Re: [Gnash-dev] [PATCH] Expand grayscale JPEG data to RGB

[strk]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:51:03AM -0600, Rob Savoye wrote:
> Bastiaan Jacques wrote:
> 
> > Well, that takes care of the "what", but not the "why". If I had to guess, 
> > I'd 
> > say that our image rendering engine wasn't designed for grayscale image 
> > data. 
> > If that were the case, I'd prefer to fix the engine rather than the 
> > conversion this patch adds.
> 
>   I agree with you 100%. This patch fixes this case, so I checked it in.
> But it doesn't do anything for the larger problem of supporting
> grayscale. I've never been a flash developer, so I have no idea if the
> usage of grayscale in Flash movies is common, or rare.

Flash is not designed to support the grayscale color model.
It supports RGB and RGBA values, so I think converting
grayscale JPGs is the way to go.

--strk;