Port request: 'bpg' and 'libbpg' (new image format "Better Portable Graphics")

[KurtPfeifle (Kurt Pfeifle)]

There is a new image file format named BPG ("Better Portable Graphics"), developed by Fabrice Bellard (famous for QEMU amongst other things). It supports metadata, alpha channel as well as animations. Here are some infos:

• General info: ​http://bellard.org/bpg/

Here is the spec:

• BPG spec: ​http://bellard.org/bpg/bpg_spec.txt

Here are a few visual comparisons of the Lena and other images:

• "Lena" images: ​http://bellard.org/bpg/lena.html
• A gallery: ​http://bellard.org/bpg/gallery2.html
• Another gallery: ​http://bellard.org/bpg/gallery3.html
• Example of animation: ​http://bellard.org/bpg/animation.html

Here is a link to the currently released source tarball:

• Sources: ​http://bellard.org/bpg/bpg-0.9.5-win32.zip

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Thanks for the reminder. I was going to do this.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

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