[digiKam-users] recognise .hif files as heif format

Michael Kefeder m.kefeder at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 07:25:56 BST 2022


Thanks for the quick fix, I assume a bug-report is no longer needed?

Side-note: about the Canon R5 discussion for Lightroom, in my case it is a
Sony camera producing .HIF files, and Capture One also cannot process them,
seems like the whole industry is stuck in the past...

thanks again
 Mike


Am Fr., 1. Juli 2022 um 07:43 Uhr schrieb Gilles Caulier <
caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:

> I like to read the Adobe response about this topic :
>
>
> https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/canon-r5-jpeg-files-are-now-hif-extensions-and-can-t-be-read-by-lightroom/m-p/11809529
>
> Gilles
>
>
> Le ven. 1 juil. 2022 à 07:39, Gilles Caulier
> <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > Hi Maik,
> >
> > Under Windows, HIF sounds like it is also recognised as a HEIF
> > container, even if this is not standardized yet.
> >
> >
> https://office-watch.com/2021/heif-heic-image-support-in-office-365-for-a-small-price/
> >
> > Gilles
> >
> > Le jeu. 30 juin 2022 à 22:48, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
> > >
> > > KF5 Plasma also supports HIF as HEIF image format, I add it to the
> database.
> > >
> > > Maik
> > >
> > > Am Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2022, 22:28:58 CEST schrieben Sie:
> > > > I'm in the process of patching it for digiKam-8.0.0. However, the
> extension
> > > > HIF is not an official extension for HEIF. The extension actually
> stands for
> > > > a program "Quicken". So I won't add it as an auto-detected mime
> type. Or do
> > > > you think otherwise, Gilles?
> > > >
> > > > Maik
> > > >
> > > > Am Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2022, 22:19:25 CEST schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Please report this as a new entry in bugzilla. The HEIf plugin is
> not
> > > > > the only where we need to patch for HIF support as an extension...
> > > > >
> > > > > https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided&product=digikam
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks in advance
> > > > >
> > > > > Gilles Caulier
> > > > >
> > > > > Le jeu. 30 juin 2022 à 17:10, Michael Kefeder <m.kefeder at gmail.com>
> a
> > > > > écrit
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I just tried digikam 7.7.0 on macOS and I want to add .HIF files
> to be
> > > > > > loaded by the HEIF loader plugin. Any hints on how to go about
> this?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I added HIF to the mimetype settings, but that doesn't help.
> Renaming a
> > > > > > .hif file to .heif makes them show (however my camera sticks to
> the
> > > > > > ancient 8.3 filename pattern, hence uses .hif and I prefer not
> to having
> > > > > > to rename my files)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I dug around the source code a bit, changing
> > > > > > core/dplugins/dimg/heif/dimgheifplugin.cpp typeMimes() to also
> return
> > > > > > HIF
> > > > > > in the string looks like a solution. Is that what's needed, or
> is there
> > > > > > another way?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > thanks in advance
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  Mike
> > > > > >
> > > > > > p.s.: It's great that you offer HEIF support, thanks! The
> commercial
> > > > > > competition does not, and seemingly isn't even working on it...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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