Re: .JPG decompressing?

[daye@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Critical Mass)]

With all the renewed interest in JPEG decompressing on the GS, I guess I'll
make a little advanced notice here...

I have a working port of the v4 JPEG sources (cjpeg and djpeg).  These produce
quality 256 color GIF files, which I leave to the user to get into a GS
viewable for (Prism works great).  

These utilities work for certain with GNO, though I have not tested them with
ORCA yet, as I don't use the ORCA shell very much.  GNO is more suited to
JPEGs and the GS, though, because you can shove the process in the background.
A warning...decompressing JPEGs is SLOW.  A 640x480 JPEG to GIF conversion
takes anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes on a 9MHz/64k Zipped GS.  

Anyways, I'll try to finish cleaning up the error handling routines towards
the end of this week (I have another final in a couple of hours...*eek!*)
and get something posted within the next week.

Interested folks might also bug Dave Huang, because he was doing a port and
optimizing parts of it in assembly to try to speed it up.  (Then again, he
works for a living and is rather busy, something us lowly students can't
appreciate, right Dave?)

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