WIC Codec for ImageGlass

Brings the Windows Imaging Component into ImageGlass as a native codec plugin: every image format your copy of Windows has a codec registered for becomes readable and writable, including JPEG XR (.jxr, .hdp, .wdp), which none of ImageGlass's built-in codecs handle.

Built with Vortice.Win32.Graphics.Imaging and compiled with Native AOT for Windows x64 and ARM64.

Supported Formats

The format list is not hardcoded. At startup the plugin enumerates the WIC component registry, so whatever codecs the machine has – shipped with Windows, installed from the Microsoft Store, or third-party – show up automatically.

On a stock Windows 11 machine with the Store codec extensions installed, that is 66 readable and 20 writable extensions:

Read	.bmp .dib .rle .gif .ico .icon .cur .jpeg .jpe .jpg .jfif .exif .png .tiff .tif .dng .wdp .jxr .hdp .dds .heic .heif .hif .avci .heics .heifs .avcs .avif .avifs .webp .jxl + camera raw (.3fr .ari .arw .bay .cap .cr2 .cr3 .crw .dcs .dcr .drf .eip .erf .fff .iiq .k25 .kdc .mef .mos .mrw .nef .nrw .orf .ori .pef .ptx .pxn .raf .raw .rw2 .rwl .sr2 .srf .srw .x3f)
Write	.bmp .dib .rle .gif .jpeg .jpe .jpg .jfif .exif .png .tiff .tif .wdp .jxr .hdp .dds .heic .heif .hif .jxl

Install

1. Download wic-codec_<version>_win-x64.igplugin.zip (or win-arm64) from Releases.
2. ImageGlass → Settings → Plugins → Add, and pick the .igplugin.zip.
3. Click Trust and enable.

Build

Requires the .NET 10 SDK and the Visual Studio C++ build tools (Native AOT links natively).

# compile only – quick syntax check
dotnet build source/WicCodec.csproj -c Debug -p:Platform=x64

# publish + pack both architectures into dist/wic-codec_<version>_<arch>.igplugin.zip
./pack.ps1

# publish x64 and drop it straight into %LOCALAPPDATA%\ImageGlass\_plugins
./pack.ps1 -Rid win-x64 -Deploy

License

MIT. See LICENSE.