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Summary

Name WebP
Version Lossless
Other names  
Identifiers PUID:  fmt/567
MIME:  image/webp
Family  
Classification Image (Raster)
Disclosure  
Description WebP is a raster image format developed by Google that uses the Resource Interchange File Format as a container. WebP’s lossless compression uses advanced techniques such as dedicated entropy codes for different color channels, exploiting 2D locality of backward reference distances and a color cache of recently used colors. This complements basic techniques such as dictionary coding, Huffman coding and color indexing transform.
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Related file formats Has priority over Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF)  
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Supported until  
Format Risk  
Developed by Google
Supported by Google
Source Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date 19 Jul 2013
Source description 08/2023 (v.113) - Added priority over fmt/1886 (Resource Interchange Format (RIFF)). Submitted by New York Public Libraries and Preservica. 11/2023 (v.115)- Added MIME identifier 'webp/image'. Submitted by Archives New Zealand. 04/2024 (v.118)- Corrected MIME identifier to 'image/webp'. Submitted by Archives New Zealand.
Last updated 15 Apr 2024
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