List of Image Formats Supported by OpenCV

Below is the list of supported image formats in OpenCV. You should note that if you build OpenCV yourself you have the option to remove support for some of the types but out of the box OpenCV supports the following:

  • Windows bitmap (bmp)
  • Portable image formats (pbm, pgm, ppm)
  • Sun raster (sr, ras)
  • JPEG (jpeg, jpg, jpe)
  • JPEG 2000 (jp2)
  • TIFF files (tiff, tif)
  • Portable network graphics (png)


How to enumerate installed Windows Media Codecs in Qt

To get a list of all available Windows Media Codecs in Qt you have no other choice but to use C++ interfaces from Windows Media Format SDK. In this post I am sharing an example source code which allows you to do that in Qt. If you are developing using Qt and MSVC compilers for Windows then  you can definitely download this source code, build and run it for yourself.

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