What is the difference between .ppm and .bpg?
- Extension
- .ppm
- .bpg
- Format
- Text
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Jef Poskanzer
- Fabrice Bellard
- Description
- A PPM file is a 24-bit color image formatted using a text format. It stores each pixel with a number from 0 to 65536, which specifies the color of the pixel. PPM files also store the image height and width, whitespace data, and the maximum color value.
- Better Portable Graphics (BPG) image format created to replace the JPEG format; provides the same quality as JPEG images but in a smaller file size; supports lossless compression; natively supports 8 to 14 bits per channel.
- MIME Type
- image/x-portable-pixmap
- image/x-bpg
- Sample
- sample.ppm
- sample.bpg
- Wikipedia
- .ppm on Wikipedia
- .bpg on Wikipedia