[Digikam-devel] JPEG2000 support...

[Fabien]

Hi,

Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Yesterday, i have playing with libjasper API :
> 
> http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper
> 
> ... into digiKam core to add support of JPEG2000 file format :
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000
> 
> There is a patch against svn to add a new JPEG2000 image loader :
> 
> http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/jpeg2000.patch
> 
> You need to have libjasper developement package installed on your computer. In 
> all case, this patch will be applied later than digiKam 0.9.0 final release.
> 
> Against JPEG, JPEG2000 features are :
> 
> - 16 bits color depth (JPEG : 8 bits only)
> - Alpha channel support (JPEG no)
> - LossLess compression availalble (JPEG no)
> - Better compression ratio than JPEG, especially with high compression.
> - Better image quality than JPEG, especially with high compression.

Hm, great!
Is there any digital camera with native jpeg2000 support ?

BTW, this make me think we don't have the list of supported formats on 
the website.

I found this :
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/libs/dimg/loaders/README?view=markup

Is it up to date ?

--
Fabien