heif-info(1)

heif-info1

Show information on heic/heif file

Usage

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

Overview

heif-info Show information on HEIC/HEIF file.

Options

-d, --dump-boxes

Show a low-level dump of all MP4 file boxes.

-h, --help

Show help. A filename is not required or used.

-v, --version

Show version information for the tool, library version, and the plugin path. A filename is not required or used.

Exit status

0

Success

1

Failure (syntax or usage error; error while loading image).

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 11–12
  2. 13–Arch

--version since Debian 13 (Trixie); -h since Debian 13 (Trixie); -v since Debian 13 (Trixie).

-help until Debian 12 (Bookworm).

Bugs

Please reports bugs or issues at https://github.com/strukturag/libheif

Authors

Dirk Farin, struktur AG

From libheif 1.23.7-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.