#libheif

2024-10-01

today in peak Desktop Linux news, I learned that I have a library installed that is an HEVC (H.265) and AV1 encoder/decoder library with a plugin architecture.

Its plugins are adapters to use other HEVC and AV1 encoder/decoder libraries.

It apparently depends or recommends around 5 of these plugins which depends on at least 3 different libraries that all supposedly do HEVC encoding

(I understand there might be Reasons why this is a good idea, but still...)

Christopher Snowhillchris@social.losno.co
2024-06-14

Does anyone who is running the iOS 18 beta on their iPhone feel like donating a #HEIC file taken from their device? I had heard that the format is now incompatible with #libheif, but can't find the original thread, because Mastodon is quite ephemeral after a few hours.

Jean-Jerome Levyjeanjeromelevy
2023-10-31

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libheif/1.17.x is causing an error "heif: heif writer callback returned a null error text (5.2001)". To revert to the previous version 1.16.2, do the following:

$ brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies libheif
$ curl raw.githubusercontent.com/Home > libheif.rb
$ brew install ./libheif.rb

Kaan Barmore-Genckaan@fosstodon.org
2023-04-15

Totally unrelated: I wonder how many people using libheif-js through heic-decode and heic-convert on #npmjs are actually violating #libheif's license, because heic-decode and heic-convert are not LGPL licensed even though libheif-js is, and most people probably use them without digging through the licenses of the dependencies.

2021-05-13

It's great to have something like libheif, but the software quality is real shit. Memory leaks in the gdk pixbuf module and the thumbnailer doesn't seem to work for me.
#libheif

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