how to compress the whole image on one run (libjpeg IJG)?

Hello,

since I loose the control of my application, as soon as I start the compression/decompression process of the incoming image frame (from the usb camera), I tried to implement the compression in another way than standard. Normally, there is a while loop, where the image is compressed row for row. Maybe this while loop stucks my programm. Therefore I tried to do the compression in one step by the following code:

Code:

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JSAMPROW row_pointer[1];        /* pointer to a single row */
        int row_stride;                /* physical row width in buffer */
        row_stride = m_compressInfo.image_width * 3;  /* JSAMPLEs per row in image_buffer */

        unsigned char* copyPointer =(unsigned char*) m_pcImageMemory;

        // how many rows per run should be compressed
        unsigned int howManyRows =  m_compressInfo.image_height / 48;

        // compress the raw data row by row
        while (m_compressInfo.next_scanline < m_compressInfo.image_height)
        {
                // define the next row of raw data
                row_pointer[0]  =  copyPointer;
                //jpeg_write_scanlines(&m_compressInfo, row_pointer, 1);
                //copyPointer += row_stride;
                jpeg_write_scanlines(&m_compressInfo, row_pointer, howManyRows);
                copyPointer += row_stride*howManyRows;
        }

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Even, if I reduce the number of rows to be compressed to 10 rows (image_height = 480 px), then there is an exception however. The exception occures in the function "null_convert()" within the file jccolor.c.

Could you tell me please, what is my mistake and how to compress more than 1 row in one step?

Thanks.

best regards,

vanselm

Is your question still valid?

Actually, I'm using another library now (libjpeg-turbo). But I'm still curious how could I do it with the jpeglib library. So if you know how to achieve it, you can post your solution here.