regain control from the JPEG library every so
2733often. The typical use of this feature is to produce a percent-done bar or
2734other progress display. (For a simple example, see cjpeg.c or djpeg.c.)
2735Although you do get control back frequently during the data-transferring pass
2736(the jpeg_read_scanlines or jpeg_write_scanlines loop), any additional passes
2737will occur inside jpeg_finish_compress or jpeg_start_decompress; those
2738routines may take a long time to execute, and you don't get control back
2739until they are done.
2740
2741You can define a progress-monitor routine which will be called periodically
2742by the library. No guarantees are made about how often this call will occur,
2743so we don't recommend you use it for mouse tracking or anything like that.
2744At present, a call will occur once per MCU row, scanline, or sample row
2745group, whichever unit is convenient for the current processing mode; so the
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002746wider the image, the longer the time between calls. During the data
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002747transferring pass, only one call occurs per call of jpeg_read_scanlines or
2748jpeg_write_scanlines, so don't pass a large number of scanlines at once if
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002749you want fine resolution in the progress count. (If you really need to use
2750the callback mechanism for time-critical tasks like mouse tracking, you could
2751insert additional calls inside some of the library's inner loops.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002752
2753To establish a progress-monitor callback, create a struct jpeg_progress_mgr,
2754fill in its progress_monitor field with a pointer to your callback routine,
2755and set cinfo->progress to point to the struct. The callback will be called
2756whenever cinfo->progress is non-NULL. (This pointer is set to NULL by
2757jpeg_create_compress or jpeg_create_decompress; the library will not change
2758it thereafter. So if you allocate dynamic storage for the progress struct,
2759make sure it will live as long as the JPEG object does. Allocating from the
2760JPEG memory manager with lifetime JPOOL_PERMANENT will work nicely.) You
2761can use the same callback routine for both compression and decompression.
2762
2763The jpeg_progress_mgr struct contains four fields which are set by the library:
2764 long pass_counter; /* work units completed in this pass */
2765 long pass_limit; /* total number of work units in this pass */
2766 int completed_passes; /* passes completed so far */
2767 int total_passes; /* total number of passes expected */
2768During any one pass, pass_counter increases from 0 up to (not including)
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002769pass_limit; the step size is usually but not necessarily 1. The pass_limit
2770value may change from one pass to another. The expected total number of
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002771passes is in total_passes, and the number of passes already completed is in
2772completed_passes. Thus the fraction of work completed may be estimated as
2773 completed_passes + (pass_counter/pass_limit)
2774 --------------------------------------------
2775 total_passes
2776ignoring the fact that the passes may not be equal amounts of work.
2777
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002778When decompressing, pass_limit can even change within a pass, because it
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002779depends on the number of scans in the JPEG file, which isn't always known in
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002780advance. The computed fraction-of-work-done may jump suddenly (if the library
2781discovers it has overestimated the number of scans) or even decrease (in the
2782opposite case). It is not wise to put great faith in the work estimate.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002783
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002784When using the decompressor's buffered-image mode, the progress monitor work
2785estimate is likely to be completely unhelpful, because the library has no way
2786to know how many output passes will be demanded of it. Currently, the library
2787sets total_passes based on the assumption that there will be one more output
2788pass if the input file end hasn't yet been read (jpeg_input_complete() isn't
2789TRUE), but no more output passes if the file end has been reached when the
2790output pass is started. This means that total_passes will rise as additional
2791output passes are requested. If you have a way of determining the input file
2792size, estimating progress based on the fraction of the file that's been read
2793will probably be more useful than using the library's value.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002794
2795
2796Memory management
2797-----------------
2798
2799This section covers some key facts about the JPEG library's built-in memory
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +00002800manager. For more info, please read structure.txt's section about the memory
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002801manager, and consult the source code if necessary.
2802
2803All memory and temporary file allocation within the library is done via the
2804memory manager. If necessary, you can replace the "back end" of the memory
2805manager to control allocation yourself (for example, if you don't want the
2806library to use malloc() and free() for some reason).
2807
2808Some data is allocated "permanently" and will not be freed until the JPEG
2809object is destroyed. Most data is allocated "per image" and is freed by
2810jpeg_finish_compress, jpeg_finish_decompress, or jpeg_abort. You can call the
2811memory manager yourself to allocate structures that will automatically be
2812freed at these times. Typical code for this is
2813 ptr = (*cinfo->mem->alloc_small) ((j_common_ptr) cinfo, JPOOL_IMAGE, size);
2814Use JPOOL_PERMANENT to get storage that lasts as long as the JPEG object.
2815Use alloc_large instead of alloc_small for anything bigger than a few Kbytes.
2816There are also alloc_sarray and alloc_barray routines that automatically
2817build 2-D sample or block arrays.
2818
2819The library's minimum space requirements to process an image depend on the
2820image's width, but not on its height, because the library ordinarily works
2821with "strip" buffers that are as wide as the image but just a few rows high.
2822Some operating modes (eg, two-pass color quantization) require full-image
2823buffers. Such buffers are treated as "virtual arrays": only the current strip
2824need be in memory, and the rest can be swapped out to a temporary file.
2825
2826If you use the simplest memory manager back end (jmemnobs.c), then no
2827temporary files are used; virtual arrays are simply malloc()'d. Images bigger
2828than memory can be processed only if your system supports virtual memory.
2829The other memory manager back ends support temporary files of various flavors
2830and thus work in machines without virtual memory. They may also be useful on
2831Unix machines if you need to process images that exceed available swap space.
2832
2833When using temporary files, the library will make the in-memory buffers for
2834its virtual arrays just big enough to stay within a "maximum memory" setting.
2835Your application can set this limit by setting cinfo->mem->max_memory_to_use
2836after creating the JPEG object. (Of course, there is still a minimum size for
2837the buffers, so the max-memory setting is effective only if it is bigger than
2838the minimum space needed.) If you allocate any large structures yourself, you
2839must allocate them before jpeg_start_compress() or jpeg_start_decompress() in
2840order to have them counted against the max memory limit. Also keep in mind
2841that space allocated with alloc_small() is ignored, on the assumption that
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002842it's too small to be worth worrying about; so a reasonable safety margin
2843should be left when setting max_memory_to_use.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002844
2845If you use the jmemname.c or jmemdos.c memory manager back end, it is
2846important to clean up the JPEG object properly to ensure that the temporary
2847files get deleted. (This is especially crucial with jmemdos.c, where the
2848"temporary files" may be extended-memory segments; if they are not freed,
2849DOS will require a reboot to recover the memory.) Thus, with these memory
2850managers, it's a good idea to provide a signal handler that will trap any
2851early exit from your program. The handler should call either jpeg_abort()
2852or jpeg_destroy() for any active JPEG objects. A handler is not needed with
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +00002853jmemnobs.c, and shouldn't be necessary with jmemansi.c or jmemmac.c either,
2854since the C library is supposed to take care of deleting files made with
2855tmpfile().
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002856
2857
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002858Memory usage
2859------------
2860
2861Working memory requirements while performing compression or decompression
2862depend on image dimensions, image characteristics (such as colorspace and
2863JPEG process), and operating mode (application-selected options).
2864
2865As of v6b, the decompressor requires:
2866 1. About 24K in more-or-less-fixed-size data. This varies a bit depending
2867 on operating mode and image characteristics (particularly color vs.
2868 grayscale), but it doesn't depend on image dimensions.
2869 2. Strip buffers (of size proportional to the image width) for IDCT and
2870 upsampling results. The worst case for commonly used sampling factors
2871 is about 34 bytes * width in pixels for a color image. A grayscale image
2872 only needs about 8 bytes per pixel column.
2873 3. A full-image DCT coefficient buffer is needed to decode a multi-scan JPEG
2874 file (including progressive JPEGs), or whenever you select buffered-image
2875 mode. This takes 2 bytes/coefficient. At typical 2x2 sampling, that's
2876 3 bytes per pixel for a color image. Worst case (1x1 sampling) requires
2877 6 bytes/pixel. For grayscale, figure 2 bytes/pixel.
2878 4. To perform 2-pass color quantization, the decompressor also needs a
2879 128K color lookup table and a full-image pixel buffer (3 bytes/pixel).
2880This does not count any memory allocated by the application, such as a
2881buffer to hold the final output image.
2882
2883The above figures are valid for 8-bit JPEG data precision and a machine with
288432-bit ints. For 12-bit JPEG data, double the size of the strip buffers and
2885quantization pixel buffer. The "fixed-size" data will be somewhat smaller
2886with 16-bit ints, larger with 64-bit ints. Also, CMYK or other unusual
2887color spaces will require different amounts of space.
2888
2889The full-image coefficient and pixel buffers, if needed at all, do not
2890have to be fully RAM resident; you can have the library use temporary
2891files instead when the total memory usage would exceed a limit you set.
2892(But if your OS supports virtual memory, it's probably better to just use
2893jmemnobs and let the OS do the swapping.)
2894
2895The compressor's memory requirements are similar, except that it has no need
2896for color quantization. Also, it needs a full-image DCT coefficient buffer
2897if Huffman-table optimization is asked for, even if progressive mode is not
2898requested.
2899
2900If you need more detailed information about memory usage in a particular
2901situation, you can enable the MEM_STATS code in jmemmgr.c.
2902
2903
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002904Library compile-time options
2905----------------------------
2906
2907A number of compile-time options are available by modifying jmorecfg.h.
2908
2909The JPEG standard provides for both the baseline 8-bit DCT process and
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002910a 12-bit DCT process. The IJG code supports 12-bit lossy JPEG if you define
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002911BITS_IN_JSAMPLE as 12 rather than 8. Note that this causes JSAMPLE to be
2912larger than a char, so it affects the surrounding application's image data.
Thomas G. Lane9ba2f5e1994-12-07 00:00:00 +00002913The sample applications cjpeg and djpeg can support 12-bit mode only for PPM
2914and GIF file formats; you must disable the other file formats to compile a
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +0000291512-bit cjpeg or djpeg. (install.txt has more information about that.)
Thomas G. Lanea8b67c41995-03-15 00:00:00 +00002916At present, a 12-bit library can handle *only* 12-bit images, not both
2917precisions. (If you need to include both 8- and 12-bit libraries in a single
2918application, you could probably do it by defining NEED_SHORT_EXTERNAL_NAMES
2919for just one of the copies. You'd have to access the 8-bit and 12-bit copies
2920from separate application source files. This is untested ... if you try it,
2921we'd like to hear whether it works!)
2922
2923Note that a 12-bit library always compresses in Huffman optimization mode,
2924in order to generate valid Huffman tables. This is necessary because our
2925default Huffman tables only cover 8-bit data. If you need to output 12-bit
2926files in one pass, you'll have to supply suitable default Huffman tables.
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002927You may also want to supply your own DCT quantization tables; the existing
2928quality-scaling code has been developed for 8-bit use, and probably doesn't
2929generate especially good tables for 12-bit.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002930
2931The maximum number of components (color channels) in the image is determined
2932by MAX_COMPONENTS. The JPEG standard allows up to 255 components, but we
2933expect that few applications will need more than four or so.
2934
2935On machines with unusual data type sizes, you may be able to improve
2936performance or reduce memory space by tweaking the various typedefs in
2937jmorecfg.h. In particular, on some RISC CPUs, access to arrays of "short"s
2938is quite slow; consider trading memory for speed by making JCOEF, INT16, and
2939UINT16 be "int" or "unsigned int". UINT8 is also a candidate to become int.
2940You probably don't want to make JSAMPLE be int unless you have lots of memory
2941to burn.
2942
2943You can reduce the size of the library by compiling out various optional
2944functions. To do this, undefine xxx_SUPPORTED symbols as necessary.
2945
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002946You can also save a few K by not having text error messages in the library;
2947the standard error message table occupies about 5Kb. This is particularly
2948reasonable for embedded applications where there's no good way to display
2949a message anyway. To do this, remove the creation of the message table
2950(jpeg_std_message_table[]) from jerror.c, and alter format_message to do
2951something reasonable without it. You could output the numeric value of the
2952message code number, for example. If you do this, you can also save a couple
2953more K by modifying the TRACEMSn() macros in jerror.h to expand to nothing;
2954you don't need trace capability anyway, right?
2955
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002956
2957Portability considerations
2958--------------------------
2959
2960The JPEG library has been written to be extremely portable; the sample
2961applications cjpeg and djpeg are slightly less so. This section summarizes
2962the design goals in this area. (If you encounter any bugs that cause the
2963library to be less portable than is claimed here, we'd appreciate hearing
2964about them.)
2965
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002966The code works fine on ANSI C, C++, and pre-ANSI C compilers, using any of
2967the popular system include file setups, and some not-so-popular ones too.
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +00002968See install.txt for configuration procedures.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002969
2970The code is not dependent on the exact sizes of the C data types. As
2971distributed, we make the assumptions that
2972 char is at least 8 bits wide
2973 short is at least 16 bits wide
2974 int is at least 16 bits wide
2975 long is at least 32 bits wide
2976(These are the minimum requirements of the ANSI C standard.) Wider types will
2977work fine, although memory may be used inefficiently if char is much larger
2978than 8 bits or short is much bigger than 16 bits. The code should work
2979equally well with 16- or 32-bit ints.
2980
2981In a system where these assumptions are not met, you may be able to make the
2982code work by modifying the typedefs in jmorecfg.h. However, you will probably
2983have difficulty if int is less than 16 bits wide, since references to plain
2984int abound in the code.
2985
2986char can be either signed or unsigned, although the code runs faster if an
2987unsigned char type is available. If char is wider than 8 bits, you will need
2988to redefine JOCTET and/or provide custom data source/destination managers so
2989that JOCTET represents exactly 8 bits of data on external storage.
2990
2991The JPEG library proper does not assume ASCII representation of characters.
2992But some of the image file I/O modules in cjpeg/djpeg do have ASCII
2993dependencies in file-header manipulation; so does cjpeg's select_file_type()
2994routine.
2995
2996The JPEG library does not rely heavily on the C library. In particular, C
2997stdio is used only by the data source/destination modules and the error
2998handler, all of which are application-replaceable. (cjpeg/djpeg are more
2999heavily dependent on stdio.) malloc and free are called only from the memory
3000manager "back end" module, so you can use a different memory allocator by
3001replacing that one file.
3002
3003The code generally assumes that C names must be unique in the first 15
3004characters. However, global function names can be made unique in the
3005first 6 characters by defining NEED_SHORT_EXTERNAL_NAMES.
3006
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +00003007More info about porting the code may be gleaned by reading jconfig.txt,
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00003008jmorecfg.h, and jinclude.h.
3009
3010
3011Notes for MS-DOS implementors
3012-----------------------------
3013
3014The IJG code is designed to work efficiently in 80x86 "small" or "medium"
3015memory models (i.e., data pointers are 16 bits unless explicitly declared
3016"far"; code pointers can be either size). You may be able to use small
3017model to compile cjpeg or djpeg by itself, but you will probably have to use
3018medium model for any larger application. This won't make much difference in
3019performance. You *will* take a noticeable performance hit if you use a
3020large-data memory model (perhaps 10%-25%), and you should avoid "huge" model
3021if at all possible.
3022
3023The JPEG library typically needs 2Kb-3Kb of stack space. It will also
3024malloc about 20K-30K of near heap space while executing (and lots of far
3025heap, but that doesn't count in this calculation). This figure will vary
3026depending on selected operating mode, and to a lesser extent on image size.
Thomas G. Lane9ba2f5e1994-12-07 00:00:00 +00003027There is also about 5Kb-6Kb of constant data which will be allocated in the
3028near data segment (about 4Kb of this is the error message table).
3029Thus you have perhaps 20K available for other modules' static data and near
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00003030heap space before you need to go to a larger memory model. The C library's
3031static data will account for several K of this, but that still leaves a good
3032deal for your needs. (If you are tight on space, you could reduce the sizes
3033of the I/O buffers allocated by jdatasrc.c and jdatadst.c, say from 4K to
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +000030341K. Another possibility is to move the error message table to far memory;
3035this should be doable with only localized hacking on jerror.c.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00003036
3037About 2K of the near heap space is "permanent" memory that will not be
3038released until you destroy the JPEG object. This is only an issue if you
3039save a JPEG object between compression or decompression operations.
3040
3041Far data space may also be a tight resource when you are dealing with large
3042images. The most memory-intensive case is decompression with two-pass color
3043quantization, or single-pass quantization to an externally supplied color
3044map. This requires a 128Kb color lookup table plus strip buffers amounting
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00003045to about 40 bytes per column for typical sampling ratios (eg, about 25600
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00003046bytes for a 640-pixel-wide image). You may not be able to process wide
3047images if you have large data structures of your own.
3048
3049Of course, all of these concerns vanish if you use a 32-bit flat-memory-model
3050compiler, such as DJGPP or Watcom C. We highly recommend flat model if you
3051can use it; the JPEG library is significantly faster in flat model.