Index: trunk/ppImage/src/ppImageStatsOutput.c
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--- trunk/ppImage/src/ppImageStatsOutput.c	(revision 27064)
+++ trunk/ppImage/src/ppImageStatsOutput.c	(revision 29926)
@@ -28,5 +28,14 @@
         return false;
     }
-    if (!psMetadataConfigWrite(stats, resolved)) {
+
+    // check for Metadata compression options:
+    char *compressMode;
+    bool status = false;
+    if (config->camera) {
+	// XXX use a different config variable for this output?
+	compressMode = psMetadataLookupStr(&status, config->camera, "METADATA.COMPRESSION");
+    }
+
+    if (!psMetadataConfigWrite(stats, resolved, compressMode)) {
         psError(psErrorCodeLast(), false, "Unable to serialize stats metadata.\n");
         psFree(resolved);