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Summary

The gamut-jpeg encoder can now write 4:4:0 YCbCr JPEGs: luma sampling factors 1×2, chroma 1×1, so Cb/Cr are halved vertically only. This lets gamut-jpeg join encoder sweeps that cover 4:4:4 / 4:2:2 / 4:4:0 / 4:2:0, the modes libjpeg-turbo offers. T.81 Table B.2 allows any factor from 1 to 4. This grid uses four data units per MCU, within the §B.2.3 limit of ten. The encoder's scan, progressive and downsample paths already handled general H/V factors, so the codec change is only the mapping.

Changed paths:

• crates/gamut-jpeg/src/encoder.rs: new ChromaSubsampling::Ycbcr440 variant, appended last, mapped to luma (1, 2). Its doc cites T.81 B.2.2/B.2.3 and T.871 §9 NOTE 3 (JFIF discourages forms other than 4:2:0).
• crates/gamut-jpeg/src/backend.rs: JpegStreamInfo::subsampling() now names a (1,2),(1,1),(1,1) frame Some(Ycbcr440); it used to return None. Its unit test asserts the new arm and keeps (2,4) as the example of an unnamed grid.
• crates/gamut-jpeg/src/lib.rs, README.md, STATUS.md: list 4:4:0 among the encoder's subsampling modes. STATUS records the two new oracle gates and their measured figures, and the decode battery now includes 4:4:0.
• crates/gamut-jpeg/tests/oracle.rs:
  • Mode::C440 joins Mode::ALL, so 4:4:0 now runs through every encode and decode battery: the libjpeg-turbo decode battery, progressive and optimized-table exactness, the size ratio against libjpeg-turbo optimize_coding, and decode parity on libjpeg-turbo's 4:4:0 streams.
  • It also joins encode_cross_parity_gamut_vs_libjpeg.
  • Two new tests: encode_sampling_factors_are_what_libjpeg_turbo_reads and encode_fidelity_tracks_libjpeg_turbo_own_encode.
• crates/gamut-jpeg/tests/encode.rs, tests/progressive.rs: 4:4:0 joins the dimension/restart battery and the progressive==baseline battery.
• tooling/libjpeg-oracle/src/shim.c, src/lib.rs:
  • New sampling_factors(), a header-only read of each component's (Hi, Vi) by libjpeg-turbo's own parser, so the test does not rely on gamut's marker parser.
  • New Subsampling::S440.
  • New self-test sampling_factors_report_each_mode_and_gray.
• crates/gamut-cli/src/commands/convert.rs, crates/gamut-cli/README.md: --jpeg-subsampling 440, with an inline test pinning all four values and the refusal of an unknown one.

How the acceptance criteria are met

• Decodes through libjpeg-turbo with the expected sampling factors. encode_sampling_factors_are_what_libjpeg_turbo_reads reads gamut's baseline and progressive streams with libjpeg-turbo's jpeg_read_header. It asserts [(1,2),(1,1),(1,1)] for 4:4:0 and the right grid for every other mode. encode_battery_decoded_by_libjpeg_turbo asserts libjpeg-turbo decodes every 4:4:0 stream at the right geometry across dims × q{50,75,90} × restart{0,3}.

• Same tolerance against libjpeg-turbo's own encode at equal quality as the existing modes. encode_fidelity_tracks_libjpeg_turbo_own_encode checks every colour mode against one bound. libjpeg-turbo decodes gamut's stream and its own stream of the same source at the same quality. gamut's PSNR may trail libjpeg-turbo's by at most 2 dB.

  Mode	Measured worst gap
  4:4:4	0.62 dB
  4:2:2	1.33 dB (worst overall)
  4:2:0	0.61 dB
  4:4:0	0.41 dB

  With optimize_coding, the existing size gate puts 4:4:0 at a 0.961–0.970 byte ratio against libjpeg-turbo, under the shared 1.15 bound.

Adding 4:4:0 to the existing batteries moved none of their measured worst cases: 30.11 dB, 34.18 dB, 22.90 dB, max-diff 11/5, size ratio 1.083. In cross parity, 4:4:0's worst is 38.23 dB against the 35.22 dB 4:2:0 figure the bound cites. (Superseded at d37a1048: after merging #1016's libjpeg-turbo fancy upsampling from master, cross parity is exact, max-diff 0, in every mode including 4:4:0; see decision 8.)

Validation

GitHub CI workflows are disabled on this repository, so no CI ran. Every result below is a local run at cdc5023b (rebased on origin/master 1f421090) unless noted.

• mise run fmt-check: pass
• mise run fmt-tooling-check: pass
• mise run lint (cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings): pass
• cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings in tooling/libjpeg-oracle: pass
• cargo test -p gamut-jpeg -p gamut -p gamut-cli -p gamut-ffi -p gamut-wasm --all-features: pass, 515 tests across 26 binaries. These are gamut-jpeg plus every crate that depends on it, directly or transitively, per cargo metadata. This replaces a workspace-wide mise run test, which was not run.
• cargo test in tooling/libjpeg-oracle: pass, 9 tests (ran on the pre-rebase tree, same oracle sources)
• mise run mutants-diff (tooling/mutants/run.sh --diff, memory-capped): 7 mutants, 6 caught, 1 unviable, 0 missed, exit 0.
  • Caught: the four luma_factors whole-body replacements, JpegStreamInfo::subsampling → None, and the deleted (1, 2) arm.
  • Unviable: subsampling → Some(Default::default()).
  • gamut-cli and tooling/ are excluded from mutation by config.
• cargo llvm-cov -p gamut-jpeg --all-features --ignore-filename-regex '(crates/gamut-(cli|wasm|ffi|jxl-sys)|tooling)/' --fail-under-lines 80: pass, 98.22% lines overall. encoder.rs 99.48% lines, backend.rs 98.03%.
• mise run check-tests, mise run check-commits, mise run check-agents-edges: pass

Coverage gaps

• The (1, 2) literal inside luma_factors cannot be mutated, a blind spot AGENTS.md describes. It is held by the oracle sampling-factor test and the batteries, not by the mutation gate.
• No test runs restart intervals inside a progressive 4:4:0 stream. Baseline 4:4:0 restarts are covered in tests/encode.rs, and the progressive restart path is shared with 4:2:0.
• No end-to-end CLI encode at 440: the inline test checks only the flag-to-codec mapping, and gamut-cli is outside coverage and mutation.
• The shim's truncation when a frame has more components than the buffer holds (n > cap) is unreachable, because libjpeg rejects more than 10 components and the cap is 10.
• No test forwards Ycbcr440 to a pushed encode backend through JpegEncodeRequest::subsampling(). The value is passed through unchanged, and tests/backends.rs covers 4:2:0 and 4:2:2.
• The fidelity gate is weak for chroma regressions. encode_fidelity_tracks_libjpeg_turbo_own_encode uses the smooth gradient only, at baseline, and its 2 dB bound is about 5× the 0.41 dB 4:4:0 gap. It meets the issue's "same tolerance as existing modes" wording, but would not see a 4:4:0-specific chroma loss under about 1.5 dB. What pins the 4:4:0 grid itself is the sampling-factor test plus the exactness batteries.

Risks and rollout

• JpegStreamInfo::subsampling() changes behaviour for 4:4:0 frames: it returns Some(Ycbcr440) where it returned None. A pushed decode backend that read None as "exotic, consult sampling_factors()" now gets the named grid. ChromaSubsampling is #[non_exhaustive], so adding a variant is not a SemVer break, and the feat commit body records the change.
• Not updated: the gamut-jpeg entry in AGENTS.md (line 73) still lists the encoder as "gray + YCbCr 4:4:4/4:2:2/4:2:0". That file is the agent instructions file, which this run is not permitted to edit, so the one-line fix is left for a maintainer.

Review notes

Two independent read-only reviews ran: one before the commits and one at cdc5023b. Neither found a Critical, High or Medium defect. The first review's Low items were fixed before the push: a stale shim doc, stale battery comments, 4:4:0 added to cross parity, a doc reflow, an unsourced jpegli claim replaced by TJSAMP_440, and an append-only doc sentence the type did not enforce. Remaining review questions and their answers:

• Were the measured-worst comments re-checked once 4:4:0 joined Mode::ALL? Yes. Every battery was re-measured with 4:4:0 included, and none of the quoted worst cases moved: 30.11 / 34.18 / 22.90 dB, max-diff 11 / 5, size ratio 1.083. Only the encode battery's comment and cross parity (where 4:4:0's figure is added) were annotated; the other comments stay true as written.
• The decode batteries now also run gamut's decoder on libjpeg-turbo 4:4:0 streams, beyond this encode issue. That is a side effect of sharing Mode::ALL. It costs no code, and STATUS records it.
• Comments over 100 columns (tests/oracle.rs, shim.c): cosmetic, and rustfmt passes them. Left as is.

Decisions taken

These were decided without a human because the maintainer delegated public-API shape choices. Each entry gives the edit that reverses it.

1. Variant name and position. Chose ChromaSubsampling::Ycbcr440, appended after Ycbcr420. It follows the existing J:a:b naming. libjpeg-turbo calls the same grid TJSAMP_440, which the doc cites. Rejected Ycbcr422Vertical and similar, because they break the naming scheme. To reverse: rename the variant.

2. No repr or explicit discriminants added. The enum had neither before this change, and no C surface consumes it: gamut-ffi's JPEG module exposes only backend registries. Adding a repr is an ABI-shape change outside gamut-jpeg: 4:4:0 chroma subsampling on encode #1014. The first review also flagged a doc sentence promising "append-only" variants that the type does not enforce, and that sentence was removed. To reverse: add #[repr(u8)] with Ycbcr444 = 0 … Ycbcr440 = 3 in a separate change.

3. JpegStreamInfo::subsampling() names the new grid. The alternative, keeping None for (1,2), would make the encoder emit a grid that its own stream-info accessor calls unnamed. To reverse: delete the (1, 2) arm in backend.rs.

4. CLI value included. --jpeg-subsampling 440 is a small, direct consumer of the new variant, and gamut-cli is the sandbox that exercises implemented features. It is in its own commit (feat(gamut-cli)) so it can be dropped without touching the codec. To reverse: revert that commit.

5. Fidelity tolerance as one PSNR-gap bound over every colour mode. The issue asks for "the same tolerance … that the existing modes meet", and no existing test compared gamut against libjpeg-turbo's own encode by pixels; only by size, under optimize_coding. The new test applies one 2 dB bound to all four modes, so 4:4:0 meets the same bar 4:4:4, 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 do, measured above. To reverse: change the bound in encode_fidelity_tracks_libjpeg_turbo_own_encode.

6. Oracle gains a sampling-factor reader. Gamut's own info() could have checked the factors, but that is gamut checking itself. The issue says "decodes through libjpeg-turbo with the expected sampling factors", so the factors are read by libjpeg-turbo's header parser. To reverse: drop sampling_factors and assert with gamut_jpeg::info.

7. AGENTS.md corrected in this pull request rather than filed. The repository's doc-authority rule asks that a document contradicting its crate be corrected in the same change that notices it, or filed. Correcting it is a one-token edit, so AGENTS.md line 73 now lists the encoder as "gray + YCbCr 4:4:4/4:2:2/4:2:0/4:4:0" (commit af70b0da). This supersedes the Risks bullet above that leaves the line for a maintainer. To reverse: revert that commit and file an issue instead.

8. Merge conflict with master (gamut-jpeg, gamut-webp, gamut-avif: decoders upsample chroma by sample replication, diverging from reference decoders #1016) resolved toward master's exact-parity assertions. gamut-jpeg, gamut-webp, gamut-avif: decoders upsample chroma by sample replication, diverging from reference decoders #1016 made the decoder's default chroma upsampling byte-identical to libjpeg-turbo, replacing the upsampling_matches split with full_chroma and turning encode_cross_parity_gamut_vs_libjpeg into one exact max-diff 0 assertion over Mode::ALL. The merge (d37a1048) keeps that form, so 4:4:0 now runs under the exact assertion rather than a PSNR floor; this branch's sampling_factors helper is kept beside full_chroma. STATUS.md keeps master's wording with 4:4:0 added to the progressive battery list. cargo test -p gamut-jpeg (including the 20 libjpeg-turbo oracle tests) passes at the merged head. To reverse: none needed; the old PSNR floor is weaker than what master now asserts.

9. Clippy & Doctests failure repaired here, though master introduced it. The doc task (RUSTDOCFLAGS=-D warnings) failed with rustdoc::private_intra_doc_links: the JpegDecoder::with_chroma_upsampling doc linked [module docs](self), and the decoder module is private. The line came from feat(gamut-color, gamut-jpeg, gamut-webp, gamut-avif)!: upsample chroma like each reference decoder by default #1044 (452aa2ae) and is identical on master, so this pull request did not cause it, but it blocks this merge. The repair (45d6dd2d) drops the parenthetical link. ChromaUpsampling::Interpolated, already linked in the same sentence, carries the explanation. crates/gamut-jpeg/src/decoder.rs is the only path this touches. GAMUT_JXL_SYS_SKIP_NATIVE=1 mise run doc, mise run fmt-check and mise run lint-quick pass at that head. To reverse: revert 45d6dd2d once master fixes the link on its own.

No human approved this plan beforehand; it is recorded here for review.

Unresolved review notes

C1

AGENTS.md:73 still listed the gamut-jpeg encoder as "gray + YCbCr 4:4:4/4:2:2/4:2:0" though this pull request ships Ycbcr440. Repaired: the entry now reads "4:4:4/4:2:2/4:2:0/4:4:0". A repository-wide search found no other stale encoder-mode list for gamut-jpeg. mise run check-agents-edges passes (32 crates, 131 edges) and mise run check-commits passes.
Resolved at: af70b0d

Issue

Closes #1014