Issue 503 in webp: Error! Could not process file

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New issue 503 by agrab...@gmail.com: Error! Could not process file
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webp/issues/detail?id=503

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Download libwebp-1.1.0-linux-x86-64.tar.gz
2. extract (../bin/cwebp) cwebp to /opt/
3. put image test.jpeg to /opt/
4. run /opt/cwebp /opt/test.jpeg -o /opt/result.webp

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expect file result.webp on directory /opt/, but there is no such file.
Error message:
Error! Could not process file /opt/test.jpeg
Error! Cannot read input picture file '/opt/test.jpeg'

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Product version: libwebp 1.1.0
Operating system: Ubuntu 18.04.03 LTS

Please provide any additional information below.
All files has permission 0777

Attachments:
test.jpeg 29.1 KB
cwebp 2.4 MB

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Comment #1 on issue 503 by pasca...@gmail.com: Error! Could not process file
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webp/issues/detail?id=503#c1

The test file 'test.jpeg' is actually a BM file, which the library doesn't support as input.

> file test.jpeg
test.jpeg: PC bitmap, Windows 3.x format, 177 x 56 x 24, image size 29792, cbSize 29846, bits offset 54


You should try converting it to PNG first with, e.g., ImageMagick's 'convert'.