Last time I wanted to create some animations the API of both libvpx and ffmpeg looked so unfriendly (too much boilerplate required and too little documentation/examples provided) that I ended up writing a GIF encoder from scratch [0]. GIFs have some serious limitations, such as the 256 color limit and the fact that GIF players can't pause or seek, but for situations where these issues don't matter it's a decent format IMO. I use it to generate animations of terminal sessions [1]. WebM lossy compression wouldn't be good for it anyway.
[0] http://repo.or.cz/gifenc.git [1] http://repo.or.cz/congif.git 2016-01-06 19:20 GMT-02:00 FRIGN <d...@frign.de>: > On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 11:55:26 -0800 > "Leander S. Harding" <l...@lsh.io> wrote: > >> Modest proposal: let us define an animated-farbfeld format as a >> tarball of sequentially-name farbfeld files, perhaps with a metadata >> file containing frame times and looping information. > > To be honest, I am kind of on the webm-bandwagon for animations. > Animated gifs served the web well for over 10 years, but it's just > clear that animations served with image formats just won't cut it. > the problem is that compression algorithms won't be able to handle the > data as well as a video encoder could. > > It takes more thought to come up with a suckless video format, and to > be honest, I don't find this area to be as exciting or useful as the > area of image editing. > > Although I think your proposal was kind of creative, let's really > focus on the image format here. > > Cheers > > FRIGN > > -- > FRIGN <d...@frign.de> >
