Add support for HEIF/HEVC

[EricKerby]

HEIF and HEVC image and video files are now becoming increasingly prevalent with the latest moves by Apple to embrace the standards on the latest iOS and mac OS versions. Dropbox has a help page on the formats here: https://www.dropbox.com/help/photos-videos/ios-formats. Nextcloud should add support for previewing/displaying images and videos in these formats in the web interface and mobile apps.

[c0fe]

Second that enhancement here, it would be quite helpful since I already work with those formats.

[tflidd]

There were some discussions on the forum about it. The format seems to be patent-protected and it could be legally difficult to implement this:
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/ios11-heic-heif-format/20368

In the ios client it is solved in that way that you can choose to upload everything in jpg:
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/warning-for-ios-11-heic-and-hevc-formats-unsupported/21229

[hoellen]

I just want to let you know that Google introduce HEIF support with Android P and Windows will support it nativly, too.
https://www.cnet.com/news/windows-supports-heif-space-squeezing-photo-format/

[c0fe]

@LukasReschke would this be a candidate for Milestone Version 14?

[steiny2k]

Just wanted to point you to upstream attempts to tackle the issue on the server side (on-the-fly preview generation using a recent version ImageMagick, generating .jpg thumbnails):
owncloud/gallery#737
owncloud/core#30093
owncloud/core#30108

I think this could also be tackled as an app similar to CameraRawPreviews (or even be integrated into it):
https://github.com/cowai/camerarawpreviews

[MorrisJobke]

Fixed in #10526

[freekvh]

Sorry to respond to this old feature, but for me this has never worked. I Don't see previews of heic images on Firefox on Windows, Safari on iOS or in the Nextcloud app on iOS. In the app the live image will play, but only when I hold my finger onto a sort of template preview, I never see any real previews.

Am I missing something?

[solracsf]

Run the following to check if you have HEIC support in your PHP:
php -r 'phpinfo();' | grep HEIC

If not: https://eplt.medium.com/5-minutes-to-install-imagemagick-with-heic-support-on-ubuntu-18-04-digitalocean-fe2d09dcef1

[freekvh]

Run the following to check if you have HEIC support in your PHP:

php -r 'phpinfo();' | grep HEIC

If not: https://eplt.medium.com/5-minutes-to-install-imagemagick-with-heic-support-on-ubuntu-18-04-digitalocean-fe2d09dcef1

Thanx, this is helpful, however, not so much in a container environment (unless I start building them myself). I would like this to become part of the existing container offering. Or perhaps there can be a method to so low level plugins from outside the container.

[jsixface]

I use the nextcloud:stable-fpm image and It has the HEIC support

 $docker exec -it nextcloud bash
www-data@a29fc6a2dbbd:~/html$ php -r 'phpinfo();' | grep HEIC
ImageMagick supported formats => 3FR, ............, HEIC, HISTOGRAM,.................., YUV

[freekvh]

I use the nextcloud:stable-fpm image and It has the HEIC support

 $docker exec -it nextcloud bash

www-data@a29fc6a2dbbd:~/html$ php -r 'phpinfo();' | grep HEIC

ImageMagick supported formats => 3FR, ............, HEIC, HISTOGRAM,.................., YUV

So, does it work for you? Do you have heic previews? If so I'll try migrating soon.