#webp filetype

[remyrockstheworld]

THIS

i fuckig hate when you have to download something off googl and you're so excited and its perfect for what you need but then its WEBP

like why tf are my only choices to suffer immensely no matter what but either search for a different img/the same img in a different file type

or search for a converter that knows how to FUCKIJNG CONVERT IT CORRECTLY and potentially get 180000000000000 viruses

UGH

webp. more like wet ppee.

also on bsky

[gentlyorbiting]

i have only one WEBP file saved on my computer. it's called "i hate webps.webp" and every time I download a WEBP i save over this file then immediately convert the WEBP to a normal human filetype. i hope the WEBPs feel bad when then I save over them; i hope it feels like dying.

[twentythousandvolts]

i think that a lot of the issue with webp is that it isnt compatible with like. Most programs. like id be fine with them if they were useful for literally anything besides being displayed on websites but nooo i cant even natively view or edit them on my computer. And some websites dont even accept them as a filetype (despite some ive found doing this literally Converting things to webp anyways) like. ? come on man

[artfight]

Are there any plans to support the .WebP file format? In my experience it's a MUCH better alternative to .gif (the only problem being that very few things support it)

Generally, since it's a new filetype, there aren't many people using the .WebP file format. We want our userbase to be able to download files and upload them somewhere else (like Toyhou.se, etc.), so it doesn't seem feasible at this moment.

[antichristpilled]

tired of made up filetypes. what the fuck is a jfif. a webp. those are MENTAL illnesses. when i was a kid, it was either jpg or png. grow up. are liberals coming for my computer photos now?

[hydrus]

Version 578

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I had a good week mostly doing some simple work. In a bonus, animated webps are now fully supported.

full changelog

highlights

Animated webp decoding is not widely supported, but we discovered a method this week and I plugged it into my old (slightly janky) native animation viewer. I have made it work just like the for gif and (a)png, where, within hydrus, images and animations will count as different filetypes. On update, all your existing webps will be queued for a rescan. If they are actually animated, they will become 'animated webp' and get num_frames and a duration, and they'll play animated in the media viewer. Let me know if you run into any trouble with it!

I added an 'eye' icon menu button to the top hover window in the media viewer. It has those five new checkboxes for 'draw stuff in the background' I added last week, and I expect to add 'always on top' and similar options to it in future.

The 'known urls' media menu has a couple changes. It is now just called 'urls'; it gets a 'manage' command, moved from the 'manage' menu; and you can now open an URL 'in a new page' (i.e. opening a new search page with 'system:known url=blah'), so if you need to find all the files that have a particular URL, this is now just one click.

next week

I am now on vacation for a week. As normal I'm just going to disappear to shitpost fake-E3 and otherwise try diligently to achieve nothing of any importance. I'll be back Saturday 15th, with v579 on Wednesday 19th. Thanks everyone, see you later!

[beastshopping]

Hold on I saw a vision from a less bad timeline

Musk is trying really hard to get an image filetype called .meme to catch on but no one wants to use it because it's a worse version of Gifs. It's like Gifs were Webp.

This is the main thing he's known for.

[loveletterworm]

Only tangentially related because I think this isn't considered an ex feature just a 3.0 feature (i think i don't currently have it either way) but they recently added WebP export. Can you imagine how funny it would be to start exporting all my pictures as WebPs on purpose? People who for some reason care about this would be so mad at my faster loading yet still lossless files. They'd be furious

clip studio ex charges so much extra money for really specific quality of life features and you just never think you'd need those for years until one day you kind of do. and it's really annoying somehow.

[thundercrackerslampshade]

Tell me the most annoying filetype and why it is .webp

[tobacconist]

keep noticing that some images on here will only download as webp or avif, despite the fact that tumblr doesnt even let you post those filetypes ???

[chatpileroan]

the 'p' in 'webp' stands for 'piece of shit'

[gloryofdawn]

I will bathe in the blood of anyone who feels .webp is a filetype worth using

PNG is my friend. JPEG is my mentor. WEBP is my sworn enemy

[valeriehalla]

hi this might be a strange question but on twitter i often see you posting stuff about, what I assume to be image optimization? like, i can't really tell because its a lot of jargon i dont really get, but i see you drop a lot of musings on different types of image formats and the colours they can support and what exporting your art into them looks like and whatnot. and like, i hardly understand any of it but it looks really interesting to me and I want to explore it. do you know what im referring to and whats a good place to start?

i'm going to tell you this straight up: it is so normal to not know what the f██k i'm talking about at any given moment!!!!! especially on twitter.

right now i'm developing a small engine for playing a kind of visual novel in the browser. because it runs in a web browser and downloads data off a server as you play it, it's important to store the images in a way that minimizes their filesize while keeping their quality as high as possible. i happen to be the kind of person who finds this stuff very fascinating. that said, if you're not in the position of developing a web app, image optimization is really super not something you need to worry about. for one thing, any image you upload to a social media website is going to be re-processed by their servers anyway; the filetype will be changed, the image will be scaled and compressed in a number of ways beyond your control. so if you're uploading to social media, or any other automated image upload system, you should just feed it the highest quality PNG you can export and not worry about it.

if you are in a position where you're hosting image files and they're not being processed by someone else: use webp! "it's the best image file format and it's not even close." it can compress images losslessly (like png) or lossily (like jpeg), and it is far far better at it than either of those formats while offering more features. beyond the choice of filetype and selecting a quality setting that you like, everything else is basically just nitpicking. (it's just a kind of nit i love to pick)

[machine-saint]

it's kind of funny seeing people say "oh you can save a webp as a png if you just change the extension if you save it" because that's not at all how that works, but it's interesting that they think it works because it makes me wonder: do they use programs that link against a webp decoding library and autodetect image formats based on magic bytes but don't list webp in their supported filetypes, or what?

[pulaasul]

i would like to add, that I've been using this method, and sometimes, adding "&format=original" to the image url doesn't work.

The only way for it "convert" back to the proper file type is to put the image url into the now defunct internet explorer, if you still have it as it hasn't seen support in years, iirc, the webp filetype doesn't exist for that internet browser.

from webp it's back to png or jpg.

me when i meet the person who created webp files