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- Version 4.2 of
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- JPEG - coder/decoder/viewer adapted for the Retina Gfx-Board
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- (changes at the end of this file)
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- If you don't own a Retina graphics board, this
- may just be a jpeg encoder/decoder for you.
-
- Though RetinaDisplay is already able to display
- JPEG pictures, here's a better alternative.
-
- Included are two executables:
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- cjpeg does JPEG-compression, just type
- cjpeg -h for a short syntax summary.
- This program has just been adapted by
- me to use the multipic.library
- to read various picture formats
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- djpeg does JPEG-decompression, and to this
- one I added the watch-directly-on-Retina
- feature, it's enabled by default.
- You may also try djpeg -h here.
-
- Both programs are compiled from the official
- "fourth public release of the Independent JPEG
- Group's free JPEG software". Only djpeg has been
- modified by me.
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- Why use djpeg instead of RetinaDisplay?
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- - djpeg is faster, it's even faster than most commercial
- jpeg-loaders available.
- - djpeg lets you watch the picture while it's decoded
- - djpeg supports more jpeg-derivatives
- - djpeg supports 8-bit as well as 24-bit display on
- the retina board. Watching JPEGs with the
- -greyscale switch given is even faster.
- - djpeg is able to do "color-quantization", that is,
- if you enable that feature by "-color 256",
- an 8-bit screen will be opened on the
- Retina, giving you the ability to watch even
- larger pictures than it may be possible
- in 24-bits.
-
- REQUIREMENTS:
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- You NEED to have IXEmul.library available, this library
- is part of Markus Wild's GNU C (2.3.3) port for the
- amiga. It's available from several ftp-servers.
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- NOTES:
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- djpeg spits its output to standard I/O, unless
- you specify anything else with a redirection
- ("djpeg -targa bla.jpg >bla.targa")
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- press CTRL-C when djpeg is finished to close the screen.
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- I compiled a >=68020 and 68881 version, too, but there were
- no measurable speed-difference.
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- If anyone wants the source-code, he'd contact me via email,
- my adress is lkv@mania.robin.de
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- The original JPEG V4 source is available from several ftp-servers.
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- Just enjoy it,
-
- Lutz Vieweg
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-
- CHANGES:
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- 4.2
- - oh no, sorry... the archive with 4.1 included
- the old 4.0 executables...
- - for consistency, CTRL-C is now used to abort
- djpeg in any case.
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- 4.1
- - now you can always stop djpeg with CTRL-C
- while decoding...
- - cjpeg changed: it uses now the multipic.library
- (supplied with the Retina Software 1.3 and up)
- to load the original picture, therefore any
- format supported by this library may be packed!
- - cjpeg now uses infile outfile syntax
- djpeg still writes on stdout by default.
- - cjpeg progess display enabled
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