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I've converted some images from jpeg to google's WebP image format, which reduces my images' size by about 90%!

The big problem is that WebP images can only be viewed with a web browser, not with nautilus (the thumbnails) and/or any photo program at all. It seems that at this moment there is only a codec for Windows.

Does anyone know if this is also possible in Ubuntu?

Zanna
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Kapé
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Up to 14.04

There is a plugin for the GIMP, written by Nathan Osman.

You can add this plugin from his webptools PPA:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:george-edison55/webp

Then install the required package: gimp-webp Install gimp-webp

sudo apt-get install gimp-webp

As for thumbnails in nautilus, this seems to be a bug with MIME, as apparently (so I was told) Nautilus already "supports" the webp format, but the thumbnails do not show up as they should.

Pablo Bianchi
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RolandiXor
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Since 16.04

display image.webp

or for thumbnails

display 'vid:*.webp'

Imagemagick does support webp now, although it uses webp, so you need to install webp

sudo apt-get install webp
Janghou
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Since 14.04 [universe] there is the vwebp command in the webp package:

sudo apt install webp

Then:

vwebp imagefile.webp

To get thumbnails in Nautilus see this answer (like Aquarius Power said above).

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