Re: CALL for DISCUSSION: eXIf 20170115 -- length

Willem van Schaik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
That EOI marker, simply helped me a lot debugging my EXIF profiles in 
JPEG files. On purpose I didn't say "it ends" but included that "often". 
In the pictures I analyzed (from different cameras) it is there.

Willem


On 2017-01-16 23:37, John Bowler wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:04 PM, Willem van Schaik <[email protected]> wrote:
>> and maybe we should add:
>>
>>    It will often end with 0xFFD9 (there could be a padding byte
>>    0x00) which is the EXIF EOI (End of Image) marker, because
>>    many EXIF profiles end with a thumbnail image.
>
> So far as I know there is no reason for the thumbnail to be at the end
> even though the CIPA document shows it there and there is no reason
> for the thumbnail to be a JPEG stream.  Indeed if the main image is
> uncompressed the thumbnail cannot be compressed while if the main
> image is compressed an uncompressed thumbnail may be used.
>
> See the discussion on page 24 of CIPA 2016.
>


-- 
Willem van Schaik
[email protected]

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