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HEIF/HEIC on Linux?
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2021 9:42 am
by JimDossan
Hello everyone!
Searched the forums, but so far I only found the same question in some comments with no answer.
On Linux, can XnView MP support HEVC compressed photos (be it via plugins or other libraries), especially the thumbnail generation?
I found a thread on Reddit that talked about having libheif1 and libheif-dev installed, but that didn’t work for me so far on Ubuntu 20.4 LTS
Re: HEIF/HEIC on Linux?
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 9:20 am
by xnview
currently it's only supported on Windows/MacOS
Re: HEIF/HEIC on Linux?
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 10:30 am
by JimDossan
Thank you for the answer, now I can stop wondering whether I'm doing something wrongly!
Then I'll have to use some other software for viewing the files while on Linux for now. Thanks again for all your work!
Re: HEIF/HEIC on Linux?
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 7:10 am
by nightflame
Is HEIF/HEIC supported on Linux yet?
Re: HEIF/HEIC on Linux?
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:25 am
by xnview
nightflame wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 7:10 am
Is HEIF/HEIC supported on Linux yet?
yes you need to install libheif
Re: HEIF/HEIC on Linux?
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:32 am
by nightflame
Ah I found I needed to install libheif-dev specifically to get this to work.
Thanks
Re: HEIF/HEIC on Linux?
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:16 am
by brst
nightflame wrote: Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:32 am
Ah I found I needed to install libheif-dev specifically to get this to work.
Great! This works for me too!
Thank You!
Re: HEIF/HEIC on Linux?
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2024 4:51 am
by fbachofner
nightflame wrote: Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:32 am
Ah I found I needed to install libheif-dev specifically to get this to work.
On
Fedora this package is named
So:
Some additional (Fedora) libraries I have found to be useful to load heic/heif when using other image viewing programs such at Shotwell, qView and showFoto / digiKam are
- libheif-tools
- libheif-freeworld
- qt-heif-image-plugin
- heif-pixbuf-loader