On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 09:59:25PM +0200, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 7 May 2014 00:37:41 +0200, Alessandro Ghedini <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been working on merging the GIF encoder from ffmpeg, since libav's 
> > doesn't
> > seem to work very well (in my tests anyway), and my initial approach has 
> > been to
> > simply copy/paste lavc/gif.{c,h} and lavf/gif.c, make them compile and see 
> > how
> > it goes (I'm using libav.git).
> > 
> > While I've been able to compile the whole thing (with a little bit of work, 
> > due
> > to missing av_copy_packet() and ff_alloc_packet2()), I'm still having 
> > problems
> > apparently related to pixel formats.
> > 
> > Basically, when I'm using ffmpeg (ffmpeg -i test.mkv test.ffmpeg.gif) it 
> > selects
> > "bgr8" and everything goes fine.
> > 
> > > Output #0, gif, to 'test.ffmpeg.gif':
> > >     Stream #0:0: Video: gif, bgr8, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 
> > > 200 kb/s, 100 tbn, 30 tbc
> > 
> > but when I use avconv, it selects "gray" (which is not what I want):
> > 
> > > Output #0, gif, to 'test.libav.gif':
> > >     Stream #0.0: Video: gif, gray, 1920x1080 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 
> > > 200 kb/s, 100 tbn, 1k tbc
> > 
> > and if I use "-pix_fmt bgr8" the output image is broken.
> > 
> > Compare [0] generated with ffmpeg, and [1] genenerated with "improved" 
> > avconv.
> > 
> > I've also tried copying lavu/pixdesc.{c,h} too, but nothing changed, and it
> > happens with all the other input files I've tried, so it shouldn't be 
> > specific
> > to the input file used.
> > 
> > Does anyone have an idea of what may be causing this? (e.g. if there's a 
> > special
> > avconv option I have to use, or if it is a bug in the gif encoder or in 
> > other
> > parts of libav).
> > 
> > If you want to test this I've setup a fork of libav.git at [2] with my WIP
> > patches (they still need to be split in proper commits) in the "gif" branch.
> > 
> 
> ping
> So what happened to sending this?

There's some more work to do (fix tests, fix vf_scale, import decoder too), but
I don't have much time for it right now so I had to put it aside. I still plan
to finish this at some point though, it's just not very high in my todo list at
the moment.

Cheers

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