HEIF (High Efficiency Image File Format) support

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HEIF (High Efficiency Image File Format) support #430

Open jurisbu opened 3 years ago

jurisbu commented 3 years ago

Hi!

I am wondering if HEIF/HEIC support is on the roadmap? Given one significant vendor pushing it with the intent completely replacing JPEG, it seems that HEIF/HEIC might be one of future formats.

As far as I understand any new format would have to provided wilt other lib than Imlib2 (since it looks that there is no new development there)?

dllud commented 3 years ago

imlib2 seems to be maintained still, at least there have been some releases: https://sourceforge.net/projects/enlightenment/files/imlib2-src/ I opened an issue at their bug tracker asking for HEIF support: https://phab.enlightenment.org/T8877 Meanwhile there's a basic loader that can be used: https://github.com/vi/imlib2-heic