Thats why I built a tool that watches my download folder and converts webp and webm to png and mp4 preserving the original. Its still missing some features but its available on my GitHub for free as OSS
didn’t realize people had issues with .webp
MacOS must have native support, I don’t recall installing anything but they work fine in Preview and Quick Look
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.webp is a good format. It’s Adobe’s fault for not properly supporting it.
What’s its advantages?
Better compression and more features, it’s really nice for reducing website load times
It takes less download but more CPU to unpack it so the loading time depends on your connection and hardware. In extreme cases it may be worse than png.
I noticed this when mass converting images for my site. They’d download super quick, but then take forever to render on my ancient Macbook
Ended up using webp for the first image since it was rendered super fast, and a mix of jpeg/webp/avif for the rest (hidden in a carousel), depending on filesize and how legible text was in each image
I use Arch, btw
I don’t use Arch, btw (downvotes incoming!)
.webp? Oh great, I get to install Homebrew, search for some package to convert it into a PNG, figure out the command line options and then finally I’ll get an usable version of the image.
In case you’re actually wondering, its:
brew install webp dwebp {filename}.webp -o {filename}.png1.) Download the webp image
2.) Open using paint
3.) Save as png
KDE’s Gwenview can actually save/convert WebPs to PNGs, JPEGs, etc.
Get irfanView. IrfanView can open them and save them as PNG or JPG. I use IrfanView as my default image viewer.
I still fucking hate webp though.
Yep! Listen to the wise words of Bobandy.
IrfanView is a mainstay on my PC since I came across it years ago along with SumatraPDF.
At some point support for the format will catch up, and we can forget about it. But for now, I’ll just continue to grumble
Firefox can download them, my win10 can preview them but MS Photo cant open them afaik, but luckily there is ImageGlass, an open source image viewer:
The worst part is why apps doesn’t support webp like how they support jpg or png. That’s also a widespread image format, there’s no reason for them to not support it.
Webp is great. Why wouldn’t you use webp?
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Didn’t expect such an in-depth technical post on the meme community, but here we are :)
I wasn’t aware that WebP had this many limitations.
It really is a shame though, what Google have done to JPEG XL.This is the kind of top tier, expert commentary I come to Lemmy for, thank you for that education on the topic!
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Here’s a neat trick: When saving a .webp image file, simply rename it to .jpg, and it will open no problem in the Windows Photos app. Personally, I save all of mine as .webp.jpg, just so I can distinguish them apart from other image types in the future.
while that will work for the majority of images, webp is not just a container for jpeg compression and allows for much more (animated webp for example is the near perfect replacement for animated gif yet very few applications support it).
The big advantage is that webm and webp can use a variety of formats really well and allows you to pick the one most appropriate for your content whilst still having a container format that supports it.
Is animated webp better than .apng? Or is that what it contains?
animated webp allows for video compression it can dramatically reduce file size while also giving the same benefits as apng. It also allows for proper transparency so you don’t have to fiddle with export settings not to have layers overlap and you can use actual alpha values
While animated webp sounds nice, I’d pull an imgur and just use a webm without audio at that point since the compression works really well.
Or could I be completely OOTL and not realise that webm and webp are similar containers and could hold the same video format without sound?
Yeah, i used this trick on Windows, but when i switched to Linux it doesn’t work
Gif since 1987
Jpg since 1991
Webp since 201013 years is a long time in tech.
Now… could we talk about .heic files?
Am I the only one that reads .heic like someone vomiting?
Why? Webp is better than both jpeg and png.
The answer is a couple of comments above your comment
When I download and the file name comes up for you to name it and it shows .webp, I just erase the .webp and do .jpeg. I get a jpeg. :)
