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I have some image-files stored into one file (some kind of archive). That file looks like this:

Well, it's separated into two segments - header and data-segment. Header (green) contains various info, such as album name, location, date/time, description, number of photos in the album, etc. Data segment (blue & orange) has simple structure and it contains N x JPEG photo. I can extract that "imagedata" segment into new TMemoryStream object and now I want to show it using TImage.

I can use SaveAsFile method of TMemoryStream, set some temporary file-name, load that file from TImage, and later, remove temporary file. That works, but I'm wondering is there any way to send that stream into TImage w/out using temp. files.

Of course, I can write code to extract all those files on hard disk but problem is that I have a lot of archives like this one and just want to write application to read those "albums" instead of having 20,000+ photos on my hard drive.

In short, all I want is to make following procedure works (w/out using temp. files)

procedure ShowImageFromStream(data: TStream; img: TImage);
begin
Thanks in advance.
I'm not sure if that's what you are looking for, but this code should load the JPEG file from stream into the given TImage component:
  JPEG;
procedure ShowImageFromStream(AImage: TImage; AData: TStream);
  JPEGImage: TJPEGImage;
begin
  AData.Position := 0;
  JPEGImage := TJPEGImage.Create;
    JPEGImage.LoadFromStream(AData);
    AImage.Picture.Assign(JPEGImage);
  finally
    JPEGImage.Free;
                +1 slightly diff var names but just the same as I was typing in, I need to learn to type quicker.
– Dampsquid
                Apr 17, 2012 at 22:54
                MY GOD, even I used TJPEGImage before, I totally missed LoadFromStream method!? Thanks a lot, that's it.
– Wh1T3h4Ck5
                Apr 17, 2012 at 23:06
                When tried it but I load the date from memory stream and I get this error: JPEG error #53
– bob_saginowski
                Aug 21, 2014 at 13:45
                @mitko.berbatov, there is a post about this error. Either the file is corrupted or the library cannot decompress it.
– TLama
                Aug 21, 2014 at 13:59
        
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