What is the difference between .tim and .jp2?
- Extension
- .tim
- .jp2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Sony
- Joint Photographic Experts Group
- Description
- Commonly found on PlayStation game consoles as it's used to develop the game software. TIM contains standard RGBA with transparency levels as well as 4,8,16,24, and 32 -bit color. An example of a game that used .tim is the GTA game series.
- 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.
- MIME Type
- image/vnd.ptnet.tim
- image/jp2
- Sample
- sample.jp2
- Wikipedia
- .jp2 on Wikipedia