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diff --git a/libraries/libbpg/README b/libraries/libbpg/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d5aa204430 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/libbpg/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Better Portable Grapgics is a new image format to +replace JPEG when quality or size is an issue. It +has high compression ratio and supported by most web +browsers with small javascript decoder.It is based on +the subset of HEVC Open Video Compression Standard. + +An HTML demonstration is available +in /usr/doc/libbpg-0e2aadb_20180428/html/index.html +you can access it by using the Falkon web browser or +using chrome with --allow-file-access-from-files option + +The BPG file format is specified in +/usr/doc/libbpg-0e2aadb_20180428/doc/bpg_spec.txt. + +This is an optional dependency for VLC media player. +It is supported only on 64-bit platforms only. |