WebP

WebP is an image file format developed by Google, primarily intended for use on web pages.

It can use either lossy or lossless compression. Its lossy compression is based on portions of the VP8 video compression format.

It uses the RIFF container format.

See also WebP 2.

Identification
Files begin with bytes.

Software

 * Konvertor
 * libwebp: download · development
 * Google Chrome can display WebP images
 * ImageMagick
 * abydos

Sample files

 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/webp/

Links

 * Google's WebP page
 * Wikipedia article
 * Online demonstrator - shows quality differences between similarly-sized images in JPEG, JP2, WebP and BPG formats
 * How WebP works (lossly mode)