Use ffmped for GIF encoding

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Use ffmped for GIF encoding

dundalek opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

Hi, I have a suggestion for GIF encoding. Currently gifine uses imagemagick's convert to produce GIFs. Convert seems to try to load all raw images into memory. That often makes my system run out of memory and freeze (with 16GB of RAM).

Instead there are options for ffmpeg to produce GIFs with a reasonable quality, speed and memory usage. Here is an example how ffmpeg can be used: https://github.com/lukechilds/gifgen/blob/master/gifgen#L71

Would it be possible to add it as an encoding option?

leaf · Answer 1 · Sat Feb 09 2019 17:52:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I don't see why we couldn't add something.

what kind of gif are you creating that is causing your computer to run out of memory?

Jakub Dundalek · Answer 2 · Sat Feb 09 2019 21:28:34 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Usually some screencasts, around 1000px wide in 10 FPS, in the order of seconds or tens of seconds long.

What I do now is to export the recording as MP4 and then use the ffmpeg script to encode the GIF with no issues. But it would be nice to have that option as a single click.