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libheif mit Homebrew installieren
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Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 HEIF file format decoder and encoder
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- heif-convert
- heif-dec
- heif-enc
- heif-info
- heif-thumbnailer
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
libheif is a C/C++ library and set of command-line tools for HEIF-family still-image formats. Its package-manager value comes from sitting at the awkward but important boundary between container formats, patent-heavy video codecs, and desktop image tooling.
The project is associated with Struktur AG and Dirk Farin, and the public repository describes it as an ISO/IEC 23008-12 HEIF and AVIF file-format decoder and encoder.
Projektgeschichte
The v1.0.0 release in February 2018 was billed as the first still-image decoder release and already covered HEIF features such as tiled images, alpha channels, thumbnails, EXIF/XMP metadata, depth channels, multiple images, image transformations, and overlays.
The v1.7.0 release in June 2020 added AVIF reading and writing through libaom and described a plugin architecture that let encoders reuse HEIF infrastructure while selecting AV1 compression.
The v1.12.0 release in May 2021 added MIAF conformance handling, premultiplied-alpha signaling, AV1 sequence-header parsing for the av1C box, and AVIF pixi-box writing. The v1.22.0 release in May 2026 broadened the library toward generic image components and a reworked ISO/IEC 23001-17 lossless-image codec implementation.
Adoptionsgeschichte
libheif became a common Unix package because it gave image applications and shell workflows a reusable way to read HEIC files from Apple-oriented ecosystems and AVIF files from web-image ecosystems without each application implementing the container stack itself.
Homebrew ships it with user-facing tools such as heif-convert, heif-enc, heif-dec, heif-info, and heif-thumbnailer, which made it useful both as a library dependency and as a command-line conversion utility.
Wie es verwendet wird
Typical package use is format conversion, image inspection, thumbnail generation, and linking higher-level image software against a shared HEIF/AVIF implementation. Codec details are delegated to companion libraries or plugins such as libaom for AV1 support.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
libheif matters to packagers because the visible package is small, but its usefulness depends on codec policy, optional dependencies, plugin choices, and file-format brands. It is the sort of package where build options decide whether users get HEIC-only, AVIF-capable, or broader modern-image support.
It also marks the shift from classic single-image formats toward containerized image formats that carry auxiliary images, metadata, sequences, depth, alpha, HDR, and codec-specific boxes.
Zeitleiste
- 2018: v1.0.0 released as the first still-image decoder release.
- 2020: v1.7.0 added AVIF reading and writing through libaom.
- 2021: v1.12.0 added MIAF conformance and AVIF metadata refinements.
- 2026: v1.22.0 expanded generic image components and ISO/IEC 23001-17 lossless-image support.
Related projects
- libde265 and x265 are closely related through HEVC/HEIC workflows.
- libaom and other AV1 codec projects are related through AVIF encoding and decoding.
- ImageMagick, GIMP, thumbnailers, and desktop file managers are typical downstream consumers of HEIF/AVIF libraries.
Quellen
- https://api.github.com/repos/strukturag/libheif/releases/tags/v1.0.0
- https://api.github.com/repos/strukturag/libheif/releases/tags/v1.12.0
- https://api.github.com/repos/strukturag/libheif/releases/tags/v1.22.0
- https://api.github.com/repos/strukturag/libheif/releases/tags/v1.7.0
- https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/libheif
- https://github.com/strukturag/libheif
Sicherheitslage
Noch keine Protected-Tool-Abdeckung gefunden
Für libheif wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.
Installationsverhalten
- Es wurden keine Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten erfasst.
Empfohlene Prüfung
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Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
heif-convert | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
heif-dec | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
heif-enc | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
heif-info | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
heif-thumbnailer | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
Seite generiert2026-08-03
Manager-Version1.23.1
Manager aktualisiert
lokale Datenunbekannt
Upstreamnicht verfügbar
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
- OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:libheif |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.23.1 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://www.libde265.org/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/strukturag/libheif |
| Bottle | nicht erfasst |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Quellspur
Aus Repository-Daten generiert
Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Verwendete Quellen
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation