New Image Format

**matthew** · 08-02-2013, 04:08

Has anyone heard about the new image format used by Google called 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.

**Petr Schreiber** · 08-02-2013, 10:06

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** · 08-02-2013, 11:23

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** · 08-02-2013, 13:00

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** · 08-02-2013, 19:56

I thought that when I first heard about it but from what I see on the Wikipedia page here, it does seem to have a lot of supporters and implementations.