JPEG support

[Castler]

It looks like T-Engine only supports PNG (at least on Windows). Could JPEG support be added?

I found a very nice, absolutely huge piece of Chinese artwork that I wanted to show slowly scrolling across the background of the boot module's main menu, but a PNG version is simply too big. This is definitely just a wish list item (even a JPEG version may be too big, and there are always other things I can do for a background), but still, it'd be nice to have.

If JPEG support is added, then converting ToME's own backgrounds to JPEG should reduce the download size by a megabyte or two, for whatever that's worth.

[darkgod]

JPEG is a proprietary format sorry

As for what you wish to do, dont
GPUs have a maximum texture size and loading something much bigger than the screen is bound to fail on some sucky cards.
Best way IMO to handle is to split it in reasonable chunks (512x512 ? maybe 1024x1024) and display them side by side

[Castler]

Interesting. I didn't realize that there were concerns with JPEG.

Are there still issues with it? I tried looking around online, and it looks like all of the relevant patents expired a few years ago.

Thanks for the advice on splitting up the image. I'm new to GPU programming.

[darkgod]

It may well be the case Still I'd rather just keep png