HEIF/HEIC on Linux?

[JimDossan]

Hello everyone!

Searched the forums, but so far I only found the same question in some comments with no answer.

On Linux, can XnView MP support HEVC compressed photos (be it via plugins or other libraries), especially the thumbnail generation?

I found a thread on Reddit that talked about having libheif1 and libheif-dev installed, but that didn’t work for me so far on Ubuntu 20.4 LTS

[xnview]

currently it's only supported on Windows/MacOS

[JimDossan]

Thank you for the answer, now I can stop wondering whether I'm doing something wrongly!

Then I'll have to use some other software for viewing the files while on Linux for now. Thanks again for all your work!

[nightflame]

Is HEIF/HEIC supported on Linux yet?

[xnview]

Is HEIF/HEIC supported on Linux yet?

yes you need to install libheif

[nightflame]

Ah I found I needed to install libheif-dev specifically to get this to work.

Thanks

[brst]

Ah I found I needed to install libheif-dev specifically to get this to work.

Great! This works for me too!
Thank You!

[fbachofner]

Ah I found I needed to install libheif-dev specifically to get this to work.

On Fedora this package is named

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libheif-devel

So:

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sudo dnf install libheif-devel

Some additional (Fedora) libraries I have found to be useful to load heic/heif when using other image viewing programs such at Shotwell, qView and showFoto / digiKam are

• libheif-tools
• libheif-freeworld
• qt-heif-image-plugin
• heif-pixbuf-loader