diff --git a/applications/codec/j2k_dump.c b/applications/codec/j2k_dump.c
index 3b321a45..3af5708c 100644
--- a/applications/codec/j2k_dump.c
+++ b/applications/codec/j2k_dump.c
@@ -359,6 +359,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		return 1;
 	}
 
+    /* j2k_dump focuses on j2k codestream and skips JP2 boxes */
+    parameters.flags = 1;
+    /* j2k_dump shall not actually decode packets (parsing codestream is enough). */
+    parameters.cp_limit_decoding = DECODE_ALL_BUT_PACKETS;
+
 	/* Initialize reading of directory */
 	if(img_fol.set_imgdir==1){	
 		num_images=get_num_images(img_fol.imgdirpath);
@@ -454,7 +459,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 			cio = opj_cio_open((opj_common_ptr)dinfo, src, file_length);
 
 			/* decode the stream and fill the image structure */
-			if (*indexfilename)				/* If need to extract codestream information*/
+            if (*indexfilename)				/* If need to extract codestream information*/
 				image = opj_decode_with_info(dinfo, cio, &cstr_info);
 			else
 				image = opj_decode(dinfo, cio);
@@ -503,7 +508,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 			cio = opj_cio_open((opj_common_ptr)dinfo, src, file_length);
 
 			/* decode the stream and fill the image structure */
-			if (*indexfilename)				/* If need to extract codestream information*/
+            if (*indexfilename)				/* If need to extract codestream information*/
 				image = opj_decode_with_info(dinfo, cio, &cstr_info);
 			else
 				image = opj_decode(dinfo, cio);			
diff --git a/libopenjpeg/j2k.c b/libopenjpeg/j2k.c
index 06e7b061..2bca97ac 100644
--- a/libopenjpeg/j2k.c
+++ b/libopenjpeg/j2k.c
@@ -1726,6 +1726,8 @@ static void j2k_read_eoc(opj_j2k_t *j2k) {
 	}
 	/* if packets should not be decoded  */
 	else {
+        opj_event_msg(j2k->cinfo, EVT_INFO, "Codestream parsing complete.\n");
+        opj_event_msg(j2k->cinfo, EVT_INFO, "Skipped actual packet decoding.\n");
 		for (i = 0; i < j2k->cp->tileno_size; i++) {
 			tileno = j2k->cp->tileno[i];
 			opj_free(j2k->tile_data[tileno]);