Apple's iOS 11, which is expected to be released in the fall of 2017, has also revealed that "HEIF" and "HEVC (h.265)" are newly adopted as formats of images and videos captured by the camera . As a ...

The High Efficiency Image Format is used by Apple iPhones, and now Android smartphones, and it's an image format that, when saved, creates a smaller file-size but the image quality remains the same, ...

If you haven’t already experienced abbreviation overload, Apple has added two more to your plate: HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) and HEIF (High Efficiency Image File Format — yes, it’s short one ...

With the official release of iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra, Apple introduced support for a new image format called HEIF, which uses the file extension HEIC. Apple sees HEIF as a worthy successor to the ...

HEIF is a visual media container format standardized by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) for storage and sharing of images and image sequences. It is based on the well-known ISO Base Media File ...

Up until now, iOS devices have captured video in the MPEG-4/H.264 format, and still photos in JPEG. But with iOS 11 (on recent hardware), Apple is breaking with tradition and switching to a new set of ...

Since its release in 1992, the JPEG image format has been the go-to standard for digital photos. But in recent years, a new challenger has emerged that offers significantly better compression and new ...

I slices; 4:2:0, 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 chroma subsampling. HEIC coded animations that use several I‑slices; multiple images in a file; alpha channels, depth maps, thumbnails, auxiliary images; correct color ...

Today Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17123 for PC to insiders in the fast ring. While this release brings some bug fixes, it's main focus is the addition of the High Efficiency ...