Java Exception: New BMP version not implemented yet

Question

I converted image with help of GIMP to RGB565. Now I want to read this bmp-image in java:

BufferedImage bufImg = ImageIO.read(imagePathFile);

but it throws exception:

java.lang.RuntimeException: New BMP version not implemented yet

What should I do to read this image?

Answer 1

You could try JAI or Apache Sanselan .

Note that JAI requires some native libraries to be plugged into the JVM whereas Sanselan won't read JPEG images and thus requires you to fall back to ImageIO or even JPEGImageDecoder for those.