Showing jpeg file on LCD160

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Showing jpeg file on LCD160

Post by kamikaze » Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:29 pm

Hi. Is there any example on this topic? Also how to get the right format of jpeg file.. Right now I'm getting huge random text output instead of image.

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 1 import pyb
 2 from lcd160cr import LCD160CR, PORTRAIT_UPSIDEDOWN
 3 
 4 
 5 def test_ignitor(base_pin_name='Y12'):
 6     pin = pyb.Pin(base_pin_name)
 7     lcd = LCD160CR('X')
 8     lcd.set_orient(PORTRAIT_UPSIDEDOWN)
 9     lcd.set_text_color(lcd.rgb(255, 0, 0), lcd.rgb(0, 0, 0))
10     lcd.set_font(3)
11     lcd.erase()
12 
13     with open('/sd/frames/nuclear.jpg', 'r') as f:
14         nuclear = f.read()
15 
16     countdown = 15000
17     remaining = countdown
18     start = pyb.millis()
19 
20     while True:
21         remaining = countdown - pyb.elapsed_millis(start)
22         lcd.erase()
23         lcd.set_pos(0, 0)
24 
25         if remaining <= 0:
26             break
27 
28         lcd.write('{}'.format(remaining))
29 
30         pyb.delay(50)
31 
32     lcd.erase()
33     lcd.set_pos(0, 0)
34     lcd.jpeg(nuclear)

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Re: Showing jpeg file on LCD160

Post by pythoncoder » Sun Feb 26, 2017 7:46 am

I can't make this work either. As far as I can see the following should work but in practice it merely erases the screen.

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from lcd160cr import LCD160CR
buf = bytearray(10000)
with open('/sd/test.jpg', 'rb') as f:
    f.readinto(buf)
lcd = LCD160CR('Y')
lcd.set_pen(0, 0)
lcd.erase()
lcd.set_pos(0,0)
lcd.jpeg(buf)
The test file is available here http://hinch.me.uk/lcd/test.jpg. It's a 53x53 pixel jpeg created from a photo using Gimp.

I will raise an issue on GitHub.
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Re: Showing jpeg file on LCD160

Post by chuckbook » Sun Feb 26, 2017 12:40 pm

LCD160CR accepts raw jpeg encoded files up to a certain size (~65000 bytes). Only very basic parameters of the jpeg stream are evaluated. No EXIF decorators are accepted!
It is a good idea to strip the jpeg files used with something like:

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jpegtran test.jpg > test_stripped.jpg
For the example @pythoncoder provided , this results in a reduced file size of 1872 instead of 9590 bytes.

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Re: Showing jpeg file on LCD160

Post by kamikaze » Sun Feb 26, 2017 11:52 pm

chuckbook wrote:LCD160CR accepts raw jpeg encoded files up to a certain size (~65000 bytes). Only very basic parameters of the jpeg stream are evaluated. No EXIF decorators are accepted!
It is a good idea to strip the jpeg files used with something like:

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jpegtran test.jpg > test_stripped.jpg
For the example @pythoncoder provided , this results in a reduced file size of 1872 instead of 9590 bytes.
jpegtran may increase the size too. Here is the JPEG file saved from Gimp.

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$ ls -l frames/nuclear.jpg 
-rw-r--r-- 1 kamikaze kamikaze 23551 feb 25 22:16 frames/nuclear.jpg
Running:

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$ jpegtran frames/nuclear.jpg > frames/nuclear_m.jpg
Result:

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$ ls -l frames/nuclear_m.jpg 
-rw-r--r-- 1 kamikaze kamikaze 25556 feb 27 01:49 frames/nuclear_m.jpg

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Re: Showing jpeg file on LCD160

Post by pythoncoder » Mon Feb 27, 2017 8:13 am

I can confirm that stripping the EXIF data by the method suggested by @chuckbook fixed the problem.
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Re: Showing jpeg file on LCD160

Post by chuckbook » Mon Feb 27, 2017 5:19 pm

@kamikaze Good point! Don't forget '-o' option for jpegtran! With this option the test file from @pythoncoder will reduce to 1537 bytes.

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Re: Showing jpeg file on LCD160

Post by pythoncoder » Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:42 am

What is perhaps needed is a utility to run on a PC which takes as input a JPEG file and outputs Python sourcecode. The latter would declare a bytes instance containing the data and a function returning a memoryview of that instance. The Python file could then be frozen as bytecode. That way the JPEGS would consume almost zero RAM. The user would then do something like

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from lcd160cr import LCD160CR
import my_image
lcd = LCD160CR('Y')
lcd.set_pen(0, 0)
lcd.erase()
lcd.set_pos(0,0)
lcd.jpeg(my_image.img())
The same idea as already used for fonts: https://github.com/peterhinch/micropyth ... -to-py.git. This would mainly be of value if people were using large or multiple JPEGs.

If there's any interest I could do this.
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