> HEIC was developed by the MPEG folks
And the MPEG folks were so cool with video, all that licensing BS. Sounds great. No thanks!
And the MPEG folks were so cool with video, all that licensing BS. Sounds great. No thanks!
MPEG the standards group is organized by ISO and IEC, along with JPEG.
The one you’re thinking of - MPEG LA, the licensing company - is a patent pool (which has since been subsumed by a different one[1]) that’s unaffiliated with MPEG the standards group.
Not wrong, but this is a different topic/objection than the GP's 'being locked into Apple's ecosystem'.
And as the Wikipedia article for HEIC shows, there's plenty of support for the format, even in open source OSes.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_For...
Debian doesn't seem to have a problem with it: