.JP2

Not to be confused with .jpg or .jp2

MIME type: image/JP2

Is binary? Yes

Is encrypted? Unknown

Can execute dangerous code? No

Related extensions: .j2k .jpf .jpm .jpg2 .j2c .jpc .jpx .mj2

Internet Media types: image/JP2 image/jpx image/jpm video/mj2

Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) public.jpeg-2000

Magic number 00 00 00 0C 6A 50 20 20 0D 0A 87 0A / FF 4F FF 51

.JP2 is an uncommon file format. It is part of the JPEG family of image formats. Below are some definitions for the extension.

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Operating system: Any (MS-DOS, DR-DOS, Windows, Windows 9x, Windows NT, Linux, GNU/Linux, Classic MacOS, MacOS, MacOS X, OS X, iOS, Android, ChromiumOS, ChromeOS, OS/2, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, etc.)

To view the file, you will need an image viewer compatible with the JP2 image format. Some examples include:

Eye of GNOME (GNOME, Linux)

GNOME Image viewer (GNOME, Linux)

Gwenview (KDE, Linux, Windows)

QuickTime Player (Windows NT, Mac OS X, MacOS 11, MacOS 12

Other? Unknown

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Definition 1: JPEG 2000 image file

JPEG 2000 (JP2) is an image compression standard and coding system. It was developed from 1997 to 2000 by a Joint Photographic Experts Group committee chaired by Touradj Ebrahimi (later the JPEG president), with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform (DCT) based JPEG standard (created in 1992) with a newly designed, wavelet-based method. The standardized filename extension is .JP2 for ISO/IEC 15444-1 conforming files and .jpx for the extended part-2 specifications, published as ISO/IEC 15444-2. The registered MIME types are defined in RFC 3745. For ISO/IEC 15444-1 it is image/JP2.

JPEG 2000 code streams are regions of interest that offer several mechanisms to support spatial random access or region of interest access at varying degrees of granularity. It is possible to store different parts of the same picture using different quality.

JPEG 2000 is a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) based compression standard that could be adapted for motion imaging video compression with the Motion JPEG 2000 extension. JPEG 2000 technology was selected as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004.

Definition 2: Pseudo-extension

A pseudo-extension is a file format that is applied to a file, despite not having a purpose, other than to change the file name (such as JAPAN2.JP2) however this file extension is rarely used as a pseudo-extension

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Usage

JP2 images are commonly used in eBooks

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Opens with: Gedit, Notepad++ (GNU/Linux) Notepad, Notepad++ (Windows) ???, Notepad++ (MacOS) ???, Notepad++ (BSD) HTML Viewer (Android) ??? (iOS/iPadOS/iPhoneOS) ??? (OS/2) ??? (MS-DOS) ??? (DR-DOS) ??? (Solaris) etc.

Shebang? Yes, 00 00 00 0C 6A 50 20 20 0D 0A 87 0A / FF 4F FF 51

Encoding: Any (commonly ASCII)

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