What is the difference between .jp2 and .jng?
- Extension
- .jp2
- .jng
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Joint Photographic Experts Group
- Mozilla Corporation
- Description
- A JP2 file is a compressed bitmap image created using JPEG 2000 Core Coding. It incorporates a wavelet compression algorithm instead of Digital Cosine Transform (DCT) compression, which is used by standard JPEG images. JP2 files can be stored using lossy and lossless compression.
- Image file format related to the .PNG format, but uses lossy compression like standard .JPG files; developed as a sub-format for .MNG objects, but can also be used as a standalone raster image format.
- MIME Type
- image/jp2
- image/x-jng
- Sample
- sample.jp2
- sample.jng
- Wikipedia
- .jp2 on Wikipedia
- .jng on Wikipedia