HEIF Format Overview
This topic provides information about the native HEIF codec available through the Windows Imaging Component (WIC).
Codec Identity
The following table provides codec identification information.
| Formal Name(s) | High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) |
| File Name Extension(s) | heic, heif |
| MIME type | image/heic, image/heif |
| Specification Support | HEIF, ISO/IEC 23008-12 |
The following table lists the GUIDs used to identify the native HEIF codec components.
| Component | Friendly Name | GUID |
|---|---|---|
| Container Format | GUID_ContainerFormatHeif | e1e62521-6787-405b-a339-500715b5763f |
| Decoder | CLSID_WICHeifDecoder | e9a4a80a-44fe-4de4-8971-7150b10a5199 |
| Encoder | NOT AVAILABLE | NOT AVAILABLE |
Encoding
WIC does not provide a native HEIF image encoder.
Decoding
The WIC decoding API are designed to be codec-independent and image decoding for WIC-enabled codecs is essentially the same. For more information about image decoding, see the Decoding Overview. For more information about using decoded image data, see the Bitmap Sources Overview.