[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Cleanse GIF muxer and encoder.

[Paul B Mahol]

On 4/17/13, Clement Boesch <ubitux at gmail.com> wrote:
> This commit removes the badly duplicated code between the encoder and
> the muxer. That may sound surprising, but the encoder is now responsible
> from the encoding of the picture when muxing to a .gif file. It also
> does not require anymore a manual user intervention such as a -pix_fmt
> rgb24 to work properly. To summarize, output gif are now easier to
> generate, code is saner and simpler, and files are smaller (thanks to
> the lzw encoding which was unused so far with the default .gif output).
> We can certainly make things even better, but this is the first step.
>
> FATE is updated because of the output being produced by the encoder and
> not the muxer (no lzw in the muxer), and in the seek test only the size
> mismatches.
>
> ---
>

If you plan on improving gif encoder (to use disposals, etc, there is
bunch of code and examples floating around) than LGTM.