diff --git a/examples/heif_enc.cc b/examples/heif_enc.cc
index 8627dce062..791fa48ab7 100644
--- a/examples/heif_enc.cc
+++ b/examples/heif_enc.cc
@@ -349,6 +349,29 @@ static void show_list_of_encoders(const heif_encoder_descriptor* const* encoder_
 }
 
 
+static const char* get_compression_format_name(heif_compression_format format)
+{
+  switch (format) {
+    case heif_compression_AV1:
+      return "AV1";
+      break;
+    case heif_compression_HEVC:
+      return "HEVC";
+      break;
+    case heif_compression_JPEG:
+      return "JPEG";
+      break;
+    case heif_compression_JPEG2000:
+      return "JPEG-2000";
+      break;
+    case heif_compression_uncompressed:
+      return "Uncompressed";
+      break;
+    default:
+      assert(false);
+  }
+}
+
 static void show_list_of_all_encoders()
 {
   for (auto compression_format : {heif_compression_HEVC, heif_compression_AV1, heif_compression_JPEG, heif_compression_JPEG2000
@@ -687,7 +710,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
     active_encoder_descriptor = encoder_descriptors[idx];
   }
   else {
-    std::cerr << "No " << (compressionFormat == heif_compression_AV1 ? "AV1" : "HEVC") << " encoder available.\n";
+    std::cerr << "No " << get_compression_format_name(compressionFormat) << " encoder available.\n";
     return 5;
   }