j2k.js

This is a port of OpenJPEG, an open-source JPEG2000 codec, to JavaScript using Emscripten.

Why? JPEG2000 is useful sometimes, and web browsers don't have native support for it, so having a pure JS decoder is a nice option to have.

Usage

Grab openjpeg.js which is an optimized and minified build. Then you simply call

    openjpeg(data, suffix)

with the first argument being an array of values in 0-255 (representing a file in binary format), and the second argument being the suffix of the file (there is no autodetection of the file type in OpenJPEG, and whether it is a .jp2 or .j2k does actually matter it turns out). The function returns a a JSON object of form

    {
      width: the width
      height: the height
      data: the pixel data (in 24-bit "Planar RGB" format)
    }

See test.js for a concrete example (it is called by test.py).

Note: j2k.js by default requires typed arrays. You can also build it without typed arrays, but it will be much slower (see below).

Building

(You don't normally need to do this.)

Do

    python make.py

Note: Looks like you need |make clean| in build/ as incremental builds do not always link.

You can modify the settings in make.py. For example, changing USE_TYPED_ARRAYS to 0 will make it generate a build without typed arrays (which as mentioned above, will be slower but will work if the environment lacks typed arrays).

Testing

Run

    python test.py openjpeg.js

The generated files are written to generated.raw. You can view them in GIMP by opening them as RAW (select "all files", then "select file type" as raw, and pick "generated.raw"). You should select "Planar RGB" as the format, and enter the right width and height.

You should also make sure that examples/simple.html and examples/worker.html both work properly in a web browser.