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BYTERUN CODEC
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This is a byterun codec for the codecs.libary, it should be in your
LIBS patch, preferably in the sys:classes/codecs drawer.
The byterun codecs performs standard byterun compression as defined by
Electronic Arts in 1985 and used as the standard way to compress IFF ILBM
images. This is a beta release, see known limitations.
KNOWN LIMITATIONS
=================
Encode: Accepts only BitMaps as source and only memory as destination
Handles multiple buffers.
Decode: Accepts only memory as source and only BitMap as destination
Does not handle multiple buffers.
The ByteRun codec does not handle multiple buffers for decoding.
Make sure that all data is supplied in a single buffer like in the
example.
It DOES support multiple buffers for encoding though.
A future version will accept multiple buffer also for encoding
and en/decodeing directly to IFFStreams.
HISTORY
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04/11/1999 0.5 First public (beta) release of the byterun.codec
TODO
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- Handle multiple buffers for decoding.
- Handle IFF Streams and other alternate sources/destinations
- Optional palette sorting/reorganization to gain better compression
Marcel de Wit
marcel@technolution.nl