[digiKam-users] Do HEIC files have embedded video?

[AndriusWild]

Hello,

I get HEIC files from some of the phones in our household. If I open them on the phone they look like they have a short video embedded in them. Digikam however shows them as still images.

I am wondering whether it happens because digiKam does not support the format fully or I missed something while transferring the files from the phone. The size of the files is pretty small though.

I wonder if anyone in this room have dealt with this file standard. I have a Windows 10 and a Linux machine. Nothing but digiKam can open HEIC on either one of them.

Thanks,

Andrey

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

[Gilles Caulier-4]

HEIF are based on ISO standard, and can embed more than one image of course. It's a complex container.

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

To access to extra part, the parser provided by libheif used by digiKam must be improved...

https://github.com/strukturag/libheif

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le mer. 8 janv. 2020 à 21:29, Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> a écrit :

Hello,

I get HEIC files from some of the phones in our household. If I open them on the phone they look like they have a short video embedded in them. Digikam however shows them as still images.

I am wondering whether it happens because digiKam does not support the format fully or I missed something while transferring the files from the phone. The size of the files is pretty small though.

I wonder if anyone in this room have dealt with this file standard. I have a Windows 10 and a Linux machine. Nothing but digiKam can open HEIC on either one of them.

Thanks,

Andrey

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.