Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: comp.graphics.misc Subject: Re: ffmpeg BMP-GIF Conversion Quality Question Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:36:11 +0900 Lines: 16 Message-ID: <87wpvcqy10.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: individual.net 0pQT5pbXbM+XEvylUwN6uQG+6dfFxC8e7DuSfBQ5hyjxIwWA4j Cancel-Lock: sha1:Dx76x7Il3n8ofYH/QQFEMAjHxfo= sha1:ygtXNE3XJkxg8668n7l50Hw0Wkc= System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.misc:515 As Willi mentions, there are fundamental limitations to GIF that make it hard to get really high-quality output. It sounds like ffmpeg is not really the best tool to use for this, but you might be able to make it a bit better by e.g. tweaking the dithering. You're probably never going to get something really attractive though. I did a google search for: ffmpeg options dither -audio ...which returned a few promising looking hits. -miles -- Dawn, n. When men of reason go to bed.