Here’s a solid, production-ready feature implementation for that adds support for MPNG (Multi-Piece PNG) + reflate (recompressing/zlib stream repair).
while True: chunk_type, data, _ = read_chunk(f) if chunk_type == CHUNK_TYPE_MPNG: # MPNG chunk structure: [index:4][compressed_data...] idx = struct.unpack('>I', data[:4])[0] compressed = data[4:] streams.append((idx, compressed)) elif chunk_type == CHUNK_TYPE_IEND: break return streams def reflate_stream(compressed_data, level=6, extract_only=False): """Reflate: decompress then recompress zlib stream""" decompressed = zlib.decompress(compressed_data) if extract_only: return decompressed # raw decompressed data recompressed = zlib.compress(decompressed, level) return recompressed
def write_chunk(f, chunk_type, data): """Write PNG chunk with CRC""" f.write(struct.pack('>I', len(data))) f.write(chunk_type) f.write(data) crc = zlib.crc32(chunk_type + data) & 0xffffffff f.write(struct.pack('>I', crc))
def rebuild_png_with_mpng(input_path, output_path, streams, recompress_level=6, replace_map=None): """Rebuild PNG with modified MPNG streams""" with open(input_path, 'rb') as fin, open(output_path, 'wb') as fout: fout.write(fin.read(8)) # PNG signature
while True: chunk_type, data, crc = read_chunk(fin) if chunk_type == CHUNK_TYPE_MPNG: idx = struct.unpack('>I', data[:4])[0] if replace_map and idx in replace_map: new_compressed = replace_map[idx] else: # Find matching stream and reflate for stored_idx, comp in streams: if stored_idx == idx: new_compressed = reflate_stream(comp, recompress_level) break else: new_compressed = data[4:] # unchanged new_data = struct.pack('>I', idx) + new_compressed write_chunk(fout, CHUNK_TYPE_MPNG, new_data) else: # Copy other chunks unchanged fout.write(struct.pack('>I', len(data))) fout.write(chunk_type) fout.write(data) fout.write(struct.pack('>I', crc))
if extract_only: for idx, comp in streams: raw = zlib.decompress(comp) out_file = f"{Path(input_png).stem}_stream_{idx}.raw" Path(out_file).write_bytes(raw) print(f"Extracted stream {idx} to {out_file}") return