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Summary
Name	Better Portable Graphics
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Other names
Identifiers	PUID: fmt/687
Family
Classification	Image (Raster)
Disclosure
Description	Better Portable Graphics (BPG) is a raster image format created by Fabrice Bellard. It is intended as a compression-efficient alternative to the JPEG image format. It is based on the intra-frame encoding of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) video compression standard, and various metadata profiles (such as EXIF, ICC profile, XMP) are supported.
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Related file formats	None.
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	None.
Supported by	None.
Source	Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date	11 Feb 2015
Source description
Last updated	11 Feb 2015
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