nokiatech/heif

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Nokia's C++ implementation of the HEIF (High Efficiency Image File Format) standard, ISO/IEC 23008-12, providing reader and writer libraries for HEIF image files and sequences. It includes a Java API via JNI and demonstrates the format's features such as image items, sequences, and multi-layered images.

Use cases

• read and write HEIF image files in C++
• parse HEIF container structure
• create HEIF image sequences programmatically
• work with HEIF files from Java via JNI
• generate MIAF-conformant media files
• validate HEIF conformance test files

When to choose

• you need low-level programmatic control over HEIF file structure
• you are implementing HEIF support in a C++ or Java application
• you need to write HEIF files, not just read them
• you need MIAF or multi-layered image support

When to avoid

• you just need to convert or view HEIC images in a user-facing tool
• you want a high-level encoder with broad codec support
• you need an actively maintained library with frequent updates
• you need a pure Python or JavaScript solution

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

image-processing parser serialization sdk image-processing media files developer-tools cpp cross-platform jvm heif isobmff hevc image-container miaf jni

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