Re: [Jpeg-users] libjpeg 6c ?

[Guido V. <gu...@jp...>]

paul van den berg wrote:
> 
> Could you summarize for this list what happened?

This is a long story.
The short story is that I'm now realizing the features in a movie
production environment, based on a Motion-JPEG codec.
It turns out that the SmartScale option is the key feature, that's
why the current working name is "SmartScale Motion Picture Codec".
It also turns out that for HD (High Definition) movie processing
it is not sufficient to implement the core functions in C code -
you need to optimize the functions on assembly code basis with
extended media instruction sets (MMX, SSE...) for realtime
application in high definition movie processing.
That's what I'm actually busy with, and that's why I can't tell
you the long story now...

> I would like to see an open future development of IJG-libjpeg.

An open development has not helped in the past - as said the IJG/
libjpeg development was basically an individual effort.
I'm actually quite confident that my current involvement in the
movie coding field will provide a well foundation for coming
further in the right direction.  It considerably extends the
practical experiences, and, hopefully, can generate some fund
for other work...

Regards
Guido