Is it possible to view WebP images in nautilus / photo program?

Question

I've converted some images from jpeg to google's WebP image format, which reduces my images' size by about 90%!

The big problem is that WebP images can only be viewed with a web browser, not with nautilus (the thumbnails) and/or any photo program at all. It seems that at this moment there is only a codec for Windows.

Does anyone know if this is also possible in Ubuntu?

Update: I've posted a bug report here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659291 — Kapé, Sep 23 '11 at 14:53
Is this old ? Actually the last version is 0.2 for cwebp in WebP Project. — glococo, Sep 01 '12 at 15:09

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 21 '21 at 05:52

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Up to 14.04

There is a plugin for the GIMP, written by Nathan Osman.

You can add this plugin from his webptools PPA:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:george-edison55/webp

Then install the required package: gimp-webp

sudo apt-get install gimp-webp

As for thumbnails in nautilus, this seems to be a bug with MIME, as apparently (so I was told) Nautilus already "supports" the webp format, but the thumbnails do not show up as they should.

edited Jun 21 '21 at 05:52

Pablo Bianchi

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answered Sep 14 '11 at 21:33

RolandiXor

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Thanks for the info, I did not know that there was a ppa for that. I installed it and there are indeed no thumbnails in Nautilus.
As for the thumbnails: that's the most annoying part. I hope this will be solved soon so I can use WebP properly. Now it's still hard to use if you have to open image by image in the web browser...
– Kapé Sep 17 '11 at 13:37
there seems to have no package for 14.04? any idea if an older may work? – Aquarius Power Aug 11 '14 at 21:10
I tried this method to try to create the thumbnail manually but nautilus ignored the the thumbnail I created for the '.webp', could you give it a try? a bit help on it: dwebp filename.webp -o "$HOME/.cache/thumbnails/normal/md5summedResult.png" -scale 100 100 – Aquarius Power Aug 11 '14 at 22:06
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@AquariusPower packages have now been updated for 14.04. – Nathan Osman Jun 07 '15 at 06:34

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 19 '16 at 16:31

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Since 16.04

display image.webp

or for thumbnails

display 'vid:*.webp'

Imagemagick does support webp now, although it uses webp, so you need to install webp

sudo apt-get install webp

answered Jun 19 '16 at 16:31

Janghou

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score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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Since 14.04 [universe] there is the vwebp command in the webp package:

sudo apt install webp

Then:

vwebp imagefile.webp

To get thumbnails in Nautilus see this answer (like Aquarius Power said above).

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

Community

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answered Jul 10 '16 at 12:36

Nikolai R Kristiansen

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Is it possible to view WebP images in nautilus / photo program?

3 Answers3

Up to 14.04

Since 16.04