ImageMagick – MagickCore, C API: The Pixel FIFO
Author: ImageMagick Studio LLC
Description: ImageMagick is a powerful, open-source software suite for creating, editing, converting, and manipulating images in over 200 formats. Ideal for web developers, graphic designers, and researchers, it offers versatile tools for image processing, including batch processing, format conversion, and complex image transformations.
Keywords: MagickCore, C API: The Pixel FIFO, Image Processing, Digital Image Editing, Image Conversion, Open-Source Software, Image Manipulation, Command-Line Image Tools

# Stream

## StreamImageCommand

StreamImageCommand() is a lightweight method designed to extract pixels from large image files to a raw format using a minimum of system resources. The entire image or any regular portion of the image can be extracted.

The format of the StreamImageCommand method is:

    MagickBooleanType StreamImageCommand(ImageInfo *image_info,int argc,
      char **argv,char **metadata,ExceptionInfo *exception)

A description of each parameter follows:

image_info
  the image info.
argc
  the number of elements in the argument vector.
argv
  A text array containing the command line arguments.
metadata
  any metadata is returned here.
exception
  return any errors or warnings in this structure.