Re: TurboJPEG and the meaning of life

[Peter Å. <as...@ce...>]

> Pursuant to our earlier thread about TurboJPEG, I now have a TurboJPEG
> distribution available on SourceForge
> (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=117509&package_id=166
> 100&release_id=362494) which contains both a fully OSS version based on
> libjpeg and a hybrid version based on IPP, and these can be switched at run
> time using the included "switchtjpeg" script.

Very nice!

 
> So now on to an integration question ...  I've managed to successfully build
> a TurboJPEG encoder class based on rfb/JpegCompressor.cxx.  As with the Irix
> accelerated codecs, the new TurboJPEG-enabled codec is enabled by the
> configure script.  Everything seems to build fine, but the problem is that
> the tight encoder doesn't appear to actually use this code path to compress
> JPEG.  Instead, rfb/tightEncode.h has hooks only to libjpeg.  What would be
> the best approach to solving this?  Should I change tightEncode.h such that

The JpegCompressor is fairly new - it was added as late as 2007-07-24. I 
believe Constantin can explain the idea behind it. 

Best regards, 
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