Thanks for the info, I had no idea it was patented that way! Take care, Abe
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 6:23 AM, Felix Riemann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Abe, > > Sorry for the late response. > > eog uses gdk-pixbuf as backend library for image decoding. Adding (simple) > HEIF support requires writing a loader plugin for gdk-pixbuf that handles > the file format (e.g. by using a given decoding library) and manually > assigning eog as viewer for the given file type. > > However, while HEIF itself is just a container, the HEIC pictures from the > Apple phones use the HEVC algorithm for compressing the actual image data. > HEVC is a heavily patented algorithm, which would as far as I know require > Ubuntu/Fedora to pay licensing fees if they'd include it in their > distributions. So I wouldn't count on HEIF/HEIC/HEVC (too many > abbreviations!) support in major distributions soonish. > > Regards, > > Felix > > Am Mittwoch, den 01.11.2017, 16:00 -0500 schrieb Abe Voelker: > > Hello, > > With the release of iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra, Apple began allowing > users to save pictures formatted as HEIF files (on my phone, named with > a .heic file extension): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_ > Efficiency_Image_File_Format > > On my Ubuntu install, it seems that Eye of GNOME (version 3.18.2) cannot > open these files. Just wondering if there are any plans to support them? > > Thanks! > Abe > >
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