Exiftool to remove RIFF headers from WEBP images

[rthakor5]

Hello,

I was wondering if there is any Exiftool support for stripping RIFF chunk headers from WEBP images. I am having issue writing to RIFF based file formats and wanted to know if there is a way to remove RIFF containers from WEBP images using Exiftool commands.

Thank you in advance!

[Phil Harvey]

The WebP file format uses a RIFF container.  I don't know if there is an uncontained format for WebP (like there is for JXL), so I don't think you can remove these headers and still have a valid file.

- Phil

[rthakor5]

Hi Phil, thank you for your response!

Does Exiftool have any plans to support writing for RIFF files?

I have a java project in which I am using Exiftool to create a metadata stripping mechanism and wanted to be able to support WEBP files.

Thank you again!

[Phil Harvey]

ExifTool does support writing WebP.  See the supported files list.

- Phil

[rthakor5]

Interesting...

When I run the following command:

exiftool -v -gps:all= test.webp -o test-stripped.webp

I get the error:

Can't write RIFF files

[StarGeek]

Upgrade to version 12.46 or higher.

[rthakor5]

I have version 12.50

[Phil Harvey]

Oops.  If forget to add webp to the extension check of the -o option.  I'll fix this in the next release, but until then use -o test-stripped.%e instead of -o test-stripped.webp

Thanks for reporting this.

- Phil