[MPlayer-users] RE : Re: Creating animated gif thumbnails of movies

[DaveG]

On Wednesday 24 October 2007, info at danielerossi.net wrote:
> For example in my file the color depth is supposed to be rgb24 but the
> quality in no more than a 8bit color depth.

GIF files are not capable of storing anything better than 8-bit, ie 256 
colours in an indexed palette.

You might try exporting the frames as individual png files then post 
processing through imagemagik to optimise the 8-bit palette on a frame by 
frame basis before re-assembling into a gifanim.

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_opt/

In particular, video to gif section here:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/video/#gif

-- 
Dave