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Convert raw to dds Online: raw2dds

You can use Tom's Editor to easily convert images from
RAW Dump .RAW to Direct Show Surface .DDS.
Tom's Editor is a free, online image manipulation and converter program.

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RAW

This is just raw pixels saved in a file. Format used mostly by old games. RAW files do not have any header so if you don't know what is the original width and height of the image it might be hard to decode them.

DDS

DDS are files invented by Microsoft to be used in games, mostly as textures. Images can be compressed to save space but the compression methods defined by DDS are all very fast in terms of coding and decoding.