Windows Media Photo?


Microsoft Announces New Photo/Image Format…Windows Media Photo: Digital Photography News

Greeaaat. One more compatibility issue to deal with in 2029 when Microsoft Releases this OS.

Windows VistaMicrosoft has announced a new photo/image format called Windows Media Photo or .wmp. The new format is said to have a higher image quality than the popular .jpg format as well as smaller file size. The new format will ship with the new Windows Vista operating system.

Windows Media Photo Specification
Version 0.9

Windows Media Photo is a new file format for continuous-tone still images that surpasses the limitations of existing image formats. Windows Media Photo supports a wide range of features including:

  • Multiple color formats for display or print
  • Fixed or floating point high dynamic range image encoding
  • Lossless or high quality lossy compression
  • Extremely efficient decoding for multiple resolutions and sub-regions
  • Minimal overhead for format conversion or transformations during decode

Windows Media Photo delivers a lightweight, high-performance algorithm with a small memory footprint that enables practical, in-device encoding and decoding.

Version 0.9 of this specification includes some important revisions, new information, and other minor changes. This is the version of Windows Media Photo that was shipped with Windows Vista and WinFX Runtime Components Beta 2. Future updates to the specification will be posted here when they become available.

More information is available here and here.


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