Bug#675212: cjpeg maxmemory

2012-05-31 Thread Guido Vollbeding
$ cjpeg -progressive -arithmetic -rgb -block 1 -outfile huge1.jpg -quality 100 huge.ppm Just noticed another point: The "-quality 100" here. This adds to the size of the compressed file but with no benefit here. The default quality setting (75) is already lossless for block size 1 (due to DCT

Bug#675212: cjpeg maxmemory

2012-05-31 Thread Guido Vollbeding
Hello Bill, Mathieu The maxmemory and JPEGMEM settings can only work when libjpeg has an alternative to use temporary files instead of RAM. But on modern systems libjpeg is usually installed with the "jmemnobs.c" (no backing store) memory module, and then these settings are not regarded, because