Samsung heic files are not being imported

Software darktable
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I tried to import my Samsung heic files in DT (bot 3.8.1 and 4.0) on Ubuntu, but they are not being recognized. Is there anything I can do or install?

Thanks!

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You might find a solution here

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Thanks for the hint. I re-enabled it though after I discovered DT actually supports heic, so I’d like to stick with the image format and get DT enabled to recognise it.

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How did you enabled it?

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I mean I enabled it on my phone, in the settings. I’d like to get it enabled in DT as well.

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Acording to this pull request you need Exiv2 0.27.x with ISOBMFF enabled. So you may have to check the eiv2 version for your Ubuntu install…
(for completeness: Exiv2 is a separate library not bundled with darktable)

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One also needs to build dt w/ libheif (w/ its HEVC decoder dependencies) in addition to that. Don’t know how the Ubuntu package is built…

@Tsjoecha Please consider avoiding HEIF/HEIC completely as it is a patent-encumbered format and support for it in OSS will always be questionable.

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