RLE Editor?

[reilus]

I noticed that nobody could find an rle editor. I found a few, but none of them work. These two promised to read the images and didn't do anything but show black screens.... WTF???

IvanView - RLE Viewer, Browser, Editor, Converter

Redmoon RLE Graphics Editor Completed - RaGEZONE forums -

 

[Prime85]

I noticed that nobody could find an rle editor. I found a few, but none of them work. These two promised to read the images and didn't do anything but show black screens.... WTF???

IvanView - RLE Viewer, Browser, Editor, Converter

Redmoon RLE Graphics Editor Completed - RaGEZONE forums -

i tried a bunch of them that promised to read/edit rle files. i tried everyone i could find from windows and linux and nothing worked.

 

[reilus]

same here

i tried a bunch of them that promised to read/edit rle files. i tried everyone i could find from windows and linux and nothing worked.

 

[Codifex Maximus]

I did some research and it seems that RLE is Run Length Encoding.

Essentially RLE is a compression algorithm that is usually used on DIB (Device Independent Bitmaps of 8 bit color pixels) file. RLE can be implemented in a number of ways but the encoder and decoder must be able to work together. Probably the decoder in the DROID uses a specific method that the encoder must encode for. They must match.

To implement an encoder/decoder pair, one might inspect a valid rle file and manually decode it to determine the method of encoding and then write an encoder/decoder pair for the filetype.

Codifex

 

[richiedaze]

Please post your rle and I will convert them to png for you.
As proof of concept. Then I will write a how to on this subject.

 

[teamnowhere]

I tried to convert PNG to RLE for a complete week without any success (each time the image is only displayed as a bunch of horizontal colors on my HTC HD2)...

So if you have any solution I am interested

 

[Darnell0216]

Has anyone tried IrfanView? I remember a game company used RLE's to make their graphics and we were able to edit them using this program. Of course the edits were only end user, but still fun.

Also came across this list: .rle Extension - List of programs that can open .rle files