New Image Format

[matthew]

Has anyone heard about the new image format used by Google called WebP (https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/)?

It produces lossless images 26% smaller than the PNG format (it supports transparency too) and lossy images 25-34% smaller than the JPG format.

You can get precompiled binaries for Windows, Mac and Linux from here (https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/precompiled).

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi Matthew,

the format looks interesting, but the windows binaries do not contain DLLs, just OBJs.
Did you find any 32bit DLLs for this format?


Petr

[matthew]

I believe you might have to compile from source using MSYS/MinGW if you need DLLs. It's a shame because if I was using my other computer I'd probably be able to do it myself but I'm using an ancient laptop.

[Charles Pegge]

If it is a good standard, it could be assimilated into jpeg and png, but I think the space-saving advantage is not great enough for WebP to become widely adopted as another image format.

Charles

[matthew]

I thought that when I first heard about it but from what I see on the Wikipedia page here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP), it does seem to have a lot of supporters and implementations.