[FFmpeg-user] PNGs with transparent pixels to GIF

[Paul B Mahol]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 1:24 AM Tom Sparks <tomasparks.ts at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24/12/2020, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Am So., 20. Dez. 2020 um 07:17 Uhr schrieb Tom Sparks
> > <tomasparks.ts at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> On 20/12/2020, vallance via ffmpeg-user <ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> >
> >> > I'm trying to create a GIF from an image sequence of PNGs with
> >> > transparent
> >> > pixels, but these transparent pixels convert to black in the resulting
> >> > GIF.
> >> > I'm using the following command :
> >> >
> >> > $ ffmpeg -i toile4-4-%d.png -framerate 12 toile4.webm
> >> >
> >>
> >> Imagemagick is more suited to creating animated gifs
> >
> > I was under the impression that FFmpeg contains particularly useful
> > algorithms to produce high-quality animated gifs, is that also true for
> > ImageMagick?
> >
>
> ImageMagick has some very good Color Quantization and Dithering
> methods[1][2] and animation modes[3] that ffmpeg dose not have/support
> (as far as I know)
>
> [1]: https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/quantize/
> [2]: https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/video/
> [3]: https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_opt/



No and no, I do not have time to argue against software quality like what
is imagemagick.
I also simple do not want to waste my time on this software.

If you want to evangelize your software, please do it somewhere else.

Here it is considered extremely rude.



>
> > Merry Christmas, Carl Eugen
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