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- To: tiff@sgi.sgi.com
- Subject: TIFF YCbCr
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 14:26:24 +0100
- From: Jacques Nomssi <Nomssi@Physik.TU-Chemnitz.DE>
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- Hello world,
-
- I'm devolloping a DOS based application that handles TIFF files.
- Actually I have two items on my TO DO list:
- - Read TIFF FAX G4 compression
- - Write TIFF YCbCr files.
-
- I've been implementing the TIFF G3 reader using tries for about a
- year. I've both the CCITT standard and a recent beta of Sam Leffler
- TIFF library, but I still have to understand it. Any hint welcome.
-
- There are working G3 and G4 codecs in the library; they've been
- there for many years.
-
- It seems to me the TIFF library doesn't support YCbCr. If I'm right,
- Is the use of YCbCr disrecommanded or (the usual thing) am I just
- overlooking some files in TIFF library.
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- There has been "support" for YCbCr data for quite a long time.
- v3.3beta021 is the current distribution.
-
- I could make good use of a set of test TIFF files: planar and packed
- YCbCr files, Palette files with extra samples, TIFF files with more than 8
- bits/pixel, even some CIE Lab files. I would like to be sure my viewer
- aborts gracefully as recommended. If anyone know where to get those,
- I'll be gratefull if he could let me know.
-
- Palette files are explicitly intended for RGB or greyscale data; not
- YCbCr. There is no direct support for CIELab data in the current
- library. tools/rgb2ycbcr.c is an example program that converts an RGB
- image to a YCbCr image; you can use/modify it to generate some test files.
-
- Sam
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