HEIC image support?

[joffer77]

What is the problem you are trying to solve with this feature?

Will there be support for using pictures in .HEIC format when registering items? Both iPhone and Android now uses this.

What is the solution you are proposing?

Add support for HEIC format

What alternatives have you considered?

Converting HEIC into JPEG, but it's just extra hassle

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[101br03k]

well, yes the phone and phone gallery etc do support heic on android, but I am not so sure about the browser, is it not that only safari supports heic nativly?

[joffer77]

Could HEIC be uploaded and converted to jpg/webp maybe in the process during upload of photo (HEIC)?
On the computer it's a bit easier to manually convert HEIC to jpg first, but not so much from the phone.

[tankerkiller125]

Please see:

#165
#369

iPhones from my understanding auto convert to a format supported by the upload format. At least when added during item creation. I'm not sure how this looks once your in the editing an item side of things.

I do not own Apple devices, and thus have no way to test anything related to them.

[101br03k]

Could HEIC be uploaded and converted to jpg/webp maybe in the process during upload of photo (HEIC)? On the computer it's a bit easier to manually convert HEIC to jpg first, but not so much from the phone.

Mayby check out https://github.com/C4illin/ConvertX, it does support heic converting.

[harrisony]

I suppose the question is, are you more interested in storing HEIC's or serving HEIC's.

If the answer is the latter, you would be better off using @nuxt/image (which includes a preconfigured local option in IPX or allows you to use a third party if thats your thing)

[tankerkiller125]

@harrisony @nuxt/image only works when Nuxt is in server-side rendering mode, or using an external provider (of which Homebox will not do or force), given we don't use server side rendering mode in production this library simply would not work for Homebox, and Homebox does in fact require it's own backend image conversion/optimization tooling.

[tankerkiller125]

Closing as part of #265 which will include image manipulation/conversion.