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    New Image Format

    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.

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    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?


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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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