Is in LabVIEW a Data reduction of flattened data possible ?

[goetz wiedmann]

I have picture data from a CCD camera and want to transmit the data via TCP/IP. How can I reduce the amount of data. In Labview IMAQ only a JPEG file generator is included. How is it possible to generate for example a jpeg data stream. And on the other side to expand the compressed data stream

[sheising]

At least in the recent version of IMAQ a picture can be written to a PNG file, which has the advantage of beeing loss free and sometimes even smaller than JPG files.

Stephan Heising

[goetz wiedmann]

I don´t want to write a file, I want to create a data reduced Labview Array or flattened string. So that no file I/O is necessary.
I want to aquire the picture then reduce picture data amount and send the reduced data via tcpip to another labview client. The problem is not the file creation (Imaq can do this [CIN which generates directly the files], the problem is to reduce the data in Labview without creating files