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* sjpeg: 's' stands for 'simple'.

* sjpeg is a simple encoding library for encoding baseline JPEG files.
  It's also a command-line tool that takes PNG or JPEG images as input
  to produce JPEG files.

* Why 'simple'? Well, the encoder used to be one single source file. And
  not a large one, moreover. Over time it grew and was split, for readability,
  but the spirit remains the same.

* The sjpeg library:
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The main header is src/sjpeg.h.
This is mainly just one function to call, defined in src/sjpeg.h

size_t SjpegCompress(const uint8_t* rgb, int width, int height,
                     float quality, uint8_t** out_data);

This function will make a lot of automatic decisions based on input samples.

There is a more fine-tuned variant available too:

size_t SjpegEncode(const uint8_t* const data,
                   int W, int H, int stride,
                   uint8_t** const out_data,
                   float quality, int compression_method,
                   SjpegYUVMode yuv_mode);

as well as functions with a C++ string-based API.

The library comes primarily with a plain-C API, but a C++ version is available
too, that uses std::string as interface.

SjpegFreeBuffer() can be called release the buffers returned by SjpegEncode()
and SjpegCompress().

Also included in the library: some helper functions to inspect JPEG bitstream.
They are meant to help re-processing a JPEG source:
  SjpegDimensions(): quickly get the JPEG picture dimensions.
  SjpegFindQuantizer(): return the quantization matrices
  SjpegEstimateQuality(): return an estimate of the encoding quality

* sjpeg::EncoderParam interface:
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This should be the most fine-tuned use of the library: sjpeg::EncoderParam gives
access to a lot of fine controls (C++ only). See src/sjpeg.h for details.

In particular, using sjpeg::EncoderParam is the recommended way of re-compressing
a JPEG input. Here is the recipe:
  * use SjpegFindQuantizer to extract the quantization matrices from the source
  * use sjpeg::EncoderParam::SetQuantMatrix() to transfer them to the encoding
    parameters (with a reduction factor if necessary)
  * call sjpeg::SjpegEncode() with this parameter

Alternatively, one can use SjpegEstimateQuality() and
sjpeg::EncoderParam::SetQuality() to pass a quality factor instead of using the
matrices.

sjpeg::EncoderParam is also useful for transfering some metadata to the final
JPEG bitstream.

* 'Riskiness' score:
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The riskiness score is a decision score to help decide between using YUV 4:2:0
and YUV 4:4:4 downsampling. The function to call is:

 int SjpegRiskiness(const uint8_t* rgb, int width, int height, int step, float* risk);

which returns a recommendation for 'yuv_mode' to use in the above API.

* The 'sjpeg' command line tool:
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examples/sjpeg is a very simple tool to compress a PNG/JPEG file to JPEG.

sjpeg in.png -o out.jpg -q 70     # compress the PNG source with quality 70
sjpeg in.jpg -o out.jpg -r 90     # recompress JPEG input to ~90%

sjpeg has various options to change the encoding method. Just try `sjpeg -h`.

* The 'vjpeg' command line tool:
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examples/vjpeg is a (non-essential) visualization tool, built with OpenGL/GLUT.
It allows changing the compression parameters with the keyboard, and visually
inspect the result. This is mostly educational, since most of the parameters
from sjpeg::EncoderParam can be triggered from the keyboard.

* Building the library and tools:
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Please read the instructions in the INSTALL file.

Basically, you can use the supplied Makefile or generate your build with
cmake:

  . `make -j`, or
  . `mkdir build && cd build && cmake ../ && make -j`

* Discussion list
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The following forum can be used to report bugs or just discuss sjpeg:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sjpeg
