Re: GIF encoding

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:28:57 GMT
Message-ID:
<78be175f6860c@uwe>
kitkat_robins@hotmail.com wrote:
...

I'm using the AnimatedGifEncoder.java (reference http://www.fmsware.com/stuff/gif.html).


I am familiar with it. In fact, I wrote a GUI front-end for
Kevin's library. You can find my GUI'd version here.
<http://www.physci.org/giffer/>

I have 15 gif frames, when I use the encoder my file size comes to
82kb, if I use an animated gif application it only comes to 40kb. Any
ideas why the file size is so much larger? How can I reduce the file
size?


It probably comes down to the Color Quantisation Quality
(upper right of the mainGUI). Note particularly the tooltip.
Play with that factor, and you'll probably see a size
reduction for some of the values. Try a variety of qualities,
the size of the resulting GIF can vary quite dramatically,
and in a not entirely 'intuitively obvious' way.

HTH

--
Andrew Thompson
http://www.athompson.info/andrew/

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