[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] gif89a output

[Joey Parrish]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:52:39PM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> hmm, why you use swscaler inside the plugin, -vop scale outside of is should 
> be enough or not?

Well, to be honest, it's because I copied that from vo_png.
Could you elaborate some on the difference between the two methods?
Or perhaps I'll just try reading the DOCS a bit more religiously...

> And is this patch free of licensing probloems? IMHO GIF has licensing issues, 
> but I'm not into that that much to know more.

Yes, of course.  I wouldn't have submitted it otherwise.  It uses libungif, which is 
pretty standard on most distributions.  libungif does not use LZW compression at all, 
resulting in slightly larger (but free) GIF output.  It is also API compatible (AFAIK)
with libgif, the gif library that /does/ use compression.  Systems that don't have
libungif tend to have libgif, and some boxen (redhat for sure, any others?) have libgif
as a symlink to libungif.  I don't know of any specific systems that use libgif over 
libungif, but I assume you would find that one some old Unix systems. (I'll have to ask
some IRIX users I know...)

> -- 
> Best Regards,
>         Atmos


--Joey

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