[Ffmpeg-devel] Animated GIF looping

[Todd Kirby]

On 6/2/05, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Thursday 02 June 2005 09:51, Todd Kirby wrote:
> > This patch adds the following option to ffmpeg:
> >
> > -gifloop            number of times to loop animated gifs (0 loops forever)
> 
> i dont see why this has to be gif specific, so it shouldnt contain  gif in its
> name

I wasn't aware of other image formats that support this and there was
already an option called loop. The other loop option seems to deal
with input images so I guess this one could be called loop_output.

> 
> 
> >
> > It is based on a previous patch by Rob Coenen.
> [...]
> 
> 
> > +int gif_loop_count = -1;
> 
> pasing this with a global variable is unaceptable

Seemed ugly to me too, but that's how the other loop option was
getting passed so I copied it. What is the preferred way to pass
options to libavformat modules?

> 
> [...]
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> Michael
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