| # WebP Codec |
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| WebP codec is a library to encode and decode images in WebP format. This package |
| contains the library that can be used in other programs to add WebP support, as |
| well as the command line tools 'cwebp' and 'dwebp' to compress and decompress |
| images respectively. |
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| See https://developers.google.com/speed/webp for details on the image format. |
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| The latest source tree is available at |
| https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebp |
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| It is released under the same license as the WebM project. See |
| https://www.webmproject.org/license/software/ or the "COPYING" file for details. |
| An additional intellectual property rights grant can be found in the file |
| PATENTS. |
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| ## Building |
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| See the [building documentation](doc/building.md). |
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| ## Encoding and Decoding Tools |
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| The examples/ directory contains tools to encode and decode images and |
| animations, view information about WebP images, and more. See the |
| [tools documentation](doc/tools.md). |
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| ## APIs |
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| See the [APIs documentation](doc/api.md), and API usage examples in the |
| `examples/` directory. |
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| ## Bugs |
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| Please report all bugs to the issue tracker: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webp |
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| Patches welcome! See [how to contribute](CONTRIBUTING.md). |
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| ## Discuss |
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| Email: webp-discuss@webmproject.org |
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| Web: https://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/group/webp-discuss |
