Sergio0694
Support saving textures to non-built in ContainerFormats
Rationale
WIC is extensible and allows users to register other ContainerFormats for use. Today, if a user has installed the HEIF Image Extensions from the Microsoft Store, they can load an image in that format by passing a FileStream to the texture.
During save, the output format is either determined from the file extension (see #799) or the provided ImageFormat. Only built in ContainerFormats can be used.
Proposed API
The proposed API would allow users to specify the output format using a ContainerFormat provided in the form of a Guid instead.
Drawbacks
Unknown.
Alternatives
Unknown.
Other thoughts
In .NET WPF, a custom WIC encoder can be constructed from the ContainerFormat Guid. For example using BitmapEncoder.Create(new("E1E62521-6787-405B-A339-500715B5763F")) hooks up the HEIF Image Extensions from the Microsoft Store and allows users to save images in this format. Note this only works on later .NET and not in the .NET Framework due to a bug (https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/6344).
