BPG Image format

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Introduction

BPG (Better Portable Graphics) is a new image format. Its purpose is to replace the JPEG image format when quality or file size is an issue. Its main advantages are:

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The following archive contains the source code of the bpgenc, bpgdec and bpgview command line utilities (for Linux) and the associated libbpg library (read the README file in the archive). It also includes the source code of the Javascript decoder.

libbpg-0.9.8.tar.gz

Binary distribution for Windows (64 bit only): bpg-0.9.8-win64.zip

Unofficial Github mirror.

For Mac users, the BPG utilities are available in the libbpg Homebrew formula.

Performance

Demo

Technical information

The specification of the BPG file format is available here.

Licensing


Fabrice Bellard - http://bellard.org/