[geeks] Scriptable Video Processing

[Phil Stracchino]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> And would you mind explaining what the animation optimizer is supposed
> to do?  Googling for gimp animation optimizer returns only the source
> code, foreign language pages, and a link to something awful that would
> require me to create a login first to view.
> 
> Looking through the source code, it looks like it is made to optimize a
> sequence for best gif animation compression.  It doesn't actually spit
> out % difference values at all in a way that the original poster could
> use in a script.

It takes a series of frames, takes the first frame as a baseline, then
reduces the succeeding frames to deltas.

It appears, though, I misremembered the original question.


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