.FLIF File Extension
- Category: Raster Image Files
What are .FLIF files and how to open them?
Can't open .FLIF file? Are you wondering what it contains? On our site we will explain to you what this file is, what it is used for and what software opens the .FLIF file.What is a .FLIF file extension?
.FLIF file extension has been classified as Raster Image Files.
.FLIF is Free Lossless Image Format File
A FLIF file is an image saved in the Free Lossless Image Format (FLIF). It contains an image or animation and uses lossless compression. FLIF files are used to store a variety of images such as photographs, geographical maps, and medical images.
FLIF is an alternative to PNG, WebP, JPEG2000, JPEG-LS, lossless JPEG XR, MNG, APNG, GIF, and lossless BPG formats and boasts a better compression ratio. The format supports RGB, RGBA, and grayscale with a color depth of 1 to 16 bits per channel.
The FLIF format is made up of 4 parts:
- Main header - Contains metadata about the image, such as the height, width, depth, and number of frames.
- Optional metadata chunks - Contains non-pixel data, which includes an ICC color profile, encoded with DEFLATE compression.
- Second header - Contains information detailing how the pixel data is encoded.
- Pixel data - Contains pixel information encoded with MANIAC entropy coding.
More information about the format can be found here.
NOTE: The FLIF format was originally released in October of 2015 as an alpha release. The first stable version was released in September 2016.
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