JPEG 2000 encoder ignoring "-define jp2:rate=x,x,..."

[njdoyle]

I'm trying to encode images with JPEG 2000. I'm using "-define jp2:rate=x,x,..." to set quality levels.

This options seems to be ignored by ImageMagick.

I would expect these two commands to produce similar or identical results:

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$ opj_compress -r 50 -i example.png -o example.opj.jp2
$ convert example.png -define jp2:rate=50 example.im.jp2

opj_compress produces JPEG 2000 images with a reasonable amount of compression and a file size I would expect for an image of that compression/quality.
ImageMagick produces what seems to be a losslessly compressed image that has a relatively high file size.

I am using ImageMagick 6.8.9-9 and OpenJPEG 2.1.0.

[magick]

Set the rate to 115. As the rate gets larger, the higher the compression. Or use something like -quality 25, for example.

[njdoyle]

Set the rate to 115. As the rate gets larger, the higher the compression. Or use something like -quality 25, for example.

I have used a number of different values for rate, including 115 and higher. The option is entirely ignored and a lossless image is always output.

[magick]

We're clueless why it fails for you. We're using OpenJPEG 2.1.0 also and as we change the rate, the size of the output image changes as expected.

[verve]

This continues to be a bug, even with OpenJPEG 2.1.1, on my Mac OS X box, where I installed imagemagick by installing vips just yesterday with

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brew install vips --with-cfitsio --with-imagemagick --with-openexr --with-openslide --with-webp

as described at http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.p ... ld_on_OS_X . You can see that http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3067 ... -file-size pretty much describes the same bug. Any new insights into this?

Thanks.

[magick]

These commands:

• convert logo: -define jp2:rate=10 10.jp2
  convert logo: -define jp2:rate=20 20.jp2
  convert logo: -define jp2:rate=40 40.jp2
  convert logo: -define jp2:rate=80 80.jp2

returns these file sizes suggesting compression is being properly applied, the first number is the size in bytes:

• 92176 Aug 8 16:21 10.jp2
  46093 Aug 8 16:21 20.jp2
  23049 Aug 8 16:21 40.jp2
  11516 Aug 8 16:21 80.jp2

What do you get on your system?