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HEIF/HEIC support

See original GitHub issue

I don’t know if this is technically possible at this moment, it would be nice if sharp would one day support HEIF format which is now a default image format on latest iPhones.

References:

Intro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format
Technical Info: http://nokiatech.github.io/heif/technical.html
File Format Specs: https://mpeg.chiariglione.org/standards/mpeg-h/image-file-format/text-isoiec-cd-23008-12-image-file-format

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Created 6 years ago
Reactions:6
Comments:14 (8 by maintainers)

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lovellcommented, Mar 8, 2019

The forthcoming libvips v8.8.0 will add support for libheif. There will probably be a few changes required in sharp to expose the ability to read and write this format.

More importantly, the precompiled binaries provided by sharp will not include libheif so you’ll need to compile libvips from source and install it globally. (When the patent-free AVIF format is added to libheif then this might change.)

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faradaytrscommented, Jul 4, 2019

maybe it’s worth to make a guide or at least provide some links