[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Animated GIF Support

[François Revol]

On 14/10/2012 00:02, Clément Bœsch wrote:
>> Added gif demuxer. Changed gif decoder: now it supports all disposal methods.
> 
> And this is awesome, I was wondering the other day why we weren't able to
> ffplay generated animated gif...

Yeah always useful :-)

> 
> BTW, are you going to work on the encode? There is room for improvement
> there; I think it is intra-only at the moment (because the output gif are
> pretty huge). Also, you need some tricks to get a nice gif output (like
> doing things such as -vf ...,format=rgb8,format=rgb24 to get better
> colors).


I initially wrote it without compression as the patent was still valid
at the time IIRC, didn't anyone add it since then?

François.