Can't open .webp files

[Guillermo Lo Coco]

Please, add webp support.

[Misaki (myjunkmail311006)]

The bug for libwebp seems to be Bug #1407644. Should one of these bugs be marked as a duplicate and the other project added to the list of affected projects?

I notice that ffmpeg (possibly with the right compile options) can open .webp files, and ffmpeg uses the GNU General Public License version 2+ though that particular decoder might not.

eog also seems to use the GNU General Public License version 2+.

The other bug report says that using a gdk-pixbuf loader is the right way to extend support, but in the meantime, could eog just use code from ffmpeg, or even ffmpeg directly? (Imagemagick, for example, uses ffmpeg to open video files.) It seems that having a poor solution may be better than having no solution, if there is currently no motivation to implement the 'correct' solution.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

See also bug 1864215 (Please add webp loader to gdk-pixbuf)

[Ciro Santilli 六四事件 法轮功 (cirosantilli)]

These are the upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700751 | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/eog/-/issues/45

[dinamic (dinamic6661)]

WEBP is everywhere in 2021. please add support for WEBP

[Marcos Alano (mhalano)]

There is available code to fix that. Someone could package so we can get it working in Jammy? I think it's quite important since it's a 5-years long release.
Here is the code:
https://github.com/aruiz/webp-pixbuf-loader

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package eog - 43~beta-1ubuntu2

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eog (43~beta-1ubuntu2) kinetic; urgency=medium

  * Revert changes temporarily disabling webp support (LP: #1318327)
    (LP: #1979121)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:03:25 -0400