Viewing HEIC Photos

[Padeen Coleman]

I've downloaded and installed the iview467_plugins_x64_setup.exe file but still have a blank window when trying to view .HEIC photos. I'm on a Win10/64 PC. What am I missing?

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I can view some, but not all. See HEIC Photos.

Can you view the HEIC photo in the attached archive?

You probably need to install some codecs.

* 62. TOOLS.DLL - This PlugIn contains some additional functions (like Text effects) for IrfanView.
(and some special formats, like: HEIC, AVIF; with installed codecs/extensions)?

[Padeen Coleman]

When I tried to open the attached file I received this notice:

IrfanView

\Local\Temp\d84e62fc-5506-41c5-95fe-bOO9fa3049bd_sample1.zip.9bd\sample1.heic: Can't read this file header !

Unknown file format, empty/damaged file or file not found !?

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Have you installed the Codecs?

[IrfanUserGuyxyx]

What codecs?

[rsbrux]

I am a bit confused. I would also like to use IrfanView for HEIC files on my Windows 10 PC, but I just get a blank screen (no error message). I have read the advice in various posts on the web to install codecs from the MS Store, but I can already view HEIC files in Windows Explorer. Doesn't that mean that the needed codecs are already present?

[IrfanUserGuyxyx]

I think you need CopyTrans

https://www.copytrans.net/support/how-to-open-heic-file/

[jopower]

I also have this problem. About 400 HEIC in my newer iPhone 15 need converting to JPG (or others). I tried adding HEIC as a custom file type in Options > Properties... > Extensions menu. No luck yet.

MS is getting an earful too. Search HEIC in: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/

[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.?