BPG Image Format Plugins

What is BPG format?

Its purpose is to replace the JPEG image format when quality or file size is an issue.
~ http://bellard.org/bpg/

What does this project do?

• Implement BPG plugins for image viewers
  • XnView / XnViewMP
  • Susie
  • Imagine
• Modify libbpg to improve API usability
• Provide C++ wrapper classes to libbpg

Features

• BPG read
• BPG write
• Fast multi-thread YUV <-> RGB conversion

Not supported

• YCgCo / CMYK colorspace
• Grayscale with limited component range
• Premultiplied alpha
• Writing 8-bit colour / 32-bit source images
• Animation

How to install

• See wiki

References

• libbpg

  • http://bellard.org/bpg/
  • v0.9.7

• libx265

  • http://x265.org/
  • V2.5

• ffmpeg

  • https://ffmpeg.org/
  • v3.4