GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 717880
WebP Support
Last modified: 2018-09-11 21:08:45 UTC
---- Reported by shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2011-05-24 01:55:00 -0700 ---- Original Redmine bug id: 3650 Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3650 Searchable id: yorba-bug-3650 Original author: Craig Barnes Original description: As a total philistine who cares very little for the mantra of “never delete the originals†and who would like to save some disk/Picasa space, I was just wondering if WebP support in Shotwell manager/viewer is currently under consideration. I know it's probably quite low priority at the moment but I just wanted to put this out there anyway. ---- Additional Comments From shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2011-05-24 12:01:00 -0700 ---- ### History #### #1 Updated by Eric Gregory over 2 years ago It depends what you mean by “support.†Any video format that your system recognizes via mime type **should** be recognized by Shotwell. However, we don't currently support timestamps of WebP videos. #### #2 Updated by Eric Gregory over 2 years ago Oops sorry, I was thinking WebM, not WebP (who picks these names?!) Currently we'd need a Gnome library to interpret these images. But it's possible we'll add this at some point. #### #3 Updated by Mateusz Loskot over 2 years ago I'm also interested in WebP format. I may be available to collaborate hacking and testing it. Here is something interesting: _I am developing a GDK Pixbuf Loader for WebP_ from [Decoding a WebP image by chunks](https://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/group/webp- discuss/browse_thread/thread/a175cfbacaf950dc/) thread. --- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-25 21:54 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 3650 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3650 Unknown Component Using default product and component set in Parameters Unknown version " in product shotwell. Setting version to "!unspecified". Unknown milestone "unknown in product shotwell. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one. Resolution set on an open status. Dropping resolution
I'd like to see the priority of this feature increased? . When converting my photos to WEBP I see about a 60% savings on space with no noticeable affect on image quality. I'm quite impressed! I'd like to convert my entire library and be able keep more photos locally. I suspect cameras will eventually use this format instead of JPEG.
Postpone to 0.30, needs gexiv that depends on exiv2 0.26 (most likely 0.12) for proper webp support in exiv2
Fixed on master