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README.md
gifgen
Simple high quality GIF encoding
If you've ever tried encoding GIFs with ffmpeg
there's a good chance your results came out looking pretty bad. This is because GIFs are limited to a palette of 256 colours and ffmpeg
just uses a generic palette to be able to cover a wide range of colours.
gifgen
produces much better results by doing a 2-pass encode. The first pass generates a custom colour palette based on all of the pixels from each frame. The second pass encodes the GIF using this palette instead of the default one bundled with ffmpeg
.
ffmpeg default:
gifgen:
Usage
$ gifgen -h
Usage: gifgen [options]
Options
-i Input file
-o Output file [input.gif]
-f Frames per second [10]
-v Display verbose output from ffmpeg
Examples:
$ gifgen -i screencap.mp4
$ gifgen -i SCM_1457.mov -o demo.gif
$ gifgen -i screencp.mp4 -f 15
Credits
gifgen
is pretty much just the information from this blog article wrapped up in a shell script. Full credit goes to the original author.
License
MIT © Luke Childs