Re: Support for HEIF
Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.graphicsmagick.help |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > Bob, I am not aware of anyone requesting or adopting support for AV1 - in > fact, I had never heard of it before this email. It seems that it is supported in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Not sure about Microsoft and Apple since they both bought into HEIF/HEVC. AV1 is a video technology, but HEIF is based on a video technology (HEVC) as well. The AVIF format is the still-image format as HEIF is to HEVC. > 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 :(. Volunteers should be doing the research to see how free software can safely (avoiding anyone being sued) support HEIF on popular platforms. Otherwise, it is useful for free software to support unencumbered formats. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn [email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot