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minus-squareboonhet@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoWait how does that program know how to open webp? Does webp have like a fallback png mode or something?
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoWebp is a format Google made. Something gave it a codec, so it knows how to open it. It a program doesn’t have the codec to read it, no go. This may work depending on your application https://github.com/jacklicn/libwebp
minus-squareboonhet@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoAh fair enough, I thought that with it being Windows XP era software made by Microsoft, it wouldn’t load codecs dynamically like that lol
Wait how does that program know how to open webp? Does webp have like a fallback png mode or something?
Webp is a format Google made. Something gave it a codec, so it knows how to open it. It a program doesn’t have the codec to read it, no go.
This may work depending on your application https://github.com/jacklicn/libwebp
Ah fair enough, I thought that with it being Windows XP era software made by Microsoft, it wouldn’t load codecs dynamically like that lol