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WebP is an image format developed by Google that provides both lossy and lossless compression and support for an alpha channel.

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ImageMagick convert can't convert to webp

On Ubuntu 12.04 ImageMagick doesn't seem to support webp. convert flyer.png flyer.webp Creates a png file with webp extension. On webp docs is stated that ImageMagick does support webp $ convert --version` Version: ImageMagick 6.6.9-7 2012-08-17…
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How to preview DDS and WEBP images on nautilus?

I have too many images to search visually, so I cannot open each one of them individually. What do I have to do or install to show DDS image previews on nautilus? I would like to preview webp too if possible.
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Which image-viewers in Linux support the `webp` image format?

Is there any way to see WebP photo from Thunar with Xfce DE? There was a similar question, but it was about nautilus. Then to get WebP thumbnails tumbler (the Xfce thumbnailing service) must support, and there are nothing. Then to open pictures, the…
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How to add WebP support to Eye of GNOME?

WebP image files are becoming more and more common on the web. Eye of GNOME (eog) doesn't support it out-of-the-box. Some browsers do, and ImageMagick as well by just installing the webp package (magick/convert -list format). A simple search leads…
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Is it possible to view WebP images in nautilus / photo program?

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…
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how to install webp plugin for gimp?

how to install gimp webp plugin? I found out that we can do it using with gimp-plugin-registry, but donno how. I have install gimp-plugin-registry extension for gimp from ubuntu software center, now what should i do? I also found out that we can put…
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Thumbnail view in 'Files' can't see .webp images

In the ubuntu files browser 'Files' I can set the default viewer for a given filetype (right-click->properties->open with) - but is there a way to get Files itself to show thumbnails for .webp images (which eg imagmagick, cv2 and gimp all seem to…
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How can I convert an animated WebP to a WebM?

I would like to convert an animated WebP file to a WebM. However, most tools only support converting to an animated WebP but not back, when they support animated WebPs at all: ImageMagick's convert does not support animated WebP, ffmpeg does not…
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Image editors to convert images to WebP for Ubuntu?

Is there a good image editor application for Ubuntu with which I can convert jpg/png images into WebP format? ImageMagick was a crap for me! With it, output webp image's size just increased!!!
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Cannot open 90% of recently saved images (webp format)

I very recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop and have been having this issue where I can't open most of the images I have saved. I get an error that says Unrecognized Image File Format (but they are literally just jpgs and PNGs). I've…
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Why are WebP utilities built on Ubuntu 14.04 not working and showing a library error?

I've built WebP utilities on Ubuntu 14.04 following these instructions found at the official website of WebP. As I've done everything successfully, my system should let me compress and decompress images using cwebp and dwebp utilities respectively.…
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Ubuntu 16.04 Imagemagick convert jpg webp

I was wondering about the following; I use the following command to find .jpg files in (sub)directorys and convert (mogrify) them to .webp files. find . -name '*.jpg' -execdir mogrify -format webp {} \; In this case: file.jpg becomes file.webp…
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How to convert webp to grayscale png?

I have a bunch of webp images and need to convert them to png format. I know png supports different color modes like grayscale which I need. Is there any Linux tool or online services to achieve this fast and easy? I tried different online…
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converting graphics files from webP to gif

I have downloaded a number of video clips they are in a format called .webp. How do I convert them to .gif? A chat room I use frequently only allows .gif and .jpeg files. I've done something like this before but it was ages ago and I can't remember…
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How to convert all images from subdirectories to webp

For example I have a folder called Images and there are 26 folders inside is a,b,c,d contains multiple images each in different format jpg,png,jpeg. How to convert all those images to webp and deleted the originals or else copy converted files to…
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