Preview HEIC/MOV on NC27 installed on a Synology NAS Docker

Hi Everyone, i just wanted to share how i have been able to get a preview of my HEIC photos on my installation ( from Marius hosting Synology: How to Install Nextcloud Using Docker – Marius Hosting).

The first step was installing the imagemagick bundle
1/ sudo docker exec -u root Nextcloud apt-get upgrade
2/ sudo docker exec -u root Nextcloud apt-get update -y
3/ sudo docker exec -u root Nextcloud apt-get install libmagickwand-dev imagemagick -y

Then check if it is installed:
sudo docker exec -u root Nextcloud php -r ‘phpinfo();’ | grep HEIC

you should get this:

ImageMagick supported formats => 3FR, 3G2, 3GP, AAI, AI, APNG, ART, ARW, AVI, AVIF, AVS, BGR, BGRA, BGRO, BIE, BMP, BMP2, BMP3, BRF, CAL, CALS, CANVAS, CAPTION, CIN, CIP, CLIP, CMYK, CMYKA, CR2, CR3, CRW, CUR, CUT, DATA, DCM, DCR, DCX, DDS, DFONT, DJVU, DNG, DOT, DPX, DXT1, DXT5, EPDF, EPI, EPS, EPS2, EPS3, EPSF, EPSI, EPT, EPT2, EPT3, ERF, EXR, FAX, FILE, FITS, FRACTAL, FTP, FTS, G3, G4, GIF, GIF87, GRADIENT, GRAY, GRAYA, GROUP4, GV, H, HALD, HDR, HEIC, HISTOGRAM, HRZ, HTM, HTML, HTTP, HTTPS, ICB, ICO, ICON, IIQ, INFO, INLINE, IPL, ISOBRL, ISOBRL6, J2C, J2K, JBG, JBIG, JNG, JNX, JP2, JPC, JPE, JPEG, JPG, JPM, JPS, JPT, JSON, K25, KDC, LABEL, M2V, M4V, MAC, MAGICK, MAP, MASK, MAT, MATTE, MEF, MIFF, MKV, MNG, MONO, MOV, MP4, MPC, MPG, MRW, MSL, MSVG, MTV, MVG, NEF, NRW, NULL, ORF, OTB, OTF, PAL, PALM, PAM, PANGO, PATTERN, PBM, PCD, PCDS, PCL, PCT, PCX, PDB, PDF, PDFA, PEF, PES, PFA, PFB, PFM, PGM, PGX, PICON, PICT, PIX, PJPEG, PLASMA, PNG, PNG00, PNG24, PNG32, PNG48, PNG64, PNG8, PNM, POCKETMOD, PPM, PREVIEW, PS, PS2, PS3, PSB, PSD, PTIF, PWP, RADIAL-GRADIENT, RAF, RAS, RAW, RGB, RGBA, RGBO, RGF, RLA, RLE, RMF, RW2, SCR, SCT, SFW, SGI, SHTML, SIX, SIXEL, SPARSE-COLOR, SR2, SRF, STEGANO, SUN, SVG, SVGZ, TEXT, TGA, THUMBNAIL, TIFF, TIFF64, TILE, TIM, TTC, TTF, TXT, UBRL, UBRL6, UIL, UYVY, VDA, VICAR, VID, VIDEO, VIFF, VIPS, VST, WBMP, WEBM, WEBP, WMF, WMV, WMZ, WPG, X, X3F, XBM, XC, XCF, XPM, XPS, XV, XWD, YCbCr, YCbCrA, YUV

To activate the bundle, you have to bind it to the php by modifying the nextcloud config file ( = /docker/nextcloud/config/config.php).

Just insert this:

‘enable_previews’ => true,
‘preview_max_x’ => 1000,
‘preview_max_y’ => 1000,
‘enabledPreviewProviders’ => [
‘OC\Preview\TXT’,
‘OC\Preview\MarkDown’,
‘OC\Preview\PDF’,
‘OC\Preview\MSOfficeDoc’,
‘OC\Preview\JPEG’,
‘OC\Preview\PNG’,
‘OC\Preview\GIF’,
‘OC\Preview\BMP’,
‘OC\Preview\XBitmap’,
‘OC\Preview\MP3’,
‘OC\Preview\HEIC’,
‘OC\Preview\Movie’,
‘OC\Preview\MKV’,
‘OC\Preview\MP4’,
‘OC\Preview\AVI’,
],

before the last " ); " .

Finally restart the apache server in my case it was the “Nextcloud-CRON” container with the nextcloud:apache image, so i have just restarted it through the docker app (or “Container Manager”).

and " Et voilà "…

i hope this could help.

Ben