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CSMR · 8th January 2017, 15:28

Is this format progressing at all?

I was using JPEG XR which had similar advantages (good ratios on lossless and lossy compression, >8bit) but only reached a small amount of support and lost Photoshop support. It still has Windows Imaging Component support but lack of Photoshop support shows it's dead as a high-end format.

BPG looks even better but doesn't seem to have any software support. None of my applications can open it let alone save to it, and it doesn't have a decoder/encoder for WIC.

What is the next step for this format? Is it waiting for HEVC ubiquity before launching?

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CSMR Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 11	Is this format progressing at all? I was using JPEG XR which had similar advantages (good ratios on lossless and lossy compression, >8bit) but only reached a small amount of support and lost Photoshop support. It still has Windows Imaging Component support but lack of Photoshop support shows it's dead as a high-end format. BPG looks even better but doesn't seem to have any software support. None of my applications can open it let alone save to it, and it doesn't have a decoder/encoder for WIC. What is the next step for this format? Is it waiting for HEVC ubiquity before launching?