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14-540: BEYE, also known as Binary EYE, BIEW, Binary View is a multiplatform portable viewer of binary files with a built-in editor that functions in binary, hexadecimal, and disassembler modes. It uses native Intel syntax for disassembly. Features include AVR / Java / x86 - i386 - AMD64 / ARM - XScale / PPC64 disassemblers, a Russian code pages converter, and a code navigator. It can also fully preview MZ , NE , PE , NLM , COFF 32, and ELF formats, and partially preview a.out , LE and LX , and Phar Lap formats. BEYE

28-561: A media file viewer's capability to read and represent media file data. Some media editors, such as Audacity , allow users to open most files as "raw data." This has been used by artists to make glitch art . Some file viewers are filters that translate binary files into plain text (e.g., antiword ). However some information may be lost depending on the translating routines. Image viewers display graphic files on screen. Some viewers, such as IrfanView , can read multiple graphic file formats , while others, such as JPEGview only support

42-678: A single format. Common image viewer features include thumbnail preview and creation, image zooming and rotation, color balance and gamma correction, resizing, etc. A web browser is a type of file viewer that renders HTML markup into a human-friendly presentation. Although HTML is stored in plain text files, viewing an HTML file in a browser and in a text editor produces significantly different results. Web browsers may also view multimedia files such as images , videos , preformatted documents, interactive environments, 3D models , augmented reality and virtual reality applets. IrfanView IrfanView ( / ˈ ɪər f æ n v j uː / )

56-739: A wide variety of image formats. In a series of image quality tests conducted in 2004, compared with commercial image compressors and Adobe Photoshop 7, Irfanview 3.91 produced "consistently better images than the Adobe Photoshop JPEG encoder at the same data rate", and its JPEG2000 compression quality "closely followed" the best codec, JasPer ." According to IrfanView's official website, since 2003, IrfanView has been downloaded over 1 million times per month. One independent review in 2017 described Irfanview, as "the Swiss Army Knife of image viewers". Irfan Škiljan graduated from

70-430: Is an image viewer , editor, organiser and converter program for Microsoft Windows . It can also play video and audio files, and has some image creation and painting capabilities. IrfanView is free for non-commercial use; commercial use requires paid registration. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats. It was first released in 1996. IrfanView

84-712: Is named after its creator, Irfan Škiljan, from Jajce , Bosnia and Herzegovina , living in Vienna . The current version of IrfanView, 4.67, works under all versions of Windows from Windows XP to Windows 11 . Version 4.44 and older versions were compatible with Windows 95 / 98 / Me and can also be run in Linux under Wine and in macOS using WineBottler . IrfanView is specifically optimized for fast image display and loading times. It supports viewing and saving of numerous file types including image formats such as BMP , GIF , JPEG , JP2 & JPM (JPEG2000), PNG (includes

98-452: Is required to create .PDF files, but Acrobat Reader supports viewing of .PDF files. A file format must have structural information that allows a file viewer to handle different byte orders , code pages or newline styles. In contrast, media file viewers, such as video player applications , may initially support few, if any, file formats . Media file viewers instead rely on video codecs to play various media, allowing users to expand

112-487: The Vienna University of Technology . In a 2006 interview, then 32-year-old Škiljan said that he was able to more or less live off the software, generating income with the sale of licenses for commercial users and of special versions for different customers. The author claims that the software is pronounced as "EarfanView"; it is named after himself and is an Islamic Arabic name, Irfan . According to Škiljan,

126-495: The Internet, and it was problematic to find information about CPUs. Many programs produced errors, and it was too difficult to understand the source of the problems. After spending a long time trying to understand the causes of the defects in his programs, the developers of BEYE coded their disassembler. Perhaps the needs of the creators couldn't have been covered by existing disassemblers, and so he wrote his own. Initially, BEYE

140-503: The following categories: The difference in file viewers' functionality initially resulted from how proprietary file formats were licensed. While all file formats can be read freely, some software licenses allow only the licensor to create and modify files. For example, the database software DBASE used a proprietary algorithm for creating .DBF files, but Norton Commander had a built-in viewer for .DBF files. A software application such as Adobe Photoshop , LibreOffice , or Microsoft Word

154-1204: The optimizer OptiPNG ; APNG can be read), TIFF , raw photo formats from digital cameras, ECW (Enhanced Compressed Wavelet), EMF (Enhanced Windows Metafile), FSH (EA Sports format), ICO (Windows icon), PCX (Zsoft Paintbrush), PBM (Portable BitMap), PDF (Portable Document Format), PGM (Portable GrayMap), PPM (Portable PixelMap), TGA (Truevision Targa), WebP , FLIF (Free Lossless Image Format) and viewing of media files such as Flash , Ogg , Vorbis , MPEG , MP3 , MIDI , and text files . Image editing includes crop, resize, and rotate. Images can be adjusted by modifying their brightness , contrast , tint , and gamma level manually or automatically, and by converting them between file formats. Many of these changes can be applied to multiple images in one operation using batch processing . A plugin allows IrfanView to support lossless JPG operations : horizontal or vertical flip, rotation by 90° increments, and cropping . IrfanView uses plugins to handle several additional images, video, and sound formats and to add optional functionality such as filter processing or other program features. With its diverse set of format plugins,

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168-651: The program has been recommended for viewing obscure image formats, or corrupted files, which commercial photo editing software cannot read. Prior to version 4.41 installer versions of IrfanView supported a number of browser toolbars . Version 4.40 optionally installed the Amazon 1Button App (formerly the Amazon Browser bar). Irfanview has been positively reviewed as "really good" for easily and rapidly viewing and manipulating images, with its editing and drawing tools. Other writers have focused on its ability to open

182-469: Was closed-source, but friends helped to improve the project with new ideas and in some cases with new code. Later, after purchasing a modem, Nickols and Andrew decided to release the source and publish BEYE on the Internet. In 2000, the sources were published at SourceForge . Beye no longer works in Windows 11 . BEYE's features include: File viewer File viewer applications can be split into

196-624: Was developed in 1994 by Nickols Kurshev and Andrew Golovnia under the name "View". In February of 2010 the program was renamed to BEYE, even though poll votes were mostly against its rename. BEYE's creators stated, that the previous name had some negative associations in English, and the new one doesn't conflict with other projects. At that time, compilers were not able to create highly optimized executables, and CPUs were not as efficient, which caused many programmers to code in assembly language . Many countries, including Russia, had poor accessibility to

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