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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by guptaneil on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:19PM (#23261441)
You're thinking of HEVC (video encoding, like h.265): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#P...

HEIC (image encoding) is available without royalties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_For...

Regardless, in this case, as others noted, iOS would have just converted to jpg if College Board was using a standard image upload form.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by noisem4ker on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:07PM (#23264335)
>HEIC (image encoding) is available without royalties

As stated by that Wikipedia article, HEIF is the royalty-free container. HEIC means the content is encoded with HEVC, which makes it not free.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by pdonis on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:10PM (#23263460)
> HEIC (image encoding) is available without royalties

Ah, ok, thanks!

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by ungzd on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:25PM (#23261546)
> When containing images and image sequences encoded in a particular format (e.g. HEVC or AVC) its use becomes subject to the licensing of patents on the coding format.
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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by guptaneil on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:29PM (#23261623)
I'm not sure what you're trying to say with that quote? As I mentioned, HEVC is subject to licensing costs. If you try to wrap your HEVC video content in an HEIC container, you don't suddenly get to skip paying the original licensing costs.
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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by noisem4ker on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:14PM (#23264445)
He's trying to remark the fact that HEIC = HEIF(HEVC) => non-free. See my other reply to your first comment. Note that HEVC doesn't necessarily mean video. It can be used to compress still images, as it's the case of Apple devices.
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