GoHeif - A go gettable decoder/converter for HEIC based on libde265

Install

• heic2jpg to convert HEIC files to JPG preserving exif

go get https://github.com/yosgo-opensource/goheif

• Tested

  • Mac OS X (High Sierra)
  • Linux (Ubuntu 16.04 / GCC 5.4)
  • Windows 7 64bit with TDM-GCC 32 (GCC 5.1) and golang 1.12 windows/386

• Code Sample

func main() {
	goheif.Decode(file)
}

What is done

• Fixed MAX_PREFIX warning

• Changes make to @bradfitz's (https://github.com/bradfitz) golang heif parser

  • Some minor bugfixes
  • A few new box parsers, noteably 'iref' and 'hvcC'

• Include libde265's source code (SSE by default enabled) and a simple golang binding

• A Utility heic2jpg to illustrate the usage.

License

• heif and libde265 are in their own licenses

• goheif.go, libde265 golang binding and the heic2jpg utility are in MIT license

Credits

• heif parser by @bradfitz (https://github.com/go4org/go4/tree/master/media/heif)
• libde265 (https://github.com/strukturag/libde265)
• implementation learnt from libheif (https://github.com/strukturag/libheif)

TODO

• Upstream the changes to heif?