strukturag/libheif

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

libheif is a C++ library that decodes and encodes HEIF/HEIC and AVIF image files, plus HEIF containers using VVC, AVC, JPEG, and JPEG-2000 codecs. It supports advanced features like alpha channels, HDR, tiled images, image sequences, and metadata, with a plugin interface for alternative codecs.

Use cases

• convert heic images to jpeg or png
• decode avif files in my application
• add heif image support to my image viewer
• encode images to avif format
• read exif metadata from heic photos
• handle hdr and alpha channel images in heif format
• extract thumbnails from heic files

When to choose

• your application needs to read or write HEIC/HEIF or AVIF images
• you need broad HEIF feature support including sequences, tiled images, HDR, and metadata
• you want a codec-plugin architecture to keep dependencies minimal
• you are building a cross-platform image pipeline in C/C++

When to avoid

• you only need a command-line converter and don't want to integrate a library
• you need a high-level API in a language other than C/C++ without bindings
• you require commercial support guarantees, as the project is maintained by a single independent developer with limited funding

Facets

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image-processing parser sdk image-processing files graphics cpp c cross-platform windows heif heic avif codec image-decoder image-encoder iso-bmff hdr metadata linux macos android ios

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