HEIF Photo Format

[X1tymez]

Hey Guys,

Not sure if this got asked before. I can't share my photo because of the format. Can we get help here? Thanks

 

[Mooncatt]

You'll most likely need to convert it to a standard format like jpeg or png.

 

[X1tymez]

You'll most likely need to convert it to a standard format like jpeg or png.

I mean will it be supporting it. I can convert anytime.

 

[Mooncatt]

I mean will it be supporting it. I can convert anytime.

I had to go do some digging because I hadn't heard of that format before. I thought maybe it was something like a proprietary raw format.

I'm far from being someone with the ability to influence a site change like that, but from what I've read, I don't think it's mature enough of a format (though, it sounds more like a container than a single file format) to make that kind of change. The anecdotal evidence I was seeing was inconsistent in the compression/quality benefits.

Just curious, but how are you getting HEIF files? All the articles and discussions I saw on it centered around Apple devices. I wasn't seeing it in widespread use in Android or even dedicated cameras.

 

[X1tymez]

Hi.

Thanks for getting back to me. It's intergrades into Samsung S10 camera. We have option to use JPEG but I decided to use HEIF format for change and save storage.

Let me know if there future support. Also, major website Facebook Instagram does support it.

 

[Rukbat]

Support on this site? Put one in an <img> tag (on any site) and you'll know. Then we can ask the powers that be to include the file type in the list. (That's a trivial change.) If it's going to take a major change to allow the show to display the format, it probably won't get done, unless it becomes a common format. (And I think it's the latter - HTML5 can't display an HEIF container, to the best of my knowledge.)

And, as Mooncatt said, it is a container format, not a picture format. If you use a single .jpg picture in an HEIF container (don't know why you'd want to), or an mpeg4 (again, don't know why you'd want to), it may not be too much work. If you use some unknown (to us) picture or video format, the odds are that the site won't be modified to open the container, just so we can't display what's in it (like a series of jpg files).

If you read Apple’s HEIF image format choice reinvents photography, you'll see that most of what HEIF containerization does isn't needed (or wanted) on a forum. Most of the things here are links to a YouTube video or are screenshots (which have no depth, sound or anything else) - about the only thing HEIF might give us is a smaller file size.