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  • Re: How to view HEIC files in WIndows?

    From sobriquet@21:1/5 to sobriquet on Tue Oct 11 03:29:45 2022
    On Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 12:16:08 PM UTC+2, sobriquet wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 5:36:09 AM UTC+2, Zitelli wrote:
    My Android camera app had an option for HEIC files and said they were better so I set it and now I can't view the files on Windows in Irfanview.

    How do you convert HEIC back to JPEG on either Android or Windows?
    One option would be to open it in photopea (in the browser) and convert
    it to jpg (exporting the image).

    https://www.photopea.com/

    Hmmm, I just tested it and it seems photopea isn't able to open heic files.

    https://filesamples.com/formats/heic

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  • From sobriquet@21:1/5 to Zitelli on Tue Oct 11 03:16:04 2022
    On Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 5:36:09 AM UTC+2, Zitelli wrote:
    My Android camera app had an option for HEIC files and said they were
    better so I set it and now I can't view the files on Windows in Irfanview.

    How do you convert HEIC back to JPEG on either Android or Windows?

    One option would be to open it in photopea (in the browser) and convert
    it to jpg (exporting the image).

    https://www.photopea.com/

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  • From David Taylor@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 11 16:05:36 2022
    There's an interesting article in Wikipedia about HEIC and related formats:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format

    --
    Cheers,
    David
    Web: https://www.satsignal.eu

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  • From Alfred Molon@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 11 18:33:37 2022
    Am 11.10.2022 um 17:05 schrieb David Taylor:
    There's an interesting article in Wikipedia about HEIC and related formats:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format#Web_browsers

    "As of September 2022, no browser supports HEIC format natively."

    It's probably a format as great as JPEG 2000, which after over 20 years
    nobody is using.
    --
    Alfred Molon

    Olympus 4/3 and micro 4/3 cameras forum at
    https://groups.io/g/myolympus
    https://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Oct 11 13:00:45 2022
    In article <CVg1L.517010$[email protected]>, Alfred Molon <[email protected]> wrote:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format#Web_browsers

    "As of September 2022, no browser supports HEIC format natively."

    so what? all that means is you need to output jpeg for web. everything
    else can be heif/hevc (or raw).

    numerous first and third party apps support it.

    It's probably a format as great as JPEG 2000, which after over 20 years nobody is using.

    so what? just because that failed doesn't mean other formats will also
    fail.

    more than a billion people use heif/hevc and have been for several
    years.

    all recent iphones and macs suport it in hardware, so it's also *very*
    fast, and with no additional software required.

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  • From David Taylor@21:1/5 to Alfred Molon on Tue Oct 11 19:04:42 2022
    On 11/10/2022 17:33, Alfred Molon wrote:
    "As of September 2022, no browser supports HEIC format natively."

    It's probably a format as great as JPEG 2000, which after over 20 years nobody is using.

    Could be! Although often when something new comes along, it eventually becomes the standard. As this isn't that new, though, I'm not convinced.

    I do recall getting a video recently, though, in the HEVC format, from a government organisation. Can't recall now whether it was NOAA or ESA. Something like this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPjrq1U_PQ

    but more recent and of /much/ higher resolution.
    --
    Cheers,
    David
    Web: https://www.satsignal.eu

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Oct 11 14:20:24 2022
    In article <ti4b7q$11ml5$[email protected]>, David Taylor <[email protected]d> wrote:

    It's probably a format as great as JPEG 2000, which after over 20 years nobody is using.

    Could be!

    already is

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