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Do you know when we can expect .heic?

• theandrewbailey 5y ago
  If you mean the container format, AVIF uses it natively. If you mean the image format, probably never. It's based on the HEVC/H.265 licensing minefield. For that reason, I don't expect it to ever be supported on Chromium or Firefox based browsers.
  • teekert 5y ago
    Hmm, I have no issues viewing the files (iPhone pictures) on my Ubuntu desktop, are they that much braver?
    • Gigachad 5y ago
      Yes. You probably have the extra codecs package added which is arguably illegal to distribute in the US. Other distros like Fedora won’t touch it.
• yboris 5y ago
  I thought that .heic has patents on it and is thus not free in some cases. Which I think is an overwhelming reason to bury it and not use unless you have a very good reason to. Having fewer browsers support .heic format would be a benefit -- as it would decrease the chances of the format surviving.
  • teekert 5y ago
    Hmm, I really like live photos(the moving pictures of the iPhone) and the advantages that brings. Damn, Apple got me again. I'm going to read up on advantages of Heif and maybe set up script in Nextcloud to auto-convert, so I do have a free format of all my pics.