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v1.14.0 - codec plugins / svt-av1 backend

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@farindk farindk released this 15 Nov 14:22
· 958 commits to master since this release
  • adds SVT-AV1 encoder as AVIF backend
  • dynamic plugin interface for installing codecs independently from libheif (currently Unix only)
  • add XMP header compression (using zlib)
  • library should now be initialized with heif_init()
  • heif_convert: extract EXIF and XMP to separate files
  • heif_enc: add benchmarking function to compare codecs
  • copy EXIF/XMP between HEIC/AVIF files and JPEG/PNG in all kinds of combinations
  • remove EXIF orientation tag from input when converting to HEIC/AVIF and generate irot/imir boxes matching the input orientation