From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: Request to include webp support in ffmpeg
To: Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:29:58 +0000

On 2025/03/19 19:55, Jan Stary wrote:
> > > The libwebp wrapper is only an encoder
> 
> Is there a webp decoder available please?

already present in FFmpeg.

ftp https://www.learningcontainer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Large-Sample-webp-Image-download-for-Testing.webp
ffplay Large-Sample-webp-Image-download-for-Testing.webp

> Many videos on e.g. youtube tend to be webp.

youtube, really? do you have an example? that's unexpected for a
standard video hosting site as it's mostly a static image format (there
are some webp animations but it's more like animated gif than something
suitable for normal videos). (they do use it a lot for thumbnails afaik
though).