XnView Software

I love that new version supports WebP, but it looks like the code is based on the older WebP decoder, which had some quality issues.

Here's the issue that I reported to WebP developers, and they already fixed it in the new version:

http://code.google.com/p/webp/issues/detail?id=14

Could this fix ...

Thank you! Works perfectly!

Thank you! Works fine now.

nintendomaniac64 wrote:Odd, I saved it as a BMP via MSpaint and I still couldn't get it to convert.

Try "sequence convert" your avatar.

crashes.

Would be nice.

How about this one:

Jaff wrote:That's not a problem.

Incomplete support for PNG format *is* a problem for XnView.

So far, I'm not impressed...

DOS386 wrote:Not always. New things are only good if they are significantly superior to old stuff and don't have critical regressions

Always. Not-superior ones could serve as a learning experience for others. I consider it good too.

Adding yet another one at this point will only muddy the waters & make it so that none of them get widespread support.

Trying new things is always good. Look at video codecs, how many new ones we saw since DivX 3 days? Probably hundreds. They compete, they learn from each other, some die, but top ...

New image format from Google:

http://code.google.com/speed/webp/gallery.html

The format Is very young, so no image viewers support it, but... it's a good opportunity for XnView to be the first! Please, add WebP support!

XnView can't show those animations correctly:

http://animatedpng.com/index.php/news/f ... g-samples/

Still buggy in 1.97.7

> It's way better then the old java converter that could only do 8bit->32bit conversions,
> which almost always meant bigger file.
> gif2apng can do 8bit->8bit conversions, and usually makes files smaller than the originals.

XN 1.97.4 can't display them ... FF 4.0b1 can ...


XN 1.97.6 displays ...