1# WebP Codec 2 3``` 4 __ __ ____ ____ ____ 5 / \\/ \/ _ \/ _ )/ _ \ 6 \ / __/ _ \ __/ 7 \__\__/\____/\_____/__/ ____ ___ 8 / _/ / \ \ / _ \/ _/ 9 / \_/ / / \ \ __/ \__ 10 \____/____/\_____/_____/____/v1.4.0 11``` 12 13WebP codec is a library to encode and decode images in WebP format. This package 14contains the library that can be used in other programs to add WebP support, as 15well as the command line tools 'cwebp' and 'dwebp' to compress and decompress 16images respectively. 17 18See https://developers.google.com/speed/webp for details on the image format. 19 20The latest source tree is available at 21https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebp 22 23It is released under the same license as the WebM project. See 24https://www.webmproject.org/license/software/ or the "COPYING" file for details. 25An additional intellectual property rights grant can be found in the file 26PATENTS. 27 28## Building 29 30See the [building documentation](doc/building.md). 31 32## Encoding and Decoding Tools 33 34The examples/ directory contains tools to encode and decode images and 35animations, view information about WebP images, and more. See the 36[tools documentation](doc/tools.md). 37 38## APIs 39 40See the [APIs documentation](doc/api.md), and API usage examples in the 41`examples/` directory. 42 43## Bugs 44 45Please report all bugs to the issue tracker: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webp 46 47Patches welcome! See [how to contribute](CONTRIBUTING.md). 48 49## Discuss 50 51Email: [email protected] 52 53Web: https://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/group/webp-discuss 54