Comments (2)
Support for out-of-the-box WIC codecs seems reasonable on the face of it, but
if you were going to have to download a non-free codec pack to make it useful,
you might just as well download FreeImage, since the support's already there.
So the question is whether the image file formats are supported out of the box
with WIC are significantly larger than those built-in to stb-imv. Your links
don't offer any info about built-in codecs that I saw. The codecs mentioned in
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=32 are
basically covered by stb_image and GDI+.
I'm also not to worried about stability issues with GDI+ since I've never had
any bugs or complaints about them. (My link does mention that WIC is "more
secure", though. I'm a little confused about why they wouldn't fix any security
issues in GDI+.)
So I'm tentatively closing this--feel free to comment and I'll reopen it (I
actually want to, say, leave it open for two weeks and then close it, but
google code doesn't offer any automated mechanism for that).
Original comment by [email protected]
on 22 Mar 2012 at 1:50
- Changed state: WontImplement
- Added labels: Type-Enhancement, Security, Priority-Lowest
from stb-imv.
I admit that I'm owner of the paid FastPictureViewer WIC codec pack and a sad
owner indeed, because my current SW of choice - Picasa Viewer - doesn't support
WIC codecs. I aim at replacing it with stb-imv probably at some point in time
because of broader format support. I proposed this feature because WIC
framework seems more present than FreeImage on average computers.
The same link containing the "more secure" note was opened in my browser when
creating this issue, thus I did the paraphrase of the original GDI+ issue.
The original WIC implementation ships with support of JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG,
BMP, HD Photo and .ICO formats [1][2]. On a very brief search I also found some
other free codec packs, one even being provided by Microsoft, these usually add
RAW format support [3][4]. In [4] there is also said that WIC is present in
Windows since XP SP3, which I cannot (dis)prove.
The answer to your ultimate question is that there is no significant increase
in amount of supported codecs from vanilla stb-imv to WIC as of now.
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Imaging_Component
2:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/gg430027(v=vs.85).aspx
3: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ice/codecs.htm
4: http://www.photools.com/1167/wic-support-codec-availability/
Original comment by [email protected]
on 22 Mar 2012 at 4:19
from stb-imv.
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