Re: jpeg quality factor.

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Hi,
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 18:42 +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote:
> Side note: as suggested by Sven in #gimp, I just had a look at> ImageMagick to try and find out how they retreive or guess the quality> settings from JPEG files.  The code is about 100 lines long and can be> found in ImageMagick-6.3.5/coders/jpeg.c, around line 830.  It is> based on a comparison of the difference produced by the quantization> tables in the file with the 100 possible tables produced by libjpeg.> If no exact match is found, then the closest one is selected.  They> use pre-computed hashes and sums for the libjpeg tables in order to> speed up the comparisons.  The license of ImageMagick is compatible> with the GPL so we could even consider re-using their code.  We would> only have to include their license with the jpeg plug-in.
If it can improve a common workflow, it's probably worth it. Please usethe code from ImageMagick then as it should be well tested already. Andplease place this code into a separate file in the plug-ins/jpeg folder.

Sven

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