[FFmpeg-user] wrong colors in animated GIF

[Michael Koch]

Am 26.09.2019 um 15:06 schrieb Carl Eugen Hoyos:
> Am Do., 26. Sept. 2019 um 15:00 Uhr schrieb Michael Koch
> <astroelectronic at t-online.de>:
>
>> I'm using this animated GIF as input http://gosper.org/sidereal.gif
>> and process it with the most simple FFmpeg command line:
>>
>> ffmpeg -i sidereal.gif -y out.gif
> Did you also try the following "most simple FFmpeg commamd line"?
> ffmpeg -i sidereal.gif -qscale 2 out.avi

ok, that works fine.

>
>> Why are the colors wrong in the output?
> I suspect you didn't read about gif encoding with FFmpeg.
> (This is a known regression but unlikely to get fixed, output
> files were absurdly big.)

No, I didn't read about gif encoding. I did use other examples with gif 
output before and there were no problems.

Thanks,
Michael