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High Efficiency Image File Format

13 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 13 comments · first 2017-06-05 · latest 2021-01-10

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  1. …https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160232939A1/ [3] https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-avif/ [4] https://github.com/nokiatech/heif/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19874368 [6]…
    comment by niftich · 2021-01-10 · in AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86
  2. …soon. “Official” HEIF JavaScript port measures ~500-600k gzipped, so 56k gzipped is an advantage. https://github.com/nokiatech/heif/tree/gh-pages/js
    comment by oefrha · 2020-06-23 · in Is WebP really better than JPEG?
  3. …and/or working out a license deal with the patent cartel is a nontrivial amount of work. [0]: https://github.com/nokiatech/heif/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT [1]: https://www.mpegla.com/wp-content/uploads/hevc-att1.pdf
    comment by Rebelgecko · 2020-05-21 · in Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images
  4. …https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160232939A1/ [3] https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-avif/ [4] https://github.com/nokiatech/heif/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19874368
    comment by niftich · 2020-03-09 · in AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding
  5. …that their patent grant is for non-commercial evaluation, testing and academic research only. [1] https://github.com/nokiatech/heif/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT
    comment by niftich · 2019-05-10 · in It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video
  6. Nokia has licensed their HEIF patents under royalty-free terms: https://github.com/nokiatech/heif/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT So that solves that problem. Which other patents is HEIF encumbered by?
    comment by clouddrover · 2019-05-10 · in It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video
  7. …of any video format patents. Nokia licenses their HEIF implementation under royalty-free terms: https://github.com/nokiatech/heif/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT
    comment by clouddrover · 2018-03-29 · in AV1 Release
  8. …corporate politics will surely prevent it from happening. That being said I did file a bug report: https://github.com/nokiatech/heif/issues/46
    comment by robert_foss · 2018-03-28 · in AV1 Release
  9. …images HEIF itself is a container format. It currently supports JPEG, H.264, and H.265 bitstreams: https://github.com/nokiatech/heif Nothing precludes AV1 from being contained in a HEIF file.
    comment by clouddrover · 2018-03-28 · in AV1 Release
  10. I think HEIF itself is royalty-free: https://github.com/nokiatech/heif It's the formats you use inside of HEIF (such as H.264 and especially H.265) that can require royalty-payments, although HEIF can also contain JPEG. Apple will probably…
    comment by clouddrover · 2018-01-21 · in Photo format from Google and Mozilla could leave JPEG in the dust
  11. …container format that supports a number of different image formats (like HEVC, AVC, and JPEG): https://github.com/nokiatech/heif Apple could and probably will add AV1 support to their HEIF implementation in the future.
    comment by clouddrover · 2018-01-10 · in The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won
  12. …AV1 then I think you should be able to use HEIF royalty-free. The GitHub repository is at: https://github.com/nokiatech/heif The "License Grant" section of LICENSE.TXT sounds like it grants a royalty-free patent license to the HEIF format…
    comment by clouddrover · 2017-07-25 · in Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet
  13. …other people's HEVC patents, of course). It's based on the LGPL-licensed libde265 library. [1] https://github.com/nokiatech/heif/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT
    comment by TD-Linux · 2017-06-05 · in HEIF – High Efficiency Image File Format