HEIF support

[tankist02]

On Linux the package for libheif includes some useful utilities: heif-convert, heif-enc, heif-info, heif-thumbnailer. On FreeBSD I see only the library, but no such utilities. Is there a reason for that?

 

[ssw01]

You may already be aware of this, but the swiss-army-knife of image processing graphics/ImageMagick7 has
an HEIF option which will enable it to convert to/from this format through the use of that library.

 

[tankist02]

Thank you, but of course the prebuilt package has this support disabled. I'll need to build from ports. And mixing fresh ports with quarterly packages might be interesting...

 

[SirDice]

And mixing fresh ports with quarterly packages might be interesting...

Switch to the latest packages or checkout the quarterly ports branch.

 

[scottro]

In my (somewhat limited) personal experience, if one files an RFE (Request For Enhancement) at bugzilla, stating you would like a particular option turned on with the package, they'll often do it. In my case, I think I was asking for libx265 with ffmpeg and it was added that week. From what SirDice is saying though, it looks like the latest package already has that option enabled. Ironically, a friend just sent me an HEIF file the other day which I couldn't convert.
The other option is to set up poudriere to build your ports with custom options.

 

[tankist02]

Switch to the latest packages or checkout the quarterly ports branch.

How can I make my ports tree to follow the quarterly packages? Currently I'm using portsnap - does it support versioning?

 

[Alain De Vos]

For quarterly ports I use,

git clone -o freebsd -b 2021Q2 https://git.FreeBSD.org/ports.git /usr/ports

 

[bsduck]

Currently I'm using portsnap - does it support versioning?

It doesn't. I use git too.

 

[0mp]

On Linux the package for libheif includes some useful utilities: heif-convert, heif-enc, heif-info, heif-thumbnailer. On FreeBSD I see only the library, but no such utilities. Is there a reason for that?

There is no reason (it's just that no one wrote a patch to enable that so far apparently). I'm working on a patch for that now. It should land later today.