[swfmill] JPEG 2000 Support

[Nick Sabalausky]

> On 1 February 2010 23:32, Clint G <clintg+swfmill at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm wondering if anyone has investigated the use of Jpeg 2000 in swfmill.
>> I'm creating swfs with strict filesize constraints and it would be nice 
>> to
>> import images that handle compression better. If someone had a starting
>> point for adding additional image formats, excellent. Otherwise, I'll 
>> just
>> dive into the code and hack away.
>
> Unless I am very much mistaken, there is no support for decoding JPEG
> 2000 in the Flash Player. Therefore there is not much point in adding
> support for this format to swfmill, as the resulting SWFs would be
> unusable. The best that could be done would be to convert JPEG 2000
> images to some other supported format, which would of course negate
> the compression advantages.
>

Is it possible to generate a bitmapped image at runtime in flash? If so, he 
could embed the JPEG 2000 data directly into his code and manually 
decompress it at runtime.