I know nothing about computers but this does not add up
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This is MS we're talking about. Preview and Viewer are probably made by two different teams in different countries, sharing no code, and prohibited from communicating with each other, even if they know about the other's existence.
And famously they fired all QAs years ago so there's nobody to test before releasing.
I imagine the two teams sharing the same desk through a hole in the wall like in Brazil.
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This is MS we're talking about. Preview and Viewer are probably made by two different teams in different countries, sharing no code, and prohibited from communicating with each other, even if they know about the other's existence.
And famously they fired all QAs years ago so there's nobody to test before releasing.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I work in big tech and this is my life. I envy anyone who thinks you're exaggerating, because that means they haven't experienced the joy of spending weeks trying to track down the team responsible for a bug and then months hassling them to fix it.
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Is this a Windows problem I'm too Linux to understand?
Seriously, everything on my computer -- Firefox, Dolphin, Gwenview, GIMP, etc. -- supports webp just fine.
Yes. As someone who uses both, this is a M$ problem.
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PNG is so fetch.
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It's a codec issue. You can get the codec if your OEM paid for it, if not you can buy it on the MS store. It sucks but plenty of other codecs have had the same issue in the past on windows, mkv wasn't playable by windows unless you had a codec for it.
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taking a screenshot can solve some of this problem
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Look, I was a big fan of HEIF but these days I just want anything better than PNG and fucking JPEG, GIF.
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This is MS we're talking about. Preview and Viewer are probably made by two different teams in different countries, sharing no code, and prohibited from communicating with each other, even if they know about the other's existence.
And famously they fired all QAs years ago so there's nobody to test before releasing.
I can almost guarantee that they would be using different things. usually you have simpler libraries to decode formats (almost 1 for each codec), and separate programs plug these libraries in to generate the output. previews do not have to be accurate and have to be fast, so a simpler program with just linear scaling or something, where as actual image would be complex which has to worry about accuracy.
still not a excuse to not have support for a free 15 year old format
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Webp is the worst format ever.
Never mind that:
- it supports transparency;
- it can be losslessly OR lossfully compressed;
- it's so efficient it can fit y谭虈蛝虖處虥虈蜏o谭蛠虇虓虗蜐蜏碳贪坛坦台u谭虊蛣蛪瘫袒踏态摊r谈虙抬 谈虁虖蛢虩蛨台坛蛵瘫m痰虌虂毯蛶u檀蛺虈虤虁虈蜐蛫虒蛧胎蛵m谈虝虙蜅探蛬蛦蜐挞挞蜁袒态蜋 in less than 2GB;
- it can be animated;
- is more than capable of representing 1:1 any GIF image;
it sucks because the one image viewer I've ever had installed by the ubiquitous (= monopolistic) operating system everyone has by default doesn't support it.
avif is better than it in almost all ways, and jpex xl is even better than that (but not about gifs i think)
webp is essentially a webm file (which is mkv with codec restrictions(vp8/9 and ogg vorbis or opus))
avif is av1 encoded files in a webp like container (but not webm afaik)
jpeg xl is a format made specifically for images
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Is this a Windows problem I'm too Linux to understand?
Seriously, everything on my computer -- Firefox, Dolphin, Gwenview, GIMP, etc. -- supports webp just fine.
yes, because we just have 1 good libwebp library
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Is this a Windows problem I'm too Linux to understand?
Seriously, everything on my computer -- Firefox, Dolphin, Gwenview, GIMP, etc. -- supports webp just fine.
We of the privileged Linux class.
Yeah, same here. No problem with webp on Linux Mint.
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Look, I was a big fan of HEIF but these days I just want anything better than PNG and fucking JPEG, GIF.
Heif is fucking gargantuan. Gigabit internet would struggle with a wiki gallery of heif
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Look, I was a big fan of HEIF but these days I just want anything better than PNG and fucking JPEG, GIF.
What's wrong with png?
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What's wrong with png?
It produces huge files compared to more modern lossless formats.
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Heif is fucking gargantuan. Gigabit internet would struggle with a wiki gallery of heif
Compared to what? Surely you鈥檙e not comparing it to older formats it鈥檚 meant to replace?
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Webp is the worst format ever.
Never mind that:
- it supports transparency;
- it can be losslessly OR lossfully compressed;
- it's so efficient it can fit y谭虈蛝虖處虥虈蜏o谭蛠虇虓虗蜐蜏碳贪坛坦台u谭虊蛣蛪瘫袒踏态摊r谈虙抬 谈虁虖蛢虩蛨台坛蛵瘫m痰虌虂毯蛶u檀蛺虈虤虁虈蜐蛫虒蛧胎蛵m谈虝虙蜅探蛬蛦蜐挞挞蜁袒态蜋 in less than 2GB;
- it can be animated;
- is more than capable of representing 1:1 any GIF image;
it sucks because the one image viewer I've ever had installed by the ubiquitous (= monopolistic) operating system everyone has by default doesn't support it.
and with very few exceptions i've run across, it's also (intentionally or not) configured to produce shit-tier quality output by pretty much everyone implementing it at any sort of scale.
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I just hate webp because it鈥檚 supported in a grand total of 2 programs so it鈥檚 just annoying to deal with
Is this a matter of time, or do most programs never plan to add support?
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Webp is the worst format ever.
Never mind that:
- it supports transparency;
- it can be losslessly OR lossfully compressed;
- it's so efficient it can fit y谭虈蛝虖處虥虈蜏o谭蛠虇虓虗蜐蜏碳贪坛坦台u谭虊蛣蛪瘫袒踏态摊r谈虙抬 谈虁虖蛢虩蛨台坛蛵瘫m痰虌虂毯蛶u檀蛺虈虤虁虈蜐蛫虒蛧胎蛵m谈虝虙蜅探蛬蛦蜐挞挞蜁袒态蜋 in less than 2GB;
- it can be animated;
- is more than capable of representing 1:1 any GIF image;
it sucks because the one image viewer I've ever had installed by the ubiquitous (= monopolistic) operating system everyone has by default doesn't support it.
Is this the only drawback though? Genuinely curious
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Compared to what? Surely you鈥檙e not comparing it to older formats it鈥檚 meant to replace?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I certainly was until I remembered that I misremembered what heif stood for. My b
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I kept a copy of the old Windows XP version of media viewer/pictute viewer, whatever the hell its generic name was becsuse at some point in, IIRC, Vista, they updated it to some piece of garbage that had an uglier UI, worked slower, had no options for slideshows, and didn't even support shit like animated .gifs.
Even that old ass program can open a .webp image.
