My Samsung uses it for lower-storage size images lol
Comment on TrueNAS/Nextcloud HEIC support?
1984@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I don’t even know what a heic image is.
NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
mindlight@lemm.ee 6 months ago
You can set the camera to store the pictures as JPEG. I am happy with JPEG for my holiday photos. Just check that you have the best quality setting since JPEG uses lossy compression.
While HEIF is not the doomsday thing some describes it as, it currently is somewhat problematic.
There are for example problems, originating in differences in implementation between different hardware vendors, with 10-bit and HDR.
mindlight@lemm.ee 6 months ago
No.
It’s a container for image data developed by Moving Picture Experts Group (“MPEG”, try to guess what else they have created).
While there are some compatibility issues between vendors HEIC still offers a greater set of features as compared to fx JFIF (you probably know it as JPEG/JPG.
Apple was one of the early adopters (2017) and (as usual?) the industry has followed. Microsoft wants money for the codec in Windows and that’s probably one of the reasons why it’s not commonly used…yet.
filister@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You are missing the elephant in the room here that this format isn’t royalty free and requires a license and is patented.
Same story with H.265 and AV1 in the video. AV1 is royalty free video codec while H.265 is patented so every device that transcodes or encodes to it should pay royalty fee to the patent holder, but due to the fact that H.265 predates AV1, a lot of devices still don’t fully support AV1.
mindlight@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I replied to a statement about Heif being an Apple image format. It is not.
Furthermore, HEIF is something that most major mobile device vendors support. Some, like Samsung, even sets it as default on some of their devices. So the whole “Apple always supporting not open standards” is just tiresome at this point.
99.999% of all Android users are defacto locked in by Google. Yes, Android might be open but Play services are not. Google world hard to lock in Android users.
At least Apple are open and honest about locking in iOS users.
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 6 months ago
iOS and Android spend an inordinate amount of time and money on ways to increase the switching costs between the two systems. Aka they add friction to leaving their ecosystem.