HEIF-INFO(1)

💖 HEIF-INFO(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual — this is the page for heif-info, and no cap, it's lowkey one of the most useful little tools in the whole libheif situation. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

heif-info — show information on HEIC/HEIF file

like, that's the whole vibe. you point it at a HEIC/HEIF file and it tells you stuff about it. main character energy fr fr 👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

heif-info [-d|--dump-boxes] [-h|--help] [-v|--version] filename

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

heif-info shows information on a HEIC/HEIF file. that's it, that's the girl. you hand it a filename, she hands you the tea ☕✨

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -d, --dump-boxes — shows a low-level dump of all MP4 file boxes. yes, all of them. it's giving forensic scientist 🔍 it's giving unhinged amounts of detail. obsessed.
• -h, --help — shows help. a filename is not required or used, so you can just vibe and ask for help with zero commitment 🫶
• -v, --version — shows version info for the tool, the library version, and the plugin path. also no filename needed or used. cute little triple threat 💖

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⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

• 0 — success! slay, it worked 🌈
• 1 — failure. and bestie, that could be a syntax or usage error, or an error while loading image. so if you see a 1, check your flags AND check your file, okay? don't just assume 😭

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💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? an issue? something acting up? please report bugs or issues at:

https://github.com/strukturag/libheif

do NOT suffer in silence, that's not the vibe 🙈

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Dirk Farin, struktur AG

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright © 2017 struktur AG

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ngl this whole page is a <rainbow>libheif</rainbow> moment, so if you need more, the SEE ALSO energy lives at that same repo 💜

and that's the page, bestie!! thanks for reading all the way to the end, you're literally iconic — this was HEIF-INFO(1) from the General Commands Manual, and yes she's still serving 💅✨🌸