Re: [FFmpeg-user] Couple of questions about GIFs

2020-12-24 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Am So., 20. Dez. 2020 um 20:18 Uhr schrieb MediaMouth : > 2 - My experience with GIFs is there is little (or no?) ability to control > the quality vs file size tradeoffs. > i.e. If you want a high res GIF, you necessarily will have a large file size > (In contrast to, say, JPGs or MP4s where you

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Couple of questions about GIFs

2020-12-20 Thread MediaMouth
> On Dec 20, 2020, at 12:10 PM, pdr0 wrote: > > But for web supported video in MP4 container, there is no native alpha > channel support directly (there are workarounds by using a HTML5 background > canvas and 2 videos) > > And for video - VP9, webm video does have alpha channel support , 8 or

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Couple of questions about GIFs

2020-12-20 Thread pdr0
But for web supported video in MP4 container, there is no native alpha channel support directly (there are workarounds by using a HTML5 background canvas and 2 videos) And for video - VP9, webm video does have alpha channel support , 8 or 10bit per channel , and is supported by modern browsers, n

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Couple of questions about GIFs

2020-12-20 Thread MediaMouth
On Dec 20, 2020, at 11:40 AM, Micael Silva wrote: > > I’m not so sure, but I think that no sound MP4 can autoplay. I’ve seen > situations like these before. Yeah, a quick, non-exhaustive test on MacOS 10.15.7 gave the following Safari: Autoplay works, whether sound set to 0 or not Chrome & Fir

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Couple of questions about GIFs

2020-12-20 Thread Micael Silva
On 20 Dec 2020, at 16:32, MediaMouth wrote:  > On Dec 20, 2020, at 11:28 AM, Micael Silva wrote: > > 1) Yes > > 2) GIF it’s a quite old since limited format. If I remember correctly GIF is > limited to a maximum of 256 colors in a pallet. You can use some tricks like > dithering to improve

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Couple of questions about GIFs

2020-12-20 Thread MediaMouth
> On Dec 20, 2020, at 11:28 AM, Micael Silva wrote: > > 1) Yes > > 2) GIF it’s a quite old since limited format. If I remember correctly GIF is > limited to a maximum of 256 colors in a pallet. You can use some tricks like > dithering to improve the quality and smooth the appearance but there

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Couple of questions about GIFs

2020-12-20 Thread Micael Silva
On 20 Dec 2020, at 16:18, MediaMouth wrote: Thanks to the recent FFmpeg notes on creating GIFs. I was unaware GIFs could handle transparency at all until then. Couple of additional questions: 1 - Am I understanding this correctly: A single pixel of a GIF can either be 100% opaque or 100% tran

[FFmpeg-user] Couple of questions about GIFs

2020-12-20 Thread MediaMouth
Thanks to the recent FFmpeg notes on creating GIFs. I was unaware GIFs could handle transparency at all until then. Couple of additional questions: 1 - Am I understanding this correctly: A single pixel of a GIF can either be 100% opaque or 100% transparent, no partial transparencies like you can