2010.05.11 19:19 "Re: [Tiff] Tiff with varying bit depths", by Thomas Richter

The values make perfect sense to me.

The image is 64x64 pixels, each pixel is 16 bits, so the strip size is 64*64*2 = 8192 bytes. Pixel data is split into three samples: 5, 6, and 5 bits for R, G and B.

Thomas,

Can you debug TIFFOpen() it and see which check fails? I expect that if you patch it, you should be able to use TIFFReadRawStrip() or maybe even TIFFReadEncodedStrip().

The code fails in TIFFFetchPerSampleShorts, called by TIFFReadDirectory (expected), called by TIFFClientOpen (probably unexpected). Thus libTIFF already parses the first directory from TIFFOpen(), which is documented behavior.

I also see from "man TIFFOpen" that the "h" flag prevents that, thus I could at least open the file, but then do what? If I cannot read the directory without falling over, how do I get at the bits per sample tag (which I still need, in one way or another).

I'm currently using ReadEncodedStripe() - or - ReadEncodedTile(), depending on whether the image is tiled or striped; would be great if I would be able to continue using that, but I nevertheless need the directory content.

Is there a way to patch up the directory *after* TIFFOpen(), but before TIFFReadDirectory() sees the file? For example, getting the bits per sample *manually* (without running into TIFFReadDirectory()), then patching that and the number of samples over, then calling TIFFReadDirectory(), and then fixing the mess again when reading the data?

So long,

        Thomas