XnView Software

cday wrote: Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:58 pm Just a thought: XnView Classic is 32-bit, are you testing the plugin you created on XnView MP 32-bit?

Of course... not. Well, i tried the 32bit version now, it doesn't seem to work with it either. Tried recompiling the plugin for 64bit, also no luck.

Hi. I wanted to try my hand at writing a plugin to support an additional image format in XnView MP, but i don't have any experience writing custom dll libraries, and i've been searching this forum up and down and couldn't find any information on the subject.

I found PluginsSDK-win.zip from years ...

Bumping cause i only now realized that XnView actually does support both BC4 and BC5, it just doesn't recognize FourCCs that some of the encoders write. It seems to expect FourCC for those formats to be "BC4U" and "BC5U", while they could also be "ATI1" and "ATI2" respectively (https://github.com ...

Here you go. And here's a description of the formats: http://sv-journal.org/2014-1/06/en/inde ... ang=en#5-4

More specifically, BC4 and BC5 compression, which is fairly common in modern video games.

The problem i have is not just that XnView doesn't open .dds files in these formats, which is unfortunate, but i have other programs which can do that, but if you have XnView's browser set to only display ...