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teekert on May 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why does nobody support h.265/HEVC anymore...

This is also behind heic? Right? Man what a pain, I love hdr and Live Photos but anywhere outside the Apple ecosystem it is pain. I really wouldn’t mind paying some dollars for some codecs to just be able to see my pics in Windows, Linux, Nextcloud etc.

floatboth on May 9, 2022 | [–]

> Windows

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/heif-image-extensions/9pmm... + https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/hevc-video-extensions/9nmz...

> Linux

https://github.com/strukturag/libheif (includes gdk-pixbuf loader and nautilus thumbnailer)

projektfu on May 9, 2022 | [–]

Windows 11 appears to read HEIC in the photos app.

freeone3000 on May 9, 2022 | [–]

With the required codec from the store, yes.

projektfu on May 10, 2022 | | [–]

Hmm, I didn't do that. Maybe support gets installed by the iCloud Drive client?

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