XnView Software

Interesting. They say they have a plugin for XnView but I have been unable to find it.

eL_PuSHeR wrote:Interesting. They say they have a plugin for XnView but I have been unable to find it.

Where do you have seen that?

It is only mentioned once on the FAQ web page (about half way down).

I haven't been able to find the actual plug-in.

Whether HiPix implements an XnView plug-in or not, the fact that XnView is mentioned in the same sentence with Photoshop is a real tribute to XnView's visibility in the graphic community.

The RAR self-extractor contains HPX_PC_Setup.msi (and setup.exe).
When I'm feeding Windows Installer with it, ...

• msiexec /a X:\Downloads\HPX_PC_Setup.msi /qb TARGETDIR="X:\Temp\HPX_PC\"

... the following files are extracted:

• \HPX_PC\WebUpdate3.exe.config
  \HPX_PC\HPXDecoderLibrary.dll
  \HPX_PC\HPXEncoderLibrary.dll
  \HPX_PC\ThumbHpx.dll
  \HPX_PC\hipix_update.exe
  \HPX_PC\hipix_viewer.exe
  \HPX_PC\hipix_wiz.exe
  \HPX_PC\WebUpdate3.exe
  \HPX_PC\hipix_tm.JPG
  \HPX_PC\HPX_PC_Setup.msi
  \HPX_PC\The_EUA_7_10 (3).rtf

No 8BI? The rest are just Visual Studio runtime libraries:

• \HPX_PC\Windows\
  • \HPX_PC\Windows\system32\
    \HPX_PC\Windows\winsxs\

The .NET framework is required for Viewer and Transcoder (Wiz) to run, and the Thumb Extractor DLL seems to be nothing but a plug-in for enabling Windows Explorer to view thumbnails embedded in HPX files

The webpage doesn't seem to be 100% done either. I cliked on forums and I got a 404 error.

Too bad it's not an open source format.

Ira Dvir (VP4R&D@HM) posted this comment on October 9th:

Ira Dvir (Diary Of An x264 Developer: [url=http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/541#comment-6348]H.264 and VP8 for still image coding: WebP?[/url]) wrote:Guys, soon we’ll release Hipix plugins for a few popular picture editing tools like Photoshop and XnView. The main issue for us is photos of hi-res coming from cellular handseta with 8,12,1nd soon 16MP, where the CMOS output is compressed using Hipix far better than JPEG-XR JP2K and WebP. We also support the following: 422 color format (as coming from the CMPS) EXIF import/export. PNG is worth nothing for this purpose (as well as for pictures as pictures). It is a great format for other purposes. We are operating in the space which is focused on EXISTING HARDWARE. JP2K necer got there, and so JPEG-XR. Show me a codec, which can encode 60MP per second on existing cellular device with 30% higher file size than Hipix and I’ll call it competition.

The files currently available for download are dated September 30th.

• VizWorld
  • HIPIX Image Format to challenge Google WebP
  • Image Comparisons: PNG, WebP, and HIPIX
• Man Behind Lens
  • Putting On More Squeeze!
  • Cleaner, Better Squeeze! Or JPEG you Beauty!
  • Human Monitoring Response
  • JPEG Hell !!
• Maximum Compression
  • jpg/jpeg lossless image compression test
• Matt Mahoney
  • Data Compression Programs » JPEG Benchmarks
• Wikipedia
  • StuffIt Image Format (SIF)
• Yaakov Gringeler
  • Compressia

There is also Google's Webp format.

Oh, I see it has been posted above.

So far, I'm not impressed...