Windows Imaging Component Codec Guidelines for RAW Image Formats
DownloadWindows Imaging Component Codec Guidelines for RAW Image Formats
Windows Imaging Component Codec Guidelines for RAW Image Formats
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The Windows Imaging Component (WIC) provides an extensible framework for working with images and image metadata. WIC makes it possible for software and hardware vendors to develop codecs so that their own image formats can obtain the same platform support as native image formats such as tagged image file format (TIFF), Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), or Windows Media Photo.
This paper provides guidelines to help RAW format manufacturers in their development of WIC codecs.
This information applies for the following operating systems:
Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows XP
Included in this white paper:
| • | Feature Completeness: Recommended Interfaces |
| • | Required Methods on Each Interface |
| • | Metadata Support |
| • | Support for IWICDevelopRaw |
| • | Implementation Guidelines for Serializing IWICDevelopRaw Settings |
| • | Performance |
| • | High Dynamic Range Pixel Formats |
| • | Thumbnails and Previews |
| • | Reliability and Security |
| • | Codec Availability and Platform Support |
| • | Minimum RAW Codec Requirements for Windows Vista |
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