On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 01:52:28PM +0530, Mukund Sivaraman wrote: > Hi all > > In reply to Gregory Maxwell: > >> It's well known around the Internet that to achieve compatibility you > >> should be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you > >> accept. Applied to JPEG: Use only Huffman coding when encoding ? > >> except maybe if you know that all recipients can handle arithmetic > >> coding ? but support both encodings when decoding. > > >Absolutely. This is an excellent argument and I think is sufficient to > >justify the inclusion alone. > > Thank you everyone for the replies. I did not know earlier that Fedora > was switching to libjpeg-turbo. I have created a new bug now: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639672 > Add support for decoding arithmetic coded files in libjpeg-turbo > > It contains a patch against upstream libjpeg-turbo HEAD, and the patch > has been submitted upstream too: > > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3080268&group_id=303195&atid=1278160 > > This patch has been tested against some arithmetic coded images. > > I wish libjpeg-turbo also accepts to include creating arithmetic coded > images too, as the project is not really going to affect creation of > such images if an application wants to do so. But this can be saved > for another argument, and doesn't stand in the way of decode support.
We decided to accept arithmetic method into libjpeg-turbo upstream as soon as Fedora legal says it's fine. Regards, Adam -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
