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> And the MPEG folks were so cool with video, all that licensing BS. Sounds great. No thanks! Not wrong, but this is a different topic/objection than the GP's
by throw0101c 1y ago
> And the MPEG folks were so cool with video, all that licensing BS. Sounds great. No thanks!
Not wrong, but this is a different topic/objection than the GP's 'being locked into Apple's ecosystem'.
And as the Wikipedia article for HEIC shows, there's plenty of support for the format, even in open source OSes.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format#Operating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_For...
- leguminous 1y agoAs far as I know, that's only support for the container format. You can't actually decode HEIC without also installing libde265, which you are supposed to have a license for. I'm not even sure how you'd go about getting an individual license.
- throw0101d 1y ago> You can't actually decode HEIC without also installing libde265, which you are supposed to have a license for. I'm not even sure how you'd go about getting an individual license. Debian doesn't seem to have a problem with it: * https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libde265 https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libde265 * https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libheif https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libheif