Support for Google WebP in picture compare

[Rick Steinwand]

Google's open source WebP image format is about 50% smaller than jpeg and it'd be nice if BC supported it.

So far only Opera and Webkit browsers support it.

More on WebP: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/using

Thanks.

(Sorry, I see I posted in the wrong forum.)

[Aaron]

Thanks for the suggestion. I can add looking into this to our Customer Wishlist. In the meantime, you would need to run a binary scan on these files in the Folder Compare instead of attempting to open them in the Picture Compare.

[Zoë]

The image compare also supports external conversions before comparing files, so you could use dwebp to convert to PNG. It'll be slower than built-in support, since it has to launch a new process for each file, but should work reasonably well.

[Rick Steinwand]

Thanks.

[Rick Steinwand]

If you install this Windows codec, you'll get webp thumbnails in explorer and image compare in BC works with webp images.

https://developers.google.com/speed/...ocs/webp_codec