What is the difference between .ras and .bpg?
- Extension
- .ras
- .bpg
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Sun
- Fabrice Bellard
- Description
- Originally used on the Sun Microsystems computers, RAS is a raster image format that displays bitmap images. It is popularly used for specific types of research projects and it can be developed in Unix OS as well. It supports 1 and 32-bits per pixel and used RLE compression codec.
- 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-cmu-raster
- image/x-bpg
- Sample
- sample.bpg
- Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia
- .bpg on Wikipedia