On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 09:08:17PM -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 11/26/18 8:58 PM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
>Looks like there is a new image format in town and we need the libheif and
>libde265 libraries in order to read it according to the gimp plugin [1]. The
>plugin docs say it should be included by default now in gimp but the gimp on
>my f29 system says it can't read the file. This is probably because we don't
>have the underlying libraries in Fedora.
They would have to be provided through rpmfusion. I thought I saw a
comment a while back that getting the libraries in was being worked
on, but I could be mistaken.
Is there a license/patent problem? Debian has libheif in the regular
channels, but I guess as it uses a video codec it may have a patent
problem.
Rich.
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