Installing BPG Plugin on Linux Mint 17

[vershue]

Is the installation folder for plugins on Linux systems

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/home/username/.xnviewmp/Plugins

?

And is this the package to install BPG plugin on Linux XNView MP here: http://www.xnview.com/download/plugins/bpg.zip

or here: https://github.com/256bai/ifbpg/blob/ma ... -0.9.5.zip

Can someone tell me how to install this plugin? I've been trying and failing.

[XnTriq]

The following step-by-step instructions should also work for the 32-bit edition of XnViewMP:

1. Download susie.zip and (the latest version of) ifBPG-*.zip.
2. Extract the contents of both archives to the Plugins subdirectory of your XnView installation.
3. Restart XnView.

32-bit plug-ins are not compatible with 64-bit editions of XnView, XnViewMP or XnConvert.

[vershue]

Thanks!

I'm using 64-bit XNViewMP. Are Xsusie.dll and ifBPG.spi 32-bit?

I just uninstalled the 64-bit version and installed the 32-bit version. I put both Xsusie.dll and ifBPG.spi in the Plugin folder. I restarted XNViewMP and tried to open a bpg file. It says "File can't be loaded."

Here's some screenshots:




It appears that the BPG plugin isn't installed correctly.

[XnTriq]

Are Xsusie.dll and ifBPG.spi 32-bit?

Yes, I just checked again: Both are 32-bit DLLs.

It appears that the BPG plugin isn't installed correctly.

There are currently two BPG plug-ins: One is based on the Susie API (Xsusie.dll + ifBPG.spi), the other uses bpgdec.exe (BPG Image Decoder) of the official binary distribution for Windows.
Unfortunately I can't do tests on Linux myself, and I don't know if or how XnViewMP/XnConvert for Linux interact with Windows DLLs.
We have to wait for the developer of XnView. He can give you a definitive answer.

[vershue]

XnTriq, I was able to install Simple BPG Image Viewer https://github.com/asimba/pybpgviewer/releases, which is okay for the time being. But I'd much prefer to view BPGs in XnViewMP. Hopefully a Linux user can help me with this.

[oops66]

XnTriq, I was able to install Simple BPG Image Viewer https://github.com/asimba/pybpgviewer/releases, which is okay for the time being. But I'd much prefer to view BPGs in XnViewMP. Hopefully a Linux user can help me with this.

Hello,
Not for the bpg plugin for XnViewMP linux, but just to play with bpg format into Linux (decoder and encoder and viewer)...
A workaround:
Install or compile the latest bpg-0.9.5-linux.tar.xz, or in case of trouble to compile the latest bpg-0.9.5-linux.tar.xz, you can download the 0.9.5 or 0.9.4 static linux binary here, to make some .bpg tests:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/uyycc ... d64.tar.xz
http://www.mediafire.com/download/muwfw ... nux.tar.xz

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ex:
./bpgview file.bpg
./bpgdec -i 003.bpg -o out.png
./bpgenc lena30.jpg -o out.bpg

[xnview]

the bpg plugin is not yet for XnViewMP