Examples or tutorials of using libjpeg-turbo's TurboJPEG

Question

The instructions for libjpeg-turbo here describes the TurboJPEG API thus: \"This API wraps libjpeg-turbo and provides an easy-to-use interface for compressing and decompress

Answer 1

I ended up using below code as a working example for both JPEG encoding and decoding. Best example that I can find, it's self-contained that initializes a dummy image and output the encoded image to a local file.

Below code is NOT my own, credit goes to https://sourceforge.net/p/libjpeg-turbo/discussion/1086868/thread/e402d36f/#8722 . Posting it here again to help anyone finds it's difficult to get libjpeg turbo working.

#include "turbojpeg.h"
#include 
#include 
#include 

using namespace std;

int main(void)
{
    unsigned char *srcBuf; //passed in as a param containing pixel data in RGB pixel interleaved format
    tjhandle handle = tjInitCompress();

    if(handle == NULL)
    {
        const char *err = (const char *) tjGetErrorStr();
        cerr << "TJ Error: " << err << " UNABLE TO INIT TJ Compressor Object\n";
        return -1;
    }
    int jpegQual =92;
    int width = 128;
    int height = 128;
    int nbands = 3;
    int flags = 0;
    unsigned char* jpegBuf = NULL;
    int pitch = width * nbands;
    int pixelFormat = TJPF_GRAY;
    int jpegSubsamp = TJSAMP_GRAY;
    if(nbands == 3)
    {
        pixelFormat = TJPF_RGB;
        jpegSubsamp = TJSAMP_411;
    }
    unsigned long jpegSize = 0;

    srcBuf = new unsigned char[width * height * nbands];
    for(int j = 0; j < height; j++)
    {
        for(int i = 0; i < width; i++)
        {
            srcBuf[(j * width + i) * nbands + 0] = (i) % 256;
            srcBuf[(j * width + i) * nbands + 1] = (j) % 256;
            srcBuf[(j * width + i) * nbands + 2] = (j + i) % 256;
        }
    }

    int tj_stat = tjCompress2( handle, srcBuf, width, pitch, height,
        pixelFormat, &(jpegBuf), &jpegSize, jpegSubsamp, jpegQual, flags);
    if(tj_stat != 0)
    {
        const char *err = (const char *) tjGetErrorStr();
        cerr << "TurboJPEG Error: " << err << " UNABLE TO COMPRESS JPEG IMAGE\n";
        tjDestroy(handle);
        handle = NULL;
        return -1;
    }

    FILE *file = fopen("out.jpg", "wb");
    if (!file) {
        cerr << "Could not open JPEG file: " << strerror(errno);
        return -1;
    }
    if (fwrite(jpegBuf, jpegSize, 1, file) < 1) {
        cerr << "Could not write JPEG file: " << strerror(errno);
        return -1;
    }
    fclose(file);

    //write out the compress date to the image file
    //cleanup
    int tjstat = tjDestroy(handle); //should deallocate data buffer
    handle = 0;
}