webP, VP8, Skia and LiveCode

[Richmond]

On 18/04/14 18:38, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
> Interesting enough, animated webP supports
> 8 bit transparency (like PNG) and lossy compression
> like JPEG:
>
> http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/chrome-32-beta-animated-webp-images-and.html
>
> Al

It would be interesting to know which (Open Source ???) Image processing 
packages
could open and save the webP and VP8 formats

There's a GIMP plug-in for webP; but locating it, compiling it and so on 
is a major
"f#$%^&*g".

This works for Ubuntu if you like weirding out at the Terminal like it's 
1978:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1809284

Richmond.