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PVR

PVR is the PowerVR texture container format. It is associated with Imagination Technologies' PowerVR ecosystem and is commonly seen in mobile texture workflows.

The container can store compressed texture payloads together with mipmaps and texture metadata.

Why It Is Used

PVR is commonly encountered in:

  • PowerVR-oriented mobile pipelines
  • PVRTC texture workflows
  • offline-generated mipmapped texture assets

loaders.gl Support

Format Featureloaders.gl SupportNotes
PVR container parsingYesSupported by CompressedTextureLoader.
Mip level extractionYesReturned as TextureLevel[].
PVRTC and related format taggingYesloaders.gl maps recognized formats to canonical texture format identifiers.
Direct GPU upload workflowsYesOutput is designed for GPU upload by consuming frameworks and applications.