[FFmpeg-devel] Animated GIF support

[Paul B Mahol]

On 12/19/12, Don Moir <donmoir at comcast.net> wrote:
> I don't use ffmpeg for gif's but did a comparison of latest gif patches and
> found some problems with ffmpeg animtated gif support.
>
> Several had no transparency which should have been transparent and hears a
> couple samples of that:
>
> http://sms.pangolin.com/temp/chompy.gif  - shows gray background

With what program? What background should really be?
>
> http://sms.pangolin.com/temp/cool.gif  - shows black background
>

ditto

> This one gets transparency right but seems to have the wrong delay. The
> delay value I get is 15 which is 150ms. With ffmpeg its way
> to fast.
>
> http://sms.pangolin.com/temp/crazy.gif  - 2 frames and animates too fast

How are you sure that is gif demuxer/decoder fault?
Its delay is set correctly, it is player bug to ignore last frame duration.

>
> This one caused me to crash in avcodec_decode_video2:
>
> http://sms.pangolin.com/temp/heart.gif

Reproduced. Will explore it. Thanks.
>
> I have many more gifs that may cause problems and if you decide to fix the
> above I will test it some more. All of the above
> displayed normally outside of ffmpeg.
>
>
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