image-png
PNG decoding and encoding library in pure Rust (by image-rs)
Symphonia
Pure Rust multimedia format demuxing, tag reading, and audio decoding library (by pdeljanov)
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342 | 2,102 | |
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8.4 | 7.9 | |
29 days ago | 25 days ago | |
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Apache License 2.0 | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
image-png
Posts with mentions or reviews of image-png.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-13.
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png crate gets an ultrafast compression mode, up to 4x faster decompression
Encoding images to PNG with the "fast" compression mode is now an order of magnitude faster. This is achieved using a custom Zlib compression implementation that leverages assumptions about the patterns in PNG data to get reasonable compression ratios at phenomenal speeds.
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Introducing zune-png: extremely fast PNG decoding in Rust
However, the latest release of the png crate - published less than a day ago - has an ultrafast compression mode that's slightly faster than the QOI reference implementation at a comparable compression ratio. So basically you get the properties of QOI in a much more widely used image format.
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Announcing zune-jpeg: Rust's fastest JPEG decoder
In other areas, miniz_oxide is faster than miniz, Symphonia is faster than ffmpeg on most codecs, the not-yet-announced zune-png beats both libpng and the more heavily optimized libspng, and the png crate is getting considerable improvements too and also beats libpng.
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Good example of high performance Rust project without unsafe code?
gif, png, zune-jpeg are on par with their C counterparts in terms of performance
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When soundness isn't worth it
Fun fact: libpng-sys was so difficult to create safe Rust wrapper for that people just wrote their own, 100% safe Rust PNG decoder: https://github.com/image-rs/image-png
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Anyone want to speed up a PNG decoder?
I didn't get time to finish the full spec for my attempt at a PNG decoder but it was working on common cases and was faster than image-png at the time https://users.rust-lang.org/t/new-rust-png-decoding-library/30952. I suspect it's not the case anymore since it changes it's deflate crate usage. Here is the perf issue on the image crate https://github.com/image-rs/image-png/issues/114. My code was way simpler than the one in the image crate so that might still be worth a read if you are interested.
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Wuffs PNG decoder faster than rust
The crate actually forbids unsafe. There's nothing necessarily wrong with unsafe code, but not having it provides a nice assurance. Plus if you are willing to tolerate (well audited) unsafe code then you may well be better off just using libpng.
Symphonia
Posts with mentions or reviews of Symphonia.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-28.
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Festival v1.0.0 - A music player
Symphonia for an amazing audio library
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Streaming audio from url
Are you trying to play audio from something like an internet radio station where the stream has an infinite length? The content length header is optional. It uses that to support seeking within the file. Symphonia, one of the underlying backends for Rodio, has an option to tell the decoder that the source is not seekable if the size of the file is not known. Unfortunately, Rodio currently hardcodes this setting to true https://github.com/RustAudio/rodio/blob/master/src/decoder/read_seek_source.rs#L19. I actually wrote this code a few years ago so I should know this, but I can't remember why exactly. I think there was no easy way to communicate this information to Rodio since the other backends don't have a setting like this. The other Rodio backends may handle this differently. There's a lot of great info in this discussion on the Symphonia repo about this use case which helped me with my implementation: https://github.com/pdeljanov/Symphonia/discussions/153
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Any libraries for Decoding AND Encoding to Opus audio codec?
Everything I can find on the internet seems to be abandoned. Opus-rs, Magnum, Magnum Opus, ect. Symphonia has been working on it for over 2 years, with work still ongoing. Heck, even FFMPEG seems to not have full support yet!. Is there any library that I have overlooked that provides this functionality?
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Announcing zune-jpeg: Rust's fastest JPEG decoder
In other areas, miniz_oxide is faster than miniz, Symphonia is faster than ffmpeg on most codecs, the not-yet-announced zune-png beats both libpng and the more heavily optimized libspng, and the png crate is getting considerable improvements too and also beats libpng.
- What would you rewrite in Rust?
- Symphonia – a pure Rust audio decoding and media demuxing library
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Symphonia v0.5.2: Audio decoding in safe Rust, now often faster than FFmpeg!
Symphonia is an audio decoder framework in 100% safe Rust supporting the most popular media formats (MP4/M4A, OGG, MKV/WebM, WAV) and audio codecs (AAC-LC, ADPCM, ALAC, FLAC, MP1/2/3, Vorbis, PCM).
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Introducing the Music Player: A High-Performance, Extensible Application for Digital Audio Playback
The Music Player is based on Rodio, which is a high-performance audio playback library for Rust, and Symphonia, which is a Rust library for working with music metadata and audio decoding. This allows the Music Player to provide high-quality audio playback and management.
- BWF WAV Reading/Processing/Writing
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How do I create a video merging tool in rust?
You can look at symphonia for a pure Rust solution.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing image-png and Symphonia you can also consider the following projects:
tiny-skia - A tiny Skia subset ported to Rust
rodio - Rust audio playback library
wuffs - Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely
swyh-rs - Stream What You Hear written in rust, inspired by SWYH.
png-decoder - A pure-Rust, no_std compatible PNG decoder
rust-id3 - A rust library for reading and writing ID3 metadata
thermite - Thermite SIMD: Melt your CPU
gitoxide - An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git
simd-adler32 - A SIMD-accelerated Adler-32 hash algorithm implementation.
not-yet-awesome-rust - A curated list of Rust code and resources that do NOT exist yet, but would be beneficial to the Rust community.
crates.io - The Rust package registry
FFmpeg - Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git