Flex 4, Flashbuilder And Jpeg Encoders

[Necuima 18]

Hi Larry,

 

I thought that I'd post this in case anyone else wants to try JPEG encoders within the Flex 4 framework (I have been using FlashBuilder 4.6).

 

In a nutshell, I found 3 encoders that I managed to get working:

 

1. The standard Actionscript 3 encoder

2. A vector-based version of the standard encoder by Thibault Imbert (http://www.bytearray.org/?p=775) (though apparently that site was hacked yesterday).

3. An Alchemy encoder from Jens Kraus (http://www.websector...-using-alchemy/)

 

In my environment, the Alchemy encoder was the best by far, though not quite as good as PHP/GD in image quality, but not too far behind.

 

Again, in my environment, the Alchemy encoder is also very fast, about 5 times as fast as the standard encoder, and 4 times as fast as Thibault's, for similar image sizes.

 

For what it's worth!

 

Cheers from Oz.

[Larry 426]

Thanks for sharing that. I'm glad you were able to find something that works for you, which doesn't surprise me.