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22 years ago

JPEG on NIOS II

Does anyone know how to display JPEGs on the Lancelot VGA daughter card on a NIOS II system? Is there a freely available jpeg component? Could one use the Linux jpeg libraries? Any ideas? I wa...
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22 years ago

use IJG jpeglib library (www.ijg.org), most software is based around this decoder. It's highly portable in that it literally takes a few minutes to port to a new target (should run straight out of the box!) and it's free - only rule is you have to put a small copyright notice somewhere (i.e documentation). In the past I've used it on various consoles, Playstation 1 & dreamcast without any effort.

Adrian