XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, rec.photo.digital   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Maria Sophia  wrote:   
   [...]   
      
   > While iOS does allow switching the codec for standard video (H.264 vs.   
   > HEVC), apparently that interoperability setting is not used for the short   
   > motion clip embedded in a Live Photo. For Live Photos, Apple always appears   
   > to encode the video portion as HEVC inside a MOV container, and there is no   
   > user setting I could find that forces H.264 for that specific stream. Even   
   > with "Most Compatible" enabled, Live Photos still produced HEVC video.   
      
     Thanks for the feedback. I already was afraid that (Apple's) Live   
   Photos would be a special case, i.e. not a 'normal' video. Oh well,   
   can't win them all.   
      
   [...]   
      
   > So the overall iPad-to-PC USB interoperability landscape is (AFAICT)...   
   >  a. Apple's iPadOS Live Photos always use HEVC video   
   >  b. Windows Explorer needs a HEVC-capable thumbnail provider   
   >  c. Icaros freeware solved that problem, preserving privacy   
   >  d. IrfanView needs DirectShow + modern codecs (LAV solved that)   
      
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