RHEL Engineering is moving the tracking of its product development work on RHEL 6 through RHEL 9 to Red Hat Jira (issues.redhat.com). If you're a Red Hat customer, please continue to file support cases via the Red Hat customer portal. If you're not, please head to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira and file new tickets here. Individual Bugzilla bugs in the statuses "NEW", "ASSIGNED", and "POST" are being migrated throughout September 2023. Bugs of Red Hat partners with an assigned Engineering Partner Manager (EPM) are migrated in late September as per pre-agreed dates. Bugs against components "kernel", "kernel-rt", and "kpatch" are only migrated if still in "NEW" or "ASSIGNED". If you cannot log in to RH Jira, please consult article #7032570. That failing, please send an e-mail to the RH Jira admins at rh-issues@redhat.com to troubleshoot your issue as a user management inquiry. The email creates a ServiceNow ticket with Red Hat. Individual Bugzilla bugs that are migrated will be moved to status "CLOSED", resolution "MIGRATED", and set with "MigratedToJIRA" in "Keywords". The link to the successor Jira issue will be found under "Links", have a little "two-footprint" icon next to it, and direct you to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira (issue links are of type "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-XXXX", where "X" is a digit). This same link will be available in a blue banner at the top of the page informing you that that bug has been migrated.
Bug 1991257 - Exiv2 heic/heif unsupported
Summary: Exiv2 heic/heif unsupported
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: exiv2
Version: 8.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: beta
: ---
Assignee: Jan Grulich
QA Contact: Desktop QE
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 1979565
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-08-08 17:41 UTC by Aram Minasyan
Modified: 2022-10-06 11:29 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2022-10-06 11:29:11 UTC
Type: Bug
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-92823 0 None None None 2021-08-08 17:43:09 UTC

Description Aram Minasyan 2021-08-08 17:41:39 UTC 
**Description of problem:

exiv2 does not report metadata of heic/heif image files

**Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

exiv2-0.27.3-2.el8

**How reproducible:

always

**Steps to Reproduce:

run command exiv2 on a .heic image file


**Actual results:

# exiv2 pr IMG_0104.HEIC
Exiv2 exception in print action for file IMG_0104.HEIC:
IMG_0104.HEIC: The file contains data of an unknown image type
#

**Expected results:

using exiv2 version 0.27.4 (built with flag -DEXIV2_ENABLE_BMFF=ON)

# exiv2 pr IMG_0104.HEIC
File name       : IMG_0104.HEIC
File size       : 3094715 Bytes
MIME type       : image/heic
Image size      : 4032 x 3024
Thumbnail       : None
Camera make     : Apple
Camera model    : iPhone SE (2nd generation)
Image timestamp : 2021:07:30 15:46:36
File number     : 
Exposure time   : 1/33 s
Aperture        : F1.8
Exposure bias   : 0 EV
Flash           : No, compulsory
Flash bias      : 
Focal length    : 4.0 mm
Subject distance: 
ISO speed       : 400
Exposure mode   : Auto
Metering mode   : Multi-segment
Macro mode      : 
Image quality   : 
White balance   : Auto
Copyright       : 
Exif comment    :


**Additional info:

a version 0.27.4 build with .spec and srpm can be found here.

https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/aminasyan/el8-collection/epel-8-x86_64/02443660-exiv2/

Alternatively can this be requested as EPEL package if RedHat refuses to update exiv2?
Comment 1 Jan Grulich 2021-08-11 16:06:22 UTC 
I'm afraid this won't be possible because of software patents. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1979565.

Let's see what's the response from Legal.
Comment 2 David 2022-09-02 23:16:29 UTC 
FWIW, perl-Image-ExifTool in the standard Fedora repos does read HEICs.
Comment 3 Tomas Popela 2022-10-06 11:29:11 UTC 
Let's close this and reopen it when the legal issues will be resolved in Fedora.
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.