Convert DDS
DirectDraw surface. Common for game textures. Decode only. Every pair below runs in the browser. The file is not uploaded. Video and audio use FFmpeg in WebAssembly, fetched from this origin once, about 30 MB, then cached by the service worker. The clip itself is not part of that download.
This hub is the index, not the workbench. Each conversion is its own URL so a search for “DDS to something” can land on a page that only does that job. The file picker on those pages expects DDS when you are leaving this format, or produces DDS when you are arriving. A generic dropdown still exists under Video convert and Audio convert if you would rather pick the destination after you drop the file.
You can check the same way on every pair: open the network panel, drop a DDS file, convert it. You should see this origin. You shouldn't see a POST of the file. Google Analytics, if it's on, is page views, not your DDS bytes. If a tool needs a server, it isn't on this site.
This site can read it. Encode is not offered. Engine: ffmpeg.
Convert from DDS
- DDS to JPGThe usual photographic JPEG. No transparency.
- DDS to PNGLossless stills, including transparency.
- DDS to WebPA smaller web still that can keep transparency.
- DDS to AVIFOften smaller than WebP at the same viewing size.
- DDS to BMPUncompressed bitmap. Huge, simple, still used in scanning.
- DDS to ICOWindows icon file. Written here as a single PNG-in-ICO.
- DDS to TIFFCommon in scanning and print. Decoded and written in this tab.
- DDS to TGATarga stills. Handled through the same local FFmpeg build as video.
- DDS to PPMNetpbm colour pixmap. Useful for pipelines and old UNIX tools.
- DDS to PGMNetpbm greyscale. Same local encoder path as PPM.
- DDS to PBMNetpbm 1-bit bitmap.
Convert to DDS
I do not write DDS. The hub exists so you can see what I will decode instead of promising an encoder I do not have.
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