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brookmiles / windows-heic-thumbnails

Enable Windows Explorer to display thumbnails for HEIC files
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extension .heif? #1

Open MarcWeber opened 1 year ago

MarcWeber commented 1 year ago

If I understand correctly .heic is container format also for videos. but .heif is for images only. Your driver dosen't show .heif? Is there is a reason for it? .heic works fine.

brookmiles commented 1 year ago

Only that my iPhone gives me .heic files which are what I had to test with.

They appear to be the same format, so yeah supporting .heif as well should just be a matter of the DLL registering the additional extension.

Masamune3210 commented 1 year ago

there is a difference. HEIC is a container format, it can contain HEIF, but it can also contain other things. Its not just a renamed file extension.

brookmiles commented 1 year ago

there is a difference. HEIC is a container format, it can contain HEIF, but it can also contain other things. Its not just a renamed file extension.

Based on https://nokiatech.github.io/heif/technical.html HEIF is the container format, and HEIC (or the .heic extension) is used to refer to HEIF files which use HEVC encoding.

Since I'm using https://github.com/strukturag/libheif to open and decode the images, adding support for .heif should only be a matter of registering to handle the additional extension.