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 "id": "bpg",
 "name": "BPG",
 "category": "image",
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   "bpg"
  ],
  "mime": [
   "image/bpg",
   "image/x-bpg"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/687"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q18640977"
  ],
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   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "425047fb",
    "notes": "Better Portable Graphics"
   }
  ],
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   {
    "name": "Better Portable Graphics",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "425047fb"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "readable",
 "summary": "Better Portable Graphics (BPG) is a raster image format created by Fabrice Bellard. It is intended as a compression-efficient alternative to the JPEG image format. It is based on the intra-frame encoding of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) video compression standard, and various metadata profiles (such as EXIF, ICC profile, XMP) are supported.",
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   "name": "Abydos",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133445760",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU Lesser General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Apache Tika",
   "url": "https://tika.apache.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "Apache Software License 2.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "ExifTool",
   "url": "https://exiftool.org/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "Artistic License / GNU General Public License, version 1.0 or later",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Konvertor",
   "url": "http://www.logipole.com/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "PhotoRec",
   "url": "http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Q1047199",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "ImageMagick License",
   "open_source": true
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/BPG",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/687",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/687",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q18640977",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18640977",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
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  "sources": [
   "ffw",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}