Heic is becoming a common image file format

[Asger-P]

Hi
I would like to suggest that the heic file format, is added to the group of common image formats,
so that these automatically will show when opening batch conversion.
Best regards
Asger

[Kuki Dent]

You can add HEIC yourself: Options > Properties/Settings > Extensions > Select: Load custom filetypes > {add HEIC| to the list} > OK

[jopower]

Just did as you instructed, made all the custom file types included and made Irfanview 64 (v 4.70) default association for HEIC file display (Win 10). Double clicked several HEIC files and get only a blank Irfanview window. Do I have to edit out all the other file types and add ONLY the HEIC notation? Irfanview was \ running when I made the association. I closed it and reopenned it and tried to open HEIC but still blank. Do I need to restart PC t get it to work?

Also, can I convert from HEIC to others like JPG? Very important to get away from Apple dedicated format! No one else can open them either without Apple software. YUCK!!!

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

It depends on the HEIC file. Some open OK in IrfanView, some open as black (just 1 colour in file info).
Try XnView. That often opens files that IrfanView cannot handle properly.

[jopower]

I've solved my problem and hope this will solve yours:

There's a perfectly straight forward GUI solution (actually 3) available FREE (unless you are a business) from XnSoft: https://www.xnview.com/en/

XnViewMP, XnView Classic and XnConvert can all do the job of viewing and converting virtually every kind of graphic file, including HEIC files. I discovered this as I was going through my dozen installed but little used list photo editors after my default Irfanview wasn't working for HEIC files. Really saved my bacon! And, no I didn't have to install ImageMaick. (and if you really want to, command line options are available, but I didn't)

My old version 1.0 of XnViewMP from April 2022 handled 650-odd conversions with only a little experimentation with the settings for the batch file converter tool. This old version is a bit clunky and slow (it took 6 hours to convert my 15 GB pile of HEIC photos on an external USB drive) but the newer version (which I admit I should've updated to) does better. Here are the current versions:

XnViewMP 1.88 (Win 10 and 11)

XnView Classic 2.52.1 (pre-Win 11)

XnConvert 1.105.0 (all)

BTW: worth it to get the extended versions with all bells and whistles where they are available.

BONUS: there are MAC and Linux versions as well. I can only recommend most strongly all XnSoft products as they are way ahead of your HEIC curve.

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[IrfanUserGuyxyx]

You just have to load the windows HEIC codecs.