What is the difference between .tim and .vips?
- Name
- PSX TIM
- VIPS Image
- Extension
- .tim
- .vips
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Sony
- VIPS (Visual Information Processing System)
- 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.
- VIPS is a libvips file format mainly used for calculations, but it can also store images. The main advantage is that it has no size limit; it's fast and straightforward. Nonetheless, most applications can't view it, so converting it to a more popular format is the only way to work around it.
- MIME Type
- image/vnd.ptnet.tim
- image/vnd.vips
- Wikipedia
- .vips on Wikipedia