HEIF

File Format
Name	HEIF
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics HEIF
Extension(s)	.heif, .heic
PRONOM	fmt/1101
Released	2017

HEIF (High Efficiency Image File Format) is the lossy image (and animation?) format defined by MPEG-H Part 12 (ISO/IEC 23008-12).

It is closely related to the HEVC video format, so in that way it is similar to BPG. It uses ISO Base Media File Format as a container format, so in that way it is similar to JPEG 2000.

Identifiers

Based on draft specifications, it uses the brands mif1 and msf1.

Links

• Wikipedia: High Efficiency Image File Format
• HEIF information from the MPEG website
• HEIF information from Nokia Technologies
  • Software at GitHub
• ISO/IEC 23008-12 (not free to download)
• How Apple is squeezing more photos into your iPhone

See also MPEG-H#Links.