[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #42775: Support uploading files in HEIF and HEVC formats

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#42775: Support uploading files in HEIF and HEVC formats
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 Reporter:  mattheweppelsheimer  |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement          |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal               |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Media                |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal               |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  administration       |
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 Mac OS X 10.13 High Sierra introduces support for new native image format
 HEIF and video format HEVF.

 These aren't widely used by anyone yet, and absolutely no browsers support
 displaying HEIFs at present (per CanIUse.com as of 2017-12-02
 [https://caniuse.com/#feat=heif]) — not even Safari. So this clearly isn't
 a big priority, but it seems likely these will become ubiquitous in time,
 and it would be good to at least support uploading these file formats,
 since they are valid media files.

 This was brought to my attention by this line in Ars Technica's review of
 OSX 10.13:

  The Ars WordPress CMS won't even let me upload HEIF files [...]

 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/macos-10-13-high-sierra-the-ars-
 technica-review/

 We should probably fix that. :)

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