# WebP Format Support **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [September 20, 2016, 5:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/webp-format-support/159511 "2016-09-20T17:25:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![johnnyrokkit](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/johnnyrokkit/32/8828_2.png) [@johnnyrokkit](https://forums.plex.tv/u/johnnyrokkit)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 5:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/webp-format-support/159511/1 "2016-09-20T17:25:13Z")
Seeing increased use of the WebP format, and would like to see native support for this in Plex. More information on WebP can be found [here](https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/ "here") and [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP "here"). Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Rachel\_and\_Jay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/rachel_and_jay/32/86447_2.png) [@Rachel\_and\_Jay](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Rachel_and_Jay)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/webp-format-support/159511/2 "2020-09-01T17:10:38Z")
Would like to see webp image format support added to Plex. The significantly smaller file sizes than JPG and PNG could even improve performance of Plex. ---
**Author:** ![Volts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a5b964/32.png) [@Volts](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Volts)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/webp-format-support/159511/3 "2020-09-01T17:24:01Z")
Do you store media as webp today? I’m curious about your use case. I’ve never seen anybody use it except as a web delivery optimization layer. ---
**Author:** ![Rachel\_and\_Jay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/rachel_and_jay/32/86447_2.png) [@Rachel\_and\_Jay](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Rachel_and_Jay)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/webp-format-support/159511/4 "2020-09-22T16:37:42Z")
Now that support has arrived to Apple devices I have, yes. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 2:46am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/webp-format-support/159511/5 "2021-02-28T02:46:30Z")
**Mod-Edit:** merged those 2 threads to avoid further duplication of requests ---
**Author:** ![JopoJP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@JopoJP](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JopoJP)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/webp-format-support/159511/6 "2019-06-29T12:46:54Z")
Plex already supports WebP but it is missing in the Local Media Assets as an allowed extension. [https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220677-local-media-assets-movies/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220677-local-media-assets-movies/) Would be great. I save all my posters, cover in webp for many reasons. All my devices support webp and i already save them manually as webp. You can already upload webp images as cover etc just the missing option to fetch from Local Media Assets agent is missing. EDIT: Workaround is to just simply rename .webp to .jpg. It works but could have negative effects how plex could handle this image. ---
**Author:** ![mrrobotoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mrrobotoo](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mrrobotoo)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 8:30am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/webp-format-support/159511/7 "2021-02-21T08:30:35Z")
agree but not just for image also vids, I have a ton in my misc clips that are webp videos and none will play on plex even though they work fine in any browser or vlc. ---
**Author:** ![jayyoung1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@jayyoung1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jayyoung1)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/webp-format-support/159511/8 "2023-08-22T23:17:32Z")
2023, still not support webp format in local media assets. I have music album cover embed, the jpg file version shows correctly, but not the webp version, so Plex instead shows the artist cover. So it will never update for the feature, Plex? ![无标题](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/0/6/1/061a9e23b5fd33c190776bc67b8571b055989fb9.png)