[FFmpeg-user] create an animated GIF from set of images

[Paul B Mahol]

On 5/16/13, Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/5/17 Eugene Dzhurinsky <jdevelop at gmail.com>:
>> ffmpeg version 1.2.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
>
> Well, it is quite recent. For me _personally_ it is acceptable.

Its unacceptable version for gif encoding. That version creates
suboptimal (very big, thus useless) gif files.

If such encodings are acceptable for your personality, i'm ok with it too.

>
>> [gif @ 0xfbbbc0] ERROR: gif only handles the rgb24 pixel format. Use
>> -pix_fmt rgb24.
>
> You missed this error with a hint. Add such option straight before
> output file name.

Invalid reasoning. Do not use it if there is better opinion.