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Operating System Specific Discussions => Other Operating Systems => Topic started by: LtPlay49 on October 01, 2010, 09:54:00 PM

Title: New image file format by google based on IFF container
Post by: LtPlay49 on October 01, 2010, 09:54:00 PM

Google unveiled a new image compression file format :

OS News article (http://www.osnews.com/story/23856/Google_Unveils_WebP_New_Image_Format_for_the_Web)

It's based on RIFF container which is IFF with endian format adapted to x86 :

RIFF Article on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Format)

Always cool to see IFF is relevant today. :rolleyes:

Title: Re: New image file format by google based on IFF container
Post by: LtPlay49 on October 01, 2010, 10:00:38 PM

Already an OS 4 Native version here (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cdyoung/tmp/webpconv.lha)...

Sadly Don't have OS 4 to test :(