JPEG quality loss

[k0m0r]

Hi.
I've been trying to solve it myself, but I give up.
I need to convert BufferedImage to byte[]. I'm using
com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriter and everything works
perfect, expect the writer keeps compressing all images, and the
quality of output is really poor
My code is:


ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ImageOutputStream imgOut = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(out);

Iterator writerIter = ImageIO.getImageWritersByFormatName("jpg");
ImageWriter writer = (ImageWriter) writerIter.next();
// now the writer is com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriter

writer.setOutput(imgOut);
writer.prepareWriteSequence(null);

for(...) {
BufferedImage image = (...)
IIOImage iioImage = new IIOImage(image, null, null);

writer.write(iioImage);
out.reset();
(...) // saving the byte array somewhere
}

writer.endWriteSequence();
imgOut.flush();
writer.dispose();
imgOut.close();


Please help - how can I set the JPEG compression value to the highest
quality?
Or maybe 95-97% of the original quality?

Thanx a lot in advance,

k0m0r

 

[Andrew Thompson]

Hi.
I've been trying to solve it myself, but I give up.

Have you given up prior to consulting the documentation?

I need to convert BufferedImage to byte[]. I'm using
com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriter and everything works
perfect, expect the writer keeps compressing all images, and the
quality of output is really poor ....
writer.write(iioImage);

A quick perusal of that documentation suggests..
<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs...geio.IIOImage, javax.imageio.ImageWriteParam)>
...combined with..
<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs...eWriteParam.html#setCompressionQuality(float)>
...should do what you want.

Andrew T.

 

[k0m0r]

..combined with..
<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs...eWriteParam.html#setCompressionQuality(float)>
..should do what you want.

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Compression not supported

How come com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriter does not support
compression, while I can CLEARLY see that the quality is being lost?!
Have you encountered this problem?

 

[pranshu]

I had a slightly similar problem - which was loss of quality while
resizing the image.
In the end I was forced to use ImageMagick to do the resizing
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
http://www.yeo.id.au/jmagick/

Maybe you can experiment with writing out a BMP - see if the quality of
that is acceptable and then use a specialist imaging tool like
imagemagick to do the compression / conversion.

BTW are you writing a drawing application? Otherwise you should have
the source image - and it might be easier to manipulate the source
image file directly.

Regards
Pranshu

 

[Andrew Thompson]

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Compression not supported

Which brings me back to the question, "did you RTFM?".

<sscce>
import javax.imageio.ImageWriteParam;
import javax.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriteParam;
import java.util.Locale;

public class WriteImage {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Locale locale = new Locale("en");
ImageWriteParam iwp1 = new ImageWriteParam(locale);
System.out.println(iwp1.canWriteCompressed());
JPEGImageWriteParam iwp2 = new JPEGImageWriteParam(locale);
System.out.println(iwp2.canWriteCompressed());
}
}
</sscce>

Andrew T.