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

[info at danielerossi.net]

DaveG wrote:
> 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
>   
Thank you everybody, DaveG, Joey  and Mario.
DR