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| +Advanced usage instructions for the Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software
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| +==========================================================================
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| +
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| +This file describes cjpeg's "switches for wizards".
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| +
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| +The "wizard" switches are intended for experimentation with JPEG by persons
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| +who are reasonably knowledgeable about the JPEG standard. If you don't know
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| +what you are doing, DON'T USE THESE SWITCHES. You'll likely produce files
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| +with worse image quality and/or poorer compression than you'd get from the
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| +default settings. Furthermore, these switches must be used with caution
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| +when making files intended for general use, because not all JPEG decoders
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| +will support unusual JPEG parameter settings.
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| +
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| +Quantization Table Adjustment
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| +-----------------------------
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| +
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| +Ordinarily, cjpeg starts with a default set of tables (the same ones given
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| +as examples in the JPEG standard) and scales them up or down according to
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| +the -quality setting. The details of the scaling algorithm can be found in
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| +jcparam.c. At very low quality settings, some quantization table entries
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| +can get scaled up to values exceeding 255. Although 2-byte quantization
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| +values are supported by the IJG software, this feature is not in baseline
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| +JPEG and is not supported by all implementations. If you need to ensure
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| +wide compatibility of low-quality files, you can constrain the scaled
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| +quantization values to no more than 255 by giving the -baseline switch.
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| +Note that use of -baseline will result in poorer quality for the same file
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| +size, since more bits than necessary are expended on higher AC coefficients.
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| +
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| +You can substitute a different set of quantization values by using the
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| +-qtables switch:
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| + -qtables file Use the quantization tables given in the named file.
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| +The specified file should be a text file containing decimal quantization
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| +values. The file should contain one to four tables, each of 64 elements.
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| +The tables are implicitly numbered 0,1,etc. in order of appearance. Table
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| +entries appear in normal array order (NOT in the zigzag order in which they
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| +will be stored in the JPEG file).
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| +
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| +Quantization table files are free format, in that arbitrary whitespace can
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| +appear between numbers. Also, comments can be included: a comment starts
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| +with '#' and extends to the end of the line. Here is an example file that
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| +duplicates the default quantization tables:
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| +
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| + # Quantization tables given in JPEG spec, section K.1
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| +
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| + # This is table 0 (the luminance table):
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| + 16 11 10 16 24 40 51 61
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| + 12 12 14 19 26 58 60 55
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| + 14 13 16 24 40 57 69 56
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| + 14 17 22 29 51 87 80 62
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| + 18 22 37 56 68 109 103 77
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| + 24 35 55 64 81 104 113 92
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| + 49 64 78 87 103 121 120 101
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| + 72 92 95 98 112 100 103 99
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| +
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| + # This is table 1 (the chrominance table):
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| + 17 18 24 47 99 99 99 99
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| + 18 21 26 66 99 99 99 99
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| + 24 26 56 99 99 99 99 99
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| + 47 66 99 99 99 99 99 99
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| + 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99
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| + 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99
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| + 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99
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| + 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99
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| +
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| +If the -qtables switch is used without -quality, then the specified tables
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| +are used exactly as-is. If both -qtables and -quality are used, then the
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| +tables taken from the file are scaled in the same fashion that the default
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| +tables would be scaled for that quality setting. If -baseline appears, then
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| +the quantization values are constrained to the range 1-255.
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| +
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| +By default, cjpeg will use quantization table 0 for luminance components and
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| +table 1 for chrominance components. To override this choice, use the -qslots
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| +switch:
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| +
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| + -qslots N[,...] Select which quantization table to use for
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| + each color component.
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| +
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| +The -qslots switch specifies a quantization table number for each color
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| +component, in the order in which the components appear in the JPEG SOF marker.
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| +For example, to create a separate table for each of Y,Cb,Cr, you could
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| +provide a -qtables file that defines three quantization tables and say
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| +"-qslots 0,1,2". If -qslots gives fewer table numbers than there are color
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| +components, then the last table number is repeated as necessary.
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| +
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| +
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| +Sampling Factor Adjustment
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| +--------------------------
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| +
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| +By default, cjpeg uses 2:1 horizontal and vertical downsampling when
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| +compressing YCbCr data, and no downsampling for all other color spaces.
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| +You can override this default with the -sample switch:
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| +
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| + -sample HxV[,...] Set JPEG sampling factors for each color
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| + component.
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| +
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| +The -sample switch specifies the JPEG sampling factors for each color
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| +component, in the order in which they appear in the JPEG SOF marker.
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| +If you specify fewer HxV pairs than there are components, the remaining
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| +components are set to 1x1 sampling. For example, the default YCbCr setting
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| +is equivalent to "-sample 2x2,1x1,1x1", which can be abbreviated to
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| +"-sample 2x2".
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| +
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| +There are still some JPEG decoders in existence that support only 2x1
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| +sampling (also called 4:2:2 sampling). Compatibility with such decoders can
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| +be achieved by specifying "-sample 2x1". This is not recommended unless
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| +really necessary, since it increases file size and encoding/decoding time
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| +with very little quality gain.
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| +
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| +
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| +Multiple Scan / Progression Control
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| +-----------------------------------
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| +
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| +By default, cjpeg emits a single-scan sequential JPEG file. The
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| +-progressive switch generates a progressive JPEG file using a default series
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| +of progression parameters. You can create multiple-scan sequential JPEG
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| +files or progressive JPEG files with custom progression parameters by using
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| +the -scans switch:
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| +
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| + -scans file Use the scan sequence given in the named file.
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| +
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| +The specified file should be a text file containing a "scan script".
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| +The script specifies the contents and ordering of the scans to be emitted.
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| +Each entry in the script defines one scan. A scan definition specifies
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| +the components to be included in the scan, and for progressive JPEG it also
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| +specifies the progression parameters Ss,Se,Ah,Al for the scan. Scan
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| +definitions are separated by semicolons (';'). A semicolon after the last
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| +scan definition is optional.
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| +
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| +Each scan definition contains one to four component indexes, optionally
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| +followed by a colon (':') and the four progressive-JPEG parameters. The
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| +component indexes denote which color component(s) are to be transmitted in
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| +the scan. Components are numbered in the order in which they appear in the
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| +JPEG SOF marker, with the first component being numbered 0. (Note that these
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| +indexes are not the "component ID" codes assigned to the components, just
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| +positional indexes.)
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| +
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| +The progression parameters for each scan are:
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| + Ss Zigzag index of first coefficient included in scan
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| + Se Zigzag index of last coefficient included in scan
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| + Ah Zero for first scan of a coefficient, else Al of prior scan
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| + Al Successive approximation low bit position for scan
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| +If the progression parameters are omitted, the values 0,63,0,0 are used,
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| +producing a sequential JPEG file. cjpeg automatically determines whether
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| +the script represents a progressive or sequential file, by observing whether
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| +Ss and Se values other than 0 and 63 appear. (The -progressive switch is
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| +not needed to specify this; in fact, it is ignored when -scans appears.)
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| +The scan script must meet the JPEG restrictions on progression sequences.
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| +(cjpeg checks that the spec's requirements are obeyed.)
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| +
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| +Scan script files are free format, in that arbitrary whitespace can appear
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| +between numbers and around punctuation. Also, comments can be included: a
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| +comment starts with '#' and extends to the end of the line. For additional
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| +legibility, commas or dashes can be placed between values. (Actually, any
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| +single punctuation character other than ':' or ';' can be inserted.) For
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| +example, the following two scan definitions are equivalent:
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| + 0 1 2: 0 63 0 0;
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| + 0,1,2 : 0-63, 0,0 ;
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| +
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| +Here is an example of a scan script that generates a partially interleaved
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| +sequential JPEG file:
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| +
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| + 0; # Y only in first scan
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| + 1 2; # Cb and Cr in second scan
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| +
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| +Here is an example of a progressive scan script using only spectral selection
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| +(no successive approximation):
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| + # Interleaved DC scan for Y,Cb,Cr:
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| + 0,1,2: 0-0, 0, 0 ;
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| + # AC scans:
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| + 0: 1-2, 0, 0 ; # First two Y AC coefficients
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| + 0: 3-5, 0, 0 ; # Three more
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| + 1: 1-63, 0, 0 ; # All AC coefficients for Cb
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| + 2: 1-63, 0, 0 ; # All AC coefficients for Cr
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| + 0: 6-9, 0, 0 ; # More Y coefficients
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| + 0: 10-63, 0, 0 ; # Remaining Y coefficients
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| +
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| +Here is an example of a successive-approximation script. This is equivalent
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| +to the default script used by "cjpeg -progressive" for YCbCr images:
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| + # Initial DC scan for Y,Cb,Cr (lowest bit not sent)
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| + 0,1,2: 0-0, 0, 1 ;
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| + # First AC scan: send first 5 Y AC coefficients, minus 2 lowest bits:
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| + 0: 1-5, 0, 2 ;
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| + # Send all Cr,Cb AC coefficients, minus lowest bit:
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| + # (chroma data is usually too small to be worth subdividing further;
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| + # but note we send Cr first since eye is least sensitive to Cb)
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| + 2: 1-63, 0, 1 ;
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| + 1: 1-63, 0, 1 ;
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| + # Send remaining Y AC coefficients, minus 2 lowest bits:
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| + 0: 6-63, 0, 2 ;
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| + # Send next-to-lowest bit of all Y AC coefficients:
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| + 0: 1-63, 2, 1 ;
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| + # At this point we've sent all but the lowest bit of all coefficients.
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| + # Send lowest bit of DC coefficients
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| + 0,1,2: 0-0, 1, 0 ;
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| + # Send lowest bit of AC coefficients
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| + 2: 1-63, 1, 0 ;
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| + 1: 1-63, 1, 0 ;
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| + # Y AC lowest bit scan is last; it's usually the largest scan
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| + 0: 1-63, 1, 0 ;
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| +
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| +It may be worth pointing out that this script is tuned for quality settings
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| +of around 50 to 75. For lower quality settings, you'd probably want to use
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| +a script with fewer stages of successive approximation (otherwise the
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| +initial scans will be really bad). For higher quality settings, you might
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| +want to use more stages of successive approximation (so that the initial
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| +scans are not too large).
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