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It might be a standard, but for a long time the licensing costs were exorbitant, and that likely stifled adoption. While licensing costs have come down, the pu
by zenexer 2y ago
It might be a standard, but for a long time the licensing costs were exorbitant, and that likely stifled adoption. While licensing costs have come down, the pushback against HEIC’s pricing led to the development of better, royalty-free alternatives—including JPEG XL. Thank god they went with an unencumbered standard this time.
- gambiting 2y agoWindows showing you a popup saying you need to buy a £0.79 windows add on to just open photos taken with an iPhone was always unbelievable. Like some kind of malware or something.
- throwaway17_17 2y agoIn what context was thisnprompt appearing. I can not think of a time I have ever struggled to be able to open a photo from my iPhone in any of the apps I commonly use. Is this a Windows application issue or an OS issue, and how were the photos coming to your machine? Just to clarify, this is an honest question not sarcasm.
- swiftcoder 2y agoIf you directly download the HEIC photos to your windows PC. The iPhone tends to convert to jpeg whenever you email/whatsapp/etc a photo, so it's only direct file import that nets the original HEIC file.
- gambiting 2y agoExactly, I'd upload a bunch of photos to Google Drive to download to my PC, Google Drive could open them fine, but the default windows photo viewer app would demand payment to open them.
- astrange 2y agoWell, Windows wouldn't display the HDR part of the image, so you're still not exactly seeing it.
- npteljes 2y agoHaha, that's rich. I have never seen this popup (haven't had the use case), was it this one? https://helpdeskgeek.com/wp-content/pictures/2020/10/02-HEVC-Codec.png https://helpdeskgeek.com/wp-content/pictures/2020/10/02-HEVC...
- gambiting 2y agoYep, that's the one.