NextGen Gallery and BPG format?

@hfigarella – You are more than welcome to suggest this as a Feature Request item here: https://nextgen-gallery.com/feature-voting/ but at this time we do not have any specific plans or a timeline to add additional image formats.

Thanks!

– Cais.

Once you understand this, you will be convinced like me:

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/195856-bpg-a-new-superior-image-format-that-really-ought-to-kill-off-jpeg

Short for Better Portable Graphics, BPG offers around the same image quality as JPEG, but at half the file size. To perform such witchcraft, BPG simply uses a newer codec — x265, the open-source implementation of HEVC/H.265.

I have converted all my videos to HEVC/H.265 (same quality, half the size). The future for some, the present for me. https://x265.org/hevc-h265/

I want to do the same with my 65,000+ photos. 10,000 of them are on my web site at 1920×1080. I just imagine how much faster my pages will open when showing my photo galleries with half the size and the same quality using BPG.

I’ll be waiting for BPG support on WordPress. If it is NextGen Gallery fine; otherwise my purpose is to be able to show the same quality photos in half the size.

@hfigarella – Our Feature Request page helps us to determine what the community is looking for in NextGEN Gallery et al. and that is still the best place to put this forward at.

Thanks!

– Cais.