j2me - How to create image in jpg format? - java-me

My j2me application must take a photo, edit it a little and save it somewhere (or send to server).
Camera return me bytes of an image in jpg format, but after I create an Image object from it (using Image.createImage()), I could not pack it back to jpg.
Is there any jpeg encoders for j2me?
I found one written in j2se, but it uses j2se-specific classes.

This can be done! Even without any proprietary APIs or libraries. This can be achieved if your phone supports JSR 234 and has the ability to process JPEG files through it. You do this:
//Create MediaProcessor for raw Image
MediaProcessor mediaProc = GlobalManager.createMediaProcessor("image/raw");
//Get control over the format
ImageFormatControl formatControl = (ImageFormatControl)
mediaProc.getControl("javax.microedition.amms.control.ImageFormatControl");
//Set necessary format
formatControl.setFormat("image/jpeg");
Then you set input Image, output stream and start the media processor. Voila! You have saved your image in JPEG.

By the way, since JSR 234 is not supporting on many devices, I take Sun's JIMI image library and port JPEG-encoding part to j2me. It works fine and doesn't use too much memory.

It is purely implementation dependent, some devices allow you to create an Image object using a jpg file while others don't. However Sun's spec says that devices must support png, however others are at the discretion of the OEM manufacturers

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I am trying to understand how mpd file plays and i am referring to the following data set:
http://www-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/ftp/datasets/mmsys12/Valkaama/MPDs/Valkaama_1s_act_isoffmain_DIS_23009_1_v_2_1c2_2011_08_30.mpd
In mpd file format there is segment base consists of mp4 chunk and within it has chunk list with extension .m4s.I downloaded mpd file using :
http://www-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/ftp/datasets/mmsys12/Valkaama/valkaama_1s/valkaama_1s_50kbit/valkaama_50kbit_dash.mp4
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http://www-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/ftp/datasets/mmsys12/Valkaama/valkaama_1s/valkaama_1s_50kbit/valkaama_1s1.m4s
I tried to play both mp4 and m4s in vlc player but not able to play any of these two so i want to ask which of the chunk links in the mpd file forma i can be able to play standalone in vlc player.
Please correct me if any of my observations is wrong:
Regards
Mayank
MPD file is just a index of streams with various formats in order to adapt to your bandwidth, to get more information follow the links of the other answers here.
It's possible to download all streams and merge them into a single file, you could achieve this by using youtube-dl:
youtube-dl http://URL/TO/manifest.mpd
You can get more information in https://stackoverflow.com/a/39931712/1522342.
Also, VLC 3.0.0+ can play that kind of file from a url, just open VLC, use the shortcut CTRL+N, paste the url and enjoy.
A DASH player plays an MPD by selecting a Period, and in the Period one or more AdaptationSet, and then one Representation per AdaptationSet. For the chosen Representation, it downloads and passes the intialization segment and some media segments to the media engine. As indicated by others you can simulate that by concatenating (simply using caton Linux).
The MPEG-DASH standard requires that initialization segments (in your case the mp4 file) contain no data. This is because when switching the player might use several times the initialization segment. You can open it in a player but it does not contain any media.
For m4s files, they contain media data but they cannot be interpreted without the associated initialization segment.
you can download init segment (SegmentBase/Initialization#sourceURL) and all media segments (SegmentList/SegmentURL#media) and concatenate everything (e.g. with the copy command on windows). The result should be playable on VLC. This has to be done for audio and video separately. In the next step you can then use MP4Box or similar tools to mux audio and video.
Alternatively you can use www.dash-downloader.com to download everything in one step. The page will display some log explaining what it's doing. That might be helpfull.
(full disclosure: that's my website).
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Initialization segment: A sequence of bytes that contain all of the initialization information required to decode a sequence of media segments. This includes codec initialization data, Track ID mappings for multiplexed segments, and timestamp offsets (e.g. edit lists).
Media segment: A sequence of bytes that contain packetized & timestamped media data for a portion of the media timeline. Media segments are always associated with the most recently appended initialization segment.
Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/media-source/#init-segment

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