How to convert image to JPEG and write to TCP

[Rick N.]

I need to convert an image to JPEG and write it to a TCP port rather than to a file.  

I thought I could modify "Write JPEG File.vi", but it is password protected.

Thanks 

[tst]

You can save it to a file and then read the file as a string using the file functions.

[Rick N.]

Thanks

The delay is probably small, but I was hoping to avoid that. 

[Andrey_Dmitriev · Accepted solution]

If you using IMAQ Vision, then you can convert your image to compressed string:

Compressing an IMAQ Image Without Saving to Disk

Also this topic might be interesting for you: Decoding JPEG String 

Andrey.

[DFGray]

I have not tried this, but you could use ImageMagick from SysExec with the command causing a redirect to stderr, then pull the image as a string from stderr.  There is a host of things that could go wrong, but it is worth a shot.