Write to memory buffer instead of file with libjpeg?
- by Richard Knop
I have found this function which uses libjpeg to write to a file:
int write_jpeg_file( char *filename )
{
struct jpeg_compress_struct cinfo;
struct jpeg_error_mgr jerr;
/* this is a pointer to one row of image data */
JSAMPROW row_pointer[1];
FILE *outfile = fopen( filename, "wb" );
if ( !outfile )
{
printf("Error opening output jpeg file %s\n!", filename );
return -1;
}
cinfo.err = jpeg_std_error( &jerr );
jpeg_create_compress(&cinfo);
jpeg_stdio_dest(&cinfo, outfile);
/* Setting the parameters of the output file here */
cinfo.image_width = width;
cinfo.image_height = height;
cinfo.input_components = bytes_per_pixel;
cinfo.in_color_space = color_space;
/* default compression parameters, we shouldn't be worried about these */
jpeg_set_defaults( &cinfo );
/* Now do the compression .. */
jpeg_start_compress( &cinfo, TRUE );
/* like reading a file, this time write one row at a time */
while( cinfo.next_scanline < cinfo.image_height )
{
row_pointer[0] = &raw_image[ cinfo.next_scanline * cinfo.image_width * cinfo.input_components];
jpeg_write_scanlines( &cinfo, row_pointer, 1 );
}
/* similar to read file, clean up after we're done compressing */
jpeg_finish_compress( &cinfo );
jpeg_destroy_compress( &cinfo );
fclose( outfile );
/* success code is 1! */
return 1;
}
I would actually need to write the jpeg compressed image just to memory buffer, without saving it to a file, to save time. Could somebody give me an example how to do it?
I have been searching the web for a while but the documentation is very rare if any and examples are also difficult to come by.
