Browser save-as-type to the rescue.
Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-converter/
Chrome too, but find it yourself if you are still using that.
Webp is actually a decent format, it’s just that a certain desktop OS used by roughly 70% of people chooses to not support it
decent format
poorly supported
Hmm. I know what you mean but wide support is like 90% of the usefulness for a general image format.
its kinda like linux, its great and everybody loves it
but only 2% of people use it
as lemmy shows those 2% realllllly like it.
Don’t I know it, as a decade+ Linux user. Technically best thing doesn’t always win the popularity contest. For a general use operating system lack of software (and game) support is a similar issue as lack of support for image format and it’s really harming Linux too.
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Lemmy.world’s android app doesn’t fully support it. I frequently get broken link image and never get animation. I know it can work because the same posts work in the Thundarr Lemmy app.
*It isn’t as decent when you look at it’s raw facts but for the web it’s a step into future.
*Now behold of avif!
! please can we just get jxl for web finally…? !<
Tl;Dr: PNG but better.
It losslessly compressed ~150GB of my PNGs to ~75GB, so I’d say it’s definitely better space-wise.
Yes.
(Ok there might be a lossy mode but that is barely better than jpg via mozjpeg)
I really like WEBP.
It supports transparency, animations, and compression, and seems to look really good even with very strong compression. It’s a shame that, despite it coming out 13 years ago, it’s still barely supported by so much software.
Sounds to me like people need to stop supporting software that doesn’t take the time to update. WEBP is great, and I haven’t run into a single program that doesn’t support it, personally.
ffmpeg -i file.webp file.png
But can it convert animated webp’s back into the gifs they’re based off of anyway? That’s what makes me really hate the webp standard. If I save an animated image as webp no video converter will touch it that I’ve found. I just want my gifs and mp4s back :(
You can convert it to frames with imagemagick, then use ffmpeg to turn that into a gif:
magick animated.webp frames.png
ffmpeg -i frames-%d.png animated.gif
EDIT, or with a single imagemagick command:
convert -format gif file.webp file.gif
ffmpeg -i file.webp file.mp4 probably works, ffmpeg is mainly a video program anyway
Not yet supported, unfortunately: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/4907
