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|mimetypes={{mimetype|image/webp}} (unregistered)
 
|mimetypes={{mimetype|image/webp}} (unregistered)
|released=2012
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|pronom={{PRONOM|fmt/566}}, {{PRONOM|fmt/567}}, {{PRONOM|fmt/568}}
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'''WebP''' is an image file format developed by Google, primarily intended for use on web pages.
  
'''WebP''' is an image file format developed by Google. It can use either lossy or lossless compression. It uses the [[RIFF]] container format.
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It can use either lossy or lossless compression. Its lossy compression is based on portions of the [[VP8]] video compression format.
  
== References ==
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It uses the [[RIFF]] container format.
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== Identification ==
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Files begin with bytes <code>'R' 'I' 'F' 'F' ?? ?? ?? ?? 'W' 'E' 'B' 'P'</code>.
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== Software ==
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* [[Konvertor]]
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* libwebp: [https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/download download] · [http://www.webmproject.org/code/#webp-repositories development]
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* [https://www.google.com/chrome/ Google Chrome] can display WebP images
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== Links ==
 
* [https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/ Google's WebP page]
 
* [https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/ Google's WebP page]
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* [[Wikipedia:WebP|Wikipedia article]]
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* [http://xooyoozoo.github.io/yolo-octo-bugfixes/ Online demonstrator] - shows quality differences between similarly-sized images in [[JPEG]], [[JP2]], [[WebP]] and [[BPG]] formats
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* [https://medium.com/@duhroach/how-webp-works-lossly-mode-33bd2b1d0670 How WebP works (lossly mode)]
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[[Category:RIFF based file formats]]
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[[Category:Google]]

Revision as of 14:20, 6 November 2016

File Format
Name WebP
Ontology
Extension(s) .webp
MIME Type(s) image/webp (unregistered)
PRONOM fmt/566, fmt/567, fmt/568
Released 2010

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.

Identification

Files begin with bytes 'R' 'I' 'F' 'F' ?? ?? ?? ?? 'W' 'E' 'B' 'P'.

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