Now this is what happens if you don't do open source: you miss the credits. After a thread on Flashcoders Branden Hall put up a PHP script called Mozaic for download. It allows you to convert a JPEG into a data stream which can be loaded into flash so you can read the pixel values.

Now doesn't that sound familiar? I hit into that problem a while ago and came up with this. I guess it is time to release the source. Especially as I think that my method cuts down the filesize a lot.