HEIC support?

[adbancroft]

iPhone has stored & exported images using the HEIC format for ~6 years. But cbird doesn't appear to support them:
@Media::readEmbeddedMetadata{./IMG_1345.HEIC}$ exif exception: "./IMG_1345.HEIC" ./IMG_1345.HEIC: The file contains data of an unknown image type

Is it possible to add support for HEIC?

[scrubbbbs]

Thanks for reporting. I went to great lengths to support HEIC in v0.8 but at the end of the day I have to rely on what FOSS ecosystem can provide.

It seems HEIC image loading works, but metadata is not working on Windows. This was a relatively new addition to exiv2 library I am relying on (and is still buggy FWICT), I might be able to update it to a newer version to at least work with iphone photos.

You can ignore these warnings and will still be able to index the files and search them.

[adbancroft]

FYI, DigiKam uses exiftool as a backup metadata reader when exiv2 fails: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/tygw1u/to_work_around_exiv2_limitations_digikam_800_will/