Format
Better Portable Graphics
Summary
- Name
- Better Portable Graphics
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/687
- Format type
- Image (Raster)
- Description
- Better Portable Graphics (BPG) is a raster image format created by Fabrice Bellard. It is intended as a compression-efficient alternative to the JPEG image format. It is based on the intra-frame encoding of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) video compression standard, and various metadata profiles (such as EXIF, ICC profile, XMP) are supported.
- File extensions
-
bpg - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
Better Portable Graphics
- Description
- BOF: BPGû
- Provenance
- http://bellard.org/bpg/bpg_spec.txt
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
425047FB- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V81
- Release date
- 18 February 2015
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Added format
Better Portable Graphics: Full entry added.
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Added signature
Better Portable Graphics: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.