libjpeg
Sign in to savelibjpeg is a free library with functions for handling the JPEG image data format. It implements a JPEG codec (encoding and decoding) alongside various utilities for handling JPEG data. It is written in C and distributed as free software together with its source code under the terms of a custom permissive (BSD-like) free software license, which demands attribution. The original variant is maintained and published by the Independent JPEG Group (IJG). Meanwhile, there are several forks with additional features.
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Within Vinony's link graph, libjpeg is referenced by 36 other articles, and connects out to Mozilla, JPEG-LS and Facebook.
Vinony files it under C (programming language) libraries, Free software programmed in C and Graphics libraries.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Jpegli
- Software.logo
- 120px|MozJPEG
- Software.author
- Tom Lane
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating_system
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- library
- Software.license
- Custom BSD-like (free software)
- Software.developer
- Software.screenshot
- cjpeg-screenshot.png
- Software.caption
- MozJPEG tries several partitionings of the spectrum of DCT coefficients
- Software.latest_release_version
- 4.1.5
- Software.latest release version
- 0.11.0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- software library
- Official website
- www.ijg.org
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- Commons category
- Libjpeg
- programmed in
- C
- software version identifier
- 10
- inception
- 1991-10-07
- implementation of
- JPEG File Interchange Format
- operating system
- cross-platform
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Utilities
- jpegtran
- History
- libjpeg-turbo and descendants
- Change in IJG leadership
- Versions
- Forks
- libjpeg-turbo
- MozJPEG
- Jpegli
- ISO libjpeg
- See also
- References
- External links
libjpeg is a free library with functions for handling the JPEG image data format. It implements a JPEG codec (encoding and decoding) alongside various utilities for handling JPEG data. It is written in C and distributed as free software together with its source code under the terms of a custom permissive (BSD-like) free software license, which demands attribution. The original variant is maintained and published by the Independent JPEG Group (IJG). Meanwhile, there are several forks with additional features.
JPEG JFIF images are widely used on the Web. The amount of compression can be adjusted to achieve the desired trade-off between file size and visual quality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “libjpeg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.