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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by throw0101c on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @06:36AM (#44308604)
> And the MPEG folks were so cool with video, all that licensing BS. Sounds great. No thanks!

Not wrong, but this is a different topic/objection than the GP's 'being locked into Apple's ecosystem'.

And as the Wikipedia article for HEIC shows, there's plenty of support for the format, even in open source OSes.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_For...

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by leguminous on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @08:10AM (#44309172)
As far as I know, that's only support for the container format. You can't actually decode HEIC without also installing libde265, which you are supposed to have a license for. I'm not even sure how you'd go about getting an individual license.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by throw0101d on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @09:19AM (#44309650)
> You can't actually decode HEIC without also installing libde265, which you are supposed to have a license for. I'm not even sure how you'd go about getting an individual license.

Debian doesn't seem to have a problem with it:

* https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libde265

* https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libheif

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