- Extension
- .vips
- .jp2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- VIPS (Visual Information Processing System)
- Joint Photographic Experts Group
- Description
- 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.
- 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.vips
- image/jp2
