BPG
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| − | '''BPG''' (Better Portable Graphics) is a compressed raster graphic format | + | '''BPG''' (Better Portable Graphics) is a compressed raster graphic format, using [[HEVC]] to encode pictures. Animation, deep color, and metadata are supported. The format is experimental and not natively supported by browsers; a Javascript loader is available that converts BPG to [[PNG]] for display. The bitstream format is very similar to raw HEVC. |
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* [http://bellard.org/bpg/bpg_spec.txt BPG Specification] | * [http://bellard.org/bpg/bpg_spec.txt BPG Specification] | ||
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| + | == See Also == | ||
| + | * [[HEIF]] | ||
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== Software == | == Software == | ||
Revision as of 17:27, 30 May 2020
BPG (Better Portable Graphics) is a compressed raster graphic format, using HEVC to encode pictures. Animation, deep color, and metadata are supported. The format is experimental and not natively supported by browsers; a Javascript loader is available that converts BPG to PNG for display. The bitstream format is very similar to raw HEVC.
image/bpg has been suggested for the MIME type, but none is formally registered.
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Identification
BPG files start with the following 4-byte magic pattern: 42 50 47 fb.
Specs
See Also
Software
Sample files
- Comparison with JPEG (actual BPG files: lena_q36.bpg, lena_q32.bpg, lena_q28.bpg, lena_q23.bpg)
- Wikipedia pictures (actual BPG files: 003.bpg,005.bpg)
- Images with alpha channel (actual BPG files: 2.bpg,2small.bpg, 3.bpg, 5.bpg)
- https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/test.bpg
Links
- Official format specification
- Official site
- Wikipedia article
- BPG, a still-image format from video compression
- Some discussion
- Identification of BPG format
- Online demonstrator- shows quality differences between similarly-sized images in JPEG, JP2, WebP and BPG formats
- Unofficial Github mirror
