Efika 5200B Project Reggae on Efika in category Multimedia proposed by Grzegorz Kraszewski on 21st February 2006 (accepted on 20th March 2006) [View Full Project]

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	Workarounds - the essence of media decoders posted by Grzegorz Kraszewski on 29th January 2007 I've been given two problematic BMP pictures yesterday. They were not shown by RView, a simple Reggae based image viewer. The first one is RLE compressed, I plan to implement RLE decompressor this week. The second one however has one bug (structure size of BMP bitmap header set to 0), and one unexpected feature. In spite it is 8-bit, it has only 61 palette entries. Workaround for the first thing is simple, if structure size is 0, I assume standard 40 bytes. The second one was a bit more difficult. I've decided to read only number of used colors from palette (unless some stupid saver has set it to 0, I assume full palette then), and then just skip to pixel data. Implementing those workarounds I've made a lot of internal fixes, even one in NetPBM recognition routine (How it is related to BMP? Don't ask me...).