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Alexander Filёv
Asked: 2014-11-01 17:29:49 +0800 CST

Which image-viewers in linux support the `webp` image format?

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Is there any way to see webp photo from Thunar with Xfce DE? There was a similar question, but it was about nautilus.

Then to get webp thumbnails tumbler (the Xfce thumbnailing service) must support, and there nothing.

Then to open pictures the viewer must know webp.

I tried ristretto, gpicview, viewnior and they all say something like:

error of interpretation of the image file format jpeg

xfce

8 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Here are the Linux image-viewers, that display webp images:

    and others from wiki

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  2. If you are looking for GUI applications, consider GIMP or ImageMagick.

    If you have installed the webp package, you could use vwebp file.webp to view the image, and dwebp file.webp -o file.png to convert it to a png file.

    See https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/using for details.

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  3. qview

    Since 2018, there is a really lightweight and user-friendly image viewer called qView that can view WebP images. It also has a nice feature to resize the window frame to fit image. It is also free and open source.

    You can download the latest version (3.0 at the time of writing, and it's still being actively developed) as a .deb file from the official website or github and install it with gdebi or your software center.

    To install from terminal:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jurplel/qview
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get --install-suggests install qview

    After you install the .deb file, you also need to install this package: Qt 5 Image Formats addon

    sudo apt install qt5-image-formats-plugins

    This is because qView is based on Qt5 and even though it supports many common formats by default, it does need this one package to actually view WebP images.

    Note: this addon is pre-installed on Lubuntu and Kubuntu (Qt-based DEs, as expected).

    Tested on Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04; Lubuntu 19.10, 20.04.

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  4. In 16.04

    display 'vid:*.webp'

    Since 16.04 imagemagick does support webp, although it apparently delegates decoding to webp, so webp is needed:

    sudo apt-get install webp
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  5. XNViewMP can view WebP files. Though Tumbler has yet to implement WebP, so the files won't be able to be viewed as thumbnails within Thunar.

    Note that it is a non-free software, although freeware.

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  6. Developed by Google, WebP is a new image format that provides lossless and lossy compression for images on the web.

    You can download a WebP viewer, and other utilities from Google Developers

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  7. gThumb also opens/edits webp files. It has some nice must have quick editing tools.

    sudo apt-get install gthumb

    Version 3.4.3 I know supports webp, but does not support animated webp images.

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  8. You can use the stylish lookin deepin-image-viewer for webp.

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