Re: Support for HEIF

Bob, I am not aware of anyone requesting or adopting support for AV1 - in
fact, I had never heard of it before this email.

However, HEIF is indeed the biggy right now, mostly because Apple moved to
it without regards for the rest of the industry and now we're all stuck
with it :(.

Leonard

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Bob Friesenhahn <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, 赵睿 wrote:
>
> https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/507
>> When to support helf format?
>>
>
> This project is free software and not the product of companies (e.g.
> Microsoft, Apple, and Google) worth many tens or over a hundred billion
> dollars, who could easily afford to purchase the patent rights required to
> support HEIF.
>
> The only way that HEIF could be legally supported by GraphicsMagick is via
> an API artifact of the operating systems (or video card vendor) which have
> paid the patent fees to allow software to use that API to encode or decode
> the file without paying additional patent fees. Users interested in HEIF
> should be helping to identify such interfaces and implementing a coder
> module based on them.
>
> Giving software away for free does not protect from patent issues.
>
> I am hoping that an image format based on AV1 (
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1) will become competitive since it does
> not suffer from the patent issues, and is claimed that all of the major
> browsers will be supporting it.
>
> Bob
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