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8
9Description:
10============
11
12WebP codec: library to encode and decode images in WebP format. This package
13contains the library that can be used in other programs to add WebP support,
14as well as the command line tools 'cwebp' and 'dwebp'.
15
16See http://developers.google.com/speed/webp
17
18Latest sources are available from http://www.webmproject.org/code/
19
20It is released under the same license as the WebM project.
21See http://www.webmproject.org/license/software/ or the
22file "COPYING" file for details. An additional intellectual
23property rights grant can be found in the file PATENTS.
24
25Building:
26=========
27
28Windows build:
29--------------
30
31By running:
32
33 nmake /f Makefile.vc CFG=release-static RTLIBCFG=static OBJDIR=output
34
35the directory output\release-static\(x64|x86)\bin will contain the tools
36cwebp.exe and dwebp.exe. The directory output\release-static\(x64|x86)\lib will
37contain the libwebp static library.
38The target architecture (x86/x64) is detected by Makefile.vc from the Visual
39Studio compiler (cl.exe) available in the system path.
40
41Unix build using makefile.unix:
42-------------------------------
43
44On platforms with GNU tools installed (gcc and make), running
45
46 make -f makefile.unix
47
48will build the binaries examples/cwebp and examples/dwebp, along
49with the static library src/libwebp.a. No system-wide installation
50is supplied, as this is a simple alternative to the full installation
51system based on the autoconf tools (see below).
52Please refer to makefile.unix for additional details and customizations.
53
54Using autoconf tools:
55---------------------
56When building from git sources, you will need to run autogen.sh to generate the
57configure script.
58
59./configure
60make
61make install
62
63should be all you need to have the following files
64
65/usr/local/include/webp/decode.h
66/usr/local/include/webp/encode.h
67/usr/local/include/webp/types.h
68/usr/local/lib/libwebp.*
69/usr/local/bin/cwebp
70/usr/local/bin/dwebp
71
72installed.
73
74Note: A decode-only library, libwebpdecoder, is available using the
75'--enable-libwebpdecoder' flag. The encode library is built separately and can
76be installed independently using a minor modification in the corresponding
77Makefile.am configure files (see comments there). See './configure --help' for
78more options.
79
80SWIG bindings:
81--------------
82
83To generate language bindings from swig/libwebp.i at least swig-1.3
84(http://www.swig.org) is required.
85
86Currently the following functions are mapped:
87Decode:
88 WebPGetDecoderVersion
89 WebPGetInfo
90 WebPDecodeRGBA
91 WebPDecodeARGB
92 WebPDecodeBGRA
93 WebPDecodeBGR
94 WebPDecodeRGB
95
96Encode:
97 WebPGetEncoderVersion
98 WebPEncodeRGBA
99 WebPEncodeBGRA
100 WebPEncodeRGB
101 WebPEncodeBGR
102 WebPEncodeLosslessRGBA
103 WebPEncodeLosslessBGRA
104 WebPEncodeLosslessRGB
105 WebPEncodeLosslessBGR
106
107See swig/README for more detailed build instructions.
108
109Java bindings:
110
111To build the swig-generated JNI wrapper code at least JDK-1.5 (or equivalent)
112is necessary for enum support. The output is intended to be a shared object /
113DLL that can be loaded via System.loadLibrary("webp_jni").
114
115Python bindings:
116
117To build the swig-generated Python extension code at least Python 2.6 is
118required. Python < 2.6 may build with some minor changes to libwebp.i or the
119generated code, but is untested.
120
121Encoding tool:
122==============
123
124The examples/ directory contains tools for encoding (cwebp) and
125decoding (dwebp) images.
126
127The easiest use should look like:
128 cwebp input.png -q 80 -o output.webp
129which will convert the input file to a WebP file using a quality factor of 80
130on a 0->100 scale (0 being the lowest quality, 100 being the best. Default
131value is 75).
132You might want to try the -lossless flag too, which will compress the source
133(in RGBA format) without any loss. The -q quality parameter will in this case
134control the amount of processing time spent trying to make the output file as
135small as possible.
136
137A longer list of options is available using the -longhelp command line flag:
138
139> cwebp -longhelp
140Usage:
141 cwebp [-preset <...>] [options] in_file [-o out_file]
142
143If input size (-s) for an image is not specified, it is assumed to be a PNG,
144JPEG or TIFF file.
145options:
146 -h / -help ............ short help
147 -H / -longhelp ........ long help
148 -q <float> ............. quality factor (0:small..100:big)
149 -alpha_q <int> ......... Transparency-compression quality (0..100).
150 -preset <string> ....... Preset setting, one of:
151 default, photo, picture,
152 drawing, icon, text
153 -preset must come first, as it overwrites other parameters.
154 -m <int> ............... compression method (0=fast, 6=slowest)
155 -segments <int> ........ number of segments to use (1..4)
156 -size <int> ............ Target size (in bytes)
157 -psnr <float> .......... Target PSNR (in dB. typically: 42)
158
159 -s <int> <int> ......... Input size (width x height) for YUV
160 -sns <int> ............. Spatial Noise Shaping (0:off, 100:max)
161 -f <int> ............... filter strength (0=off..100)
162 -sharpness <int> ....... filter sharpness (0:most .. 7:least sharp)
163 -strong ................ use strong filter instead of simple (default).
164 -nostrong .............. use simple filter instead of strong.
165 -partition_limit <int> . limit quality to fit the 512k limit on
166 the first partition (0=no degradation ... 100=full)
167 -pass <int> ............ analysis pass number (1..10)
168 -crop <x> <y> <w> <h> .. crop picture with the given rectangle
169 -resize <w> <h> ........ resize picture (after any cropping)
170 -mt .................... use multi-threading if available
171 -low_memory ............ reduce memory usage (slower encoding)
172 -map <int> ............. print map of extra info.
173 -print_psnr ............ prints averaged PSNR distortion.
174 -print_ssim ............ prints averaged SSIM distortion.
175 -print_lsim ............ prints local-similarity distortion.
176 -d <file.pgm> .......... dump the compressed output (PGM file).
177 -alpha_method <int> .... Transparency-compression method (0..1)
178 -alpha_filter <string> . predictive filtering for alpha plane.
179 One of: none, fast (default) or best.
180 -alpha_cleanup ......... Clean RGB values in transparent area.
181 -noalpha ............... discard any transparency information.
182 -lossless .............. Encode image losslessly.
183 -hint <string> ......... Specify image characteristics hint.
184 One of: photo, picture or graph
185
186 -metadata <string> ..... comma separated list of metadata to
187 copy from the input to the output if present.
188 Valid values: all, none (default), exif, icc, xmp
189
190 -short ................. condense printed message
191 -quiet ................. don't print anything.
192 -version ............... print version number and exit.
193 -noasm ................. disable all assembly optimizations.
194 -v ..................... verbose, e.g. print encoding/decoding times
195 -progress .............. report encoding progress
196
197Experimental Options:
198 -jpeg_like ............. Roughly match expected JPEG size.
199 -af .................... auto-adjust filter strength.
200 -pre <int> ............. pre-processing filter
201
202
203The main options you might want to try in order to further tune the
204visual quality are:
205 -preset
206 -sns
207 -f
208 -m
209
210Namely:
211 * 'preset' will set up a default encoding configuration targeting a
212 particular type of input. It should appear first in the list of options,
213 so that subsequent options can take effect on top of this preset.
214 Default value is 'default'.
215 * 'sns' will progressively turn on (when going from 0 to 100) some additional
216 visual optimizations (like: segmentation map re-enforcement). This option
217 will balance the bit allocation differently. It tries to take bits from the
218 "easy" parts of the picture and use them in the "difficult" ones instead.
219 Usually, raising the sns value (at fixed -q value) leads to larger files,
220 but with better quality.
221 Typical value is around '75'.
222 * 'f' option directly links to the filtering strength used by the codec's
223 in-loop processing. The higher the value, the smoother the
224 highly-compressed area will look. This is particularly useful when aiming
225 at very small files. Typical values are around 20-30. Note that using the
226 option -strong/-nostrong will change the type of filtering. Use "-f 0" to
227 turn filtering off.
228 * 'm' controls the trade-off between encoding speed and quality. Default is 4.
229 You can try -m 5 or -m 6 to explore more (time-consuming) encoding
230 possibilities. A lower value will result in faster encoding at the expense
231 of quality.
232
233Decoding tool:
234==============
235
236There is a decoding sample in examples/dwebp.c which will take
237a .webp file and decode it to a PNG image file (amongst other formats).
238This is simply to demonstrate the use of the API. You can verify the
239file test.webp decodes to exactly the same as test_ref.ppm by using:
240
241 cd examples
242 ./dwebp test.webp -ppm -o test.ppm
243 diff test.ppm test_ref.ppm
244
245The full list of options is available using -h:
246
247> dwebp -h
248Usage: dwebp in_file [options] [-o out_file]
249
250Decodes the WebP image file to PNG format [Default]
251Use following options to convert into alternate image formats:
252 -pam ......... save the raw RGBA samples as a color PAM
253 -ppm ......... save the raw RGB samples as a color PPM
254 -pgm ......... save the raw YUV samples as a grayscale PGM
255 file with IMC4 layout.
256 -yuv ......... save the raw YUV samples in flat layout.
257
258 Other options are:
259 -version .... print version number and exit.
260 -nofancy ..... don't use the fancy YUV420 upscaler.
261 -nofilter .... disable in-loop filtering.
262 -mt .......... use multi-threading
263 -crop <x> <y> <w> <h> ... crop output with the given rectangle
264 -scale <w> <h> .......... scale the output (*after* any cropping)
265 -alpha ....... only save the alpha plane.
266 -h ....... this help message.
267 -v ....... verbose (e.g. print encoding/decoding times)
268 -noasm ....... disable all assembly optimizations.
269
270Visualization tool:
271===================
272
273There's a little self-serve visualization tool called 'vwebp' under the
274examples/ directory. It uses OpenGL to open a simple drawing window and show
275a decoded WebP file. It's not yet integrated in the automake build system, but
276you can try to manually compile it using the recommendations below.
277
278Usage: vwebp in_file [options]
279
280Decodes the WebP image file and visualize it using OpenGL
281Options are:
282 -version .... print version number and exit.
283 -noicc ....... don't use the icc profile if present.
284 -nofancy ..... don't use the fancy YUV420 upscaler.
285 -nofilter .... disable in-loop filtering.
286 -mt .......... use multi-threading.
287 -info ........ print info.
288 -h ....... this help message.
289
290Keyboard shortcuts:
291 'c' ................ toggle use of color profile.
292 'i' ................ overlay file information.
293 'q' / 'Q' / ESC .... quit.
294
295Building:
296---------
297
298Prerequisites:
2991) OpenGL & OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT)
300 Linux:
301 $ sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev mesa-common-dev
302 Mac + XCode:
303 - These libraries should be available in the OpenGL / GLUT frameworks.
304 Windows:
305 http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/index.php#download
306
3072) (Optional) qcms (Quick Color Management System)
308 i. Download qcms from Mozilla / Chromium:
309 http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/0e7639e3bdfb/gfx/qcms
310 http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/qcms
311 ii. Build and archive the source files as libqcms.a / qcms.lib
312 iii. Update makefile.unix / Makefile.vc
313 a) Define WEBP_HAVE_QCMS
314 b) Update include / library paths to reference the qcms directory.
315
316Build using makefile.unix / Makefile.vc:
317$ make -f makefile.unix examples/vwebp
318> nmake /f Makefile.vc CFG=release-static \
319 ../obj/x64/release-static/bin/vwebp.exe
320
321Encoding API:
322=============
323
324The main encoding functions are available in the header src/webp/encode.h
325The ready-to-use ones are:
326size_t WebPEncodeRGB(const uint8_t* rgb, int width, int height, int stride,
327 float quality_factor, uint8_t** output);
328size_t WebPEncodeBGR(const uint8_t* bgr, int width, int height, int stride,
329 float quality_factor, uint8_t** output);
330size_t WebPEncodeRGBA(const uint8_t* rgba, int width, int height, int stride,
331 float quality_factor, uint8_t** output);
332size_t WebPEncodeBGRA(const uint8_t* bgra, int width, int height, int stride,
333 float quality_factor, uint8_t** output);
334
335They will convert raw RGB samples to a WebP data. The only control supplied
336is the quality factor.
337
338There are some variants for using the lossless format:
339
340size_t WebPEncodeLosslessRGB(const uint8_t* rgb, int width, int height,
341 int stride, uint8_t** output);
342size_t WebPEncodeLosslessBGR(const uint8_t* bgr, int width, int height,
343 int stride, uint8_t** output);
344size_t WebPEncodeLosslessRGBA(const uint8_t* rgba, int width, int height,
345 int stride, uint8_t** output);
346size_t WebPEncodeLosslessBGRA(const uint8_t* bgra, int width, int height,
347 int stride, uint8_t** output);
348
349Of course in this case, no quality factor is needed since the compression
350occurs without loss of the input values, at the expense of larger output sizes.
351
352Advanced encoding API:
353----------------------
354
355A more advanced API is based on the WebPConfig and WebPPicture structures.
356
357WebPConfig contains the encoding settings and is not tied to a particular
358picture.
359WebPPicture contains input data, on which some WebPConfig will be used for
360compression.
361The encoding flow looks like:
362
363-------------------------------------- BEGIN PSEUDO EXAMPLE
364
365#include <webp/encode.h>
366
367 // Setup a config, starting form a preset and tuning some additional
368 // parameters
369 WebPConfig config;
370 if (!WebPConfigPreset(&config, WEBP_PRESET_PHOTO, quality_factor))
371 return 0; // version error
372 }
373 // ... additional tuning
374 config.sns_strength = 90;
375 config.filter_sharpness = 6;
376 config_error = WebPValidateConfig(&config); // not mandatory, but useful
377
378 // Setup the input data
379 WebPPicture pic;
380 if (!WebPPictureInit(&pic)) {
381 return 0; // version error
382 }
383 pic.width = width;
384 pic.height = height;
385 // allocated picture of dimension width x height
386 if (!WebPPictureAllocate(&pic)) {
387 return 0; // memory error
388 }
389 // at this point, 'pic' has been initialized as a container,
390 // and can receive the Y/U/V samples.
391 // Alternatively, one could use ready-made import functions like
392 // WebPPictureImportRGB(), which will take care of memory allocation.
393 // In any case, past this point, one will have to call
394 // WebPPictureFree(&pic) to reclaim memory.
395
396 // Set up a byte-output write method. WebPMemoryWriter, for instance.
397 WebPMemoryWriter wrt;
398 pic.writer = MyFileWriter;
399 pic.custom_ptr = my_opaque_structure_to_make_MyFileWriter_work;
400 // initialize 'wrt' here...
401
402 // Compress!
403 int ok = WebPEncode(&config, &pic); // ok = 0 => error occurred!
404 WebPPictureFree(&pic); // must be called independently of the 'ok' result.
405
406 // output data should have been handled by the writer at that point.
407
408-------------------------------------- END PSEUDO EXAMPLE
409
410Decoding API:
411=============
412
413This is mainly just one function to call:
414
415#include "webp/decode.h"
416uint8_t* WebPDecodeRGB(const uint8_t* data, size_t data_size,
417 int* width, int* height);
418
419Please have a look at the file src/webp/decode.h for the details.
420There are variants for decoding in BGR/RGBA/ARGB/BGRA order, along with
421decoding to raw Y'CbCr samples. One can also decode the image directly into a
422pre-allocated buffer.
423
424To detect a WebP file and gather the picture's dimensions, the function:
425 int WebPGetInfo(const uint8_t* data, size_t data_size,
426 int* width, int* height);
427is supplied. No decoding is involved when using it.
428
429Incremental decoding API:
430=========================
431
432In the case when data is being progressively transmitted, pictures can still
433be incrementally decoded using a slightly more complicated API. Decoder state
434is stored into an instance of the WebPIDecoder object. This object can be
435created with the purpose of decoding either RGB or Y'CbCr samples.
436For instance:
437
438 WebPDecBuffer buffer;
439 WebPInitDecBuffer(&buffer);
440 buffer.colorspace = MODE_BGR;
441 ...
442 WebPIDecoder* idec = WebPINewDecoder(&buffer);
443
444As data is made progressively available, this incremental-decoder object
445can be used to decode the picture further. There are two (mutually exclusive)
446ways to pass freshly arrived data:
447
448either by appending the fresh bytes:
449
450 WebPIAppend(idec, fresh_data, size_of_fresh_data);
451
452or by just mentioning the new size of the transmitted data:
453
454 WebPIUpdate(idec, buffer, size_of_transmitted_buffer);
455
456Note that 'buffer' can be modified between each call to WebPIUpdate, in
457particular when the buffer is resized to accommodate larger data.
458
459These functions will return the decoding status: either VP8_STATUS_SUSPENDED if
460decoding is not finished yet or VP8_STATUS_OK when decoding is done. Any other
461status is an error condition.
462
463The 'idec' object must always be released (even upon an error condition) by
464calling: WebPDelete(idec).
465
466To retrieve partially decoded picture samples, one must use the corresponding
467method: WebPIDecGetRGB or WebPIDecGetYUVA.
468It will return the last displayable pixel row.
469
470Lastly, note that decoding can also be performed into a pre-allocated pixel
471buffer. This buffer must be passed when creating a WebPIDecoder, calling
472WebPINewRGB() or WebPINewYUVA().
473
474Please have a look at the src/webp/decode.h header for further details.
475
476Advanced Decoding API:
477======================
478
479WebP decoding supports an advanced API which provides on-the-fly cropping and
480rescaling, something of great usefulness on memory-constrained environments like
481mobile phones. Basically, the memory usage will scale with the output's size,
482not the input's, when one only needs a quick preview or a zoomed in portion of
483an otherwise too-large picture. Some CPU can be saved too, incidentally.
484
485-------------------------------------- BEGIN PSEUDO EXAMPLE
486 // A) Init a configuration object
487 WebPDecoderConfig config;
488 CHECK(WebPInitDecoderConfig(&config));
489
490 // B) optional: retrieve the bitstream's features.
491 CHECK(WebPGetFeatures(data, data_size, &config.input) == VP8_STATUS_OK);
492
493 // C) Adjust 'config' options, if needed
494 config.options.no_fancy_upsampling = 1;
495 config.options.use_scaling = 1;
496 config.options.scaled_width = scaledWidth();
497 config.options.scaled_height = scaledHeight();
498 // etc.
499
500 // D) Specify 'config' output options for specifying output colorspace.
501 // Optionally the external image decode buffer can also be specified.
502 config.output.colorspace = MODE_BGRA;
503 // Optionally, the config.output can be pointed to an external buffer as
504 // well for decoding the image. This externally supplied memory buffer
505 // should be big enough to store the decoded picture.
506 config.output.u.RGBA.rgba = (uint8_t*) memory_buffer;
507 config.output.u.RGBA.stride = scanline_stride;
508 config.output.u.RGBA.size = total_size_of_the_memory_buffer;
509 config.output.is_external_memory = 1;
510
511 // E) Decode the WebP image. There are two variants w.r.t decoding image.
512 // The first one (E.1) decodes the full image and the second one (E.2) is
513 // used to incrementally decode the image using small input buffers.
514 // Any one of these steps can be used to decode the WebP image.
515
516 // E.1) Decode full image.
517 CHECK(WebPDecode(data, data_size, &config) == VP8_STATUS_OK);
518
519 // E.2) Decode image incrementally.
520 WebPIDecoder* const idec = WebPIDecode(NULL, NULL, &config);
521 CHECK(idec != NULL);
522 while (bytes_remaining > 0) {
523 VP8StatusCode status = WebPIAppend(idec, input, bytes_read);
524 if (status == VP8_STATUS_OK || status == VP8_STATUS_SUSPENDED) {
525 bytes_remaining -= bytes_read;
526 } else {
527 break;
528 }
529 }
530 WebPIDelete(idec);
531
532 // F) Decoded image is now in config.output (and config.output.u.RGBA).
533 // It can be saved, displayed or otherwise processed.
534
535 // G) Reclaim memory allocated in config's object. It's safe to call
536 // this function even if the memory is external and wasn't allocated
537 // by WebPDecode().
538 WebPFreeDecBuffer(&config.output);
539
540-------------------------------------- END PSEUDO EXAMPLE
541
542Bugs:
543=====
544
545Please report all bugs to our issue tracker:
546 http://code.google.com/p/webp/issues
547Patches welcome! See this page to get started:
548 http://www.webmproject.org/code/contribute/submitting-patches/
549
550Discuss:
551========
552
553Email: webp-discuss@webmproject.org
554Web: http://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/group/webp-discuss
555