[MPlayer-users] mencoder output png?

[Arpi]

Hi,

> Here is what I want to try to do.
> take a video file (avi, mpeg, whatever) and output it as animated gif 
> thumbnail.
> I know that animated gif isn't one of the supported formats, but as far as I 
why? it is. -vo gif89

> can determine mpng ( a format similar to animated gifs??? ) is a supported 
> format.
mpng is internal mplayer format, other players won't handle it

> I can find examples of encoding mpng files from multiple image files 
> (jpg,png).  Is it even possible to create a mpng from a video file?
yes


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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