Please build the lib and update npm.
There are a lot of merged PR since the 0.1.6 version.

Thanks a lot

my png is transparent,but i can not get a transparent gif

if you look at http://i.imgur.com/wypWt11.gif in GIMP you'll see why it fits into 3.95k, each frame is a delta from the previous frame.

i did a screen record with lossless codec at 60fps, compressed with gifsicle, which computed the background, frame deltas and i think also removed identical frames (which may be fast to identify with a hash or similar) or maybe it merged identical frames into longer-delayed single frames.

the original image size was tiny, each square block is a pixel. so if #2 is addressed, this would probably scale & encode in a < 100ms.

for example,
I use canvas to show an animation.
when first frame is shown, i add this canvas to the GIF
then i show the second frame, and i add the second canvas to the GIF
and so on

Each version needs a corresponding tag to their versions, for bower to be able to successfully download pinned versions.

If I could pull request this, I would. Instead, for your convenience, anyone with push access can simply run this set of commands:

git tag v0.1.6 fe18289fa675333d36ba4cd9f86a56ffc20c3c5a
git tag v0.1.5 2a20675ff6c1daba4aa3641839db3147c38c29d5
git tag v0.1.4 faee238491302de05a1ed05e4fbe562738a76310
git tag v0.1.3 b69964025450110d4a0a99f9320331bd0a4ebb81
git tag v0.1.2 4ede1582155ec0084c654134f70c9a5e4e78a3f3
git tag v0.1.1 df58f6cd7658e39af8c2d06bfa4abcc108e4b177
git push --tags

This will then let bower download specific versions.

Hey gif.js is awesome !

I was wondering why using globalCompositeOperation was causing some weirdness

Like ex.

Only working with some :

http://jsfiddle.net/TC8q3/6/

but with just plain drawImage it works ?

http://jsfiddle.net/TC8q3/9/

Am I missing something ?

Anyway this is great !!!

thanks !

Hi, I'm sorry for the noob question, but what parts of the src folder should I include in my project if I want to get the ultimate commits?

Is there any way to "compile" so as to have the same as in the "dist" folder (gif.js and gif.worker.js)

Thanks a lot

Awesome project!

I'm trying to figure out how to encode/decode the comment extension using this library? Is it supported? If not, what are the first steps in adding support for it, because I'd be happy to do so.

I have 2 frames png source files, wanna to generate a gif. I use this library and get the following gif:

But I use rmagick library getting another different:

Here are my 2 frames source files:

Maybe it's about alpha issue.

I apologize in advance, I´m a noob.

When you retrieve the finished gif with 'createObjectURL(blob)', how can you save it to a gif in your SERVER? Do you have to change the blobURL to dataURL through ajax or can you use a html5 form? Is there a simple way of getting a .gif file (other than right clicking the image)?

Thanks for any help you can give and for your time. Cheers

I'm adding frames from a processing.js sketch using gif.addImage(document.getElementById("my_canvas_id"), 30);

when I call gif.render, when the rendering is finished, I get a

rendering finished - filesize 4180kb gif.js:1
Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Array] has no method 'set' (gif.js:1)
a.finishRendering (gif.js:1)
a.frameFinished (gif.js:1)
c.onmessage (gif.js:1)

Hi,
First, thanks for your work regarding this project!
I tried your online demo in my BB phone, which has a webkit based browser, that supports all the requirements of this script, so it should work fine.
But on the main demo page the rendering stops at 0%.
I checked the console for errors and I found this:

spawning worker undefined gif.js:1
starting frame 1 of 1 gif.js:1
spawning worker undefined gif.js:1
starting frame 1 of 1 gif.js:1
spawning worker undefined gif.js:1
starting frame 1 of 4 gif.js:1
starting frame 2 of 4 gif.js:1
TypeError: 'undefined' is not an object (evaluating 'o[a][0]') /gif.js/gif.worker.js:1

The same error appears on the all pages performing conversion.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
Best regards

It would drastically improve the quality of the gifs if we used generated color palettes.

This functionality is available in ffmpeg. Maybe we can port it to js.

Here's an article: http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality-gif-with-ffmpeg.html

Can anyone think of any reason I would be getting such output from gif.js?

spawning worker 0 gif.js:1
spawning worker 1 gif.js:1
starting frame 1 of 201 gif.js:1
starting frame 2 of 201 gif.js:1
Resource interpreted as Script but transferred with MIME type text/html: "file:///C:/Users/Vincent/Desktop/Software/Tools/Gyrographer/App/gif/". gif.js:1
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token <

Hi,

Is it possible to use gif.js synchronously, without "finished" event?

I wonder why do you create bindings with DOM etc. GIF encoder should be a tool, which receives ArrayBuffer (uncompressed image) and returns another ArrayBuffer (compressed image). If you want to make Canvas or an Image as an input, it should be built on top of GIF.js, not as the only input method.

Still haven't got around to trying your stuff (web workers are tomorrow), but thought you might like a look at this....
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3610419/JsGifStuff/Dithering.zip
...I did dithering!
Ive been looking around getting stuff for gif in js and was amazed no one had dithering so looked into it and found some nice AS to convert (the urls to the originals are in the source if you want to check my work).
Makes a real nice difference on gradients.
Sorry bout the awful test code ;) Im still in mucking around mode so I just throw what ever I need in there ;)
You want to look at the Bitmap.prototype.dither function at the end of dither.js.
Sorry bout the odd Bitmap class aswell ;) was just meant to give me something to work with and I know its odd.

Also while Im here, have a real good look at rgbQuant..it can do a MUCH better job than the other one alot of the time....dont give a dam if its slower....Im trying to get lots of options and they can decide if they want quick renders or production renders.

Hello,

I just figured out that in some points, when there is an other plugin in the page using postmessage, it has some side effects with gifjs.

I have in my page a youtube html5 player, and when gifjs is also loaded (whatever the loading order), I got this error:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Failed to execute 'postMessage' on 'Window': Invalid target origin '' in a call to 'postMessage'. GIFEncoder.js:55

I will check with some other scripts using postmessage if it does the same side effects anyway and keep you updated if I find a workaround.

Cheers guys, thank you for this awesome work.

Reference here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8776751/web-worker-dealing-with-imagedata-working-with-firefox-but-not-chrome

would it be possible to have gif.js operate as a frameclient? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frameserver)

i have a canvas animation that uses a single canvas element to draw separate frames. since gif.addImage does not extract ImageData when called, it is impossible to utilize different frames from the same canvas element. alternatively, .addImage can be made to accept extracted ImageData as well.

it would likely be easy, but memory-hungry to hold the imageData of all frames until .render() is called, but if the frame processing can be made eager instead of lazy, then a frameserver can stream frames from the same canvas element with the overhead dictated instead by worker count, cpu speed, encoder efficiency and config.

thanks!

Let me say to start that I'm not even sure I'm right on this. I'm seeing some behavior but I don't have a deep enough understanding of the gif spec to know if what I think is true, is.

That said: It looks like when someone uses setDelay with a delay ms < 5 it rounds down to 0, which is the default, and I think is not "run as fast as possible"? I'm not sure on that, but I'm seeing that gifs seem to run a little slow when they come out.

No idea if that's right, just wanted to run it by you.

It would also be good if rgba(0,0,0,0) pixels are converted to the transparent color

Would it be possible to add an option for restricting the number of colors used in the generated GIF?

Removing it in production is kind of a pain.

Hi.
When using Firefox the rendering proccess is very fast, but when using wekbit browser ( Chrome or Opera ) the speed is way slower. Why is that and is there something we can do about it?

Thanks.

I haven't access to webworkers in my environment. How can i run gif.js entirely in main process?

This is less of an issue and more of a notice.

This weekend as part of Node Knockout, I implemented gifsockets in JavaScript.

http://console-log.2013.nodeknockout.com/

I started from gif.js for the GIF encoding but had to fork it significantly for stream-like behavior (it was a hackathon after all) and performance.

I want to formalize the work and edits for gifsockets into the appropriate node modules. As a result, each class (e.g. GifEncoder, TypedNeuQuant, LZWEncoder) will need to become its own repo and node module.

I would not be opposed to collaborating but I think this is following a different direction than gif.js which is more targeted at the browser.

Is it possible to preserve the transparency of imported pngs?

Edit: This is exactly my issue: #46

options.background not work, there is no such property: ctx.setFill.

Ref:

This project seems interesting. Could you share some examples of how people are using it?

Is there a way to disable webworker because android < 4.4 does not support this feature?

Can you please register your library with Bower?

Thanks!

I've had some experience with workers doing communistjs here are some things I learned:

• workers are specified in the script but resolved relative to the html, i.e. calling your script as js/gif.js and gif.js would be different. My solution has been to surround the whole script in an if else clause which checks for typeof document === "undefined" and the script calls itself as the worker script, this also ends up being more portable.
• transferable objects on typed array buffers is fast if you don't have to waste time converting to them, considering you already using typed arrays this could speed things up...
• BUT Internet Explorer 10 will throw an error if you have an array as the second argument to post message (which you need for transferable objects) so you need to figure out how to deal with that.
• IE 10 also doesn't have Uint8ClampedArray arrays which can be helpful for image data.
• As far as I can tell workers simply process all messages they get in the order they get them and I have yet to conclusively figure out whether a queue type system like you have (and I have in some of my apps) actually has an advantage over just randomly spewing the data at an array of workers ala workers[~~(Math.random()*workers.length)].postMessage. The queue does have an advantage when the data processing times are very lumpy (some take much longer than others), though in other situations I have a suspicion the advantages may be outweighed by the overhead of the queue.

...or several images overlaid. this can probably be made generic as a layers implementation.

There's no need to use a separate file. I work in an enviroment where there's a single js file.
Instead you can use createObjectURL in order to provide code to the worker.
Ex: http://www.javascripture.com/URL

this could allow for much fast processing of frames since the encoder doesn't need to analyze pre-scaled-up images. nearest-neighbor upscale would be good for pixel art anims.

.

hi,I create a canvas element by reloading a remote script
then i use your code transfer to gif
for example get canvas element 2d context and gif.addFrame(canvasElement, {delay: 1000});
finally get a image of gif extension
unfortunately the gif image could not show annimate effect
I has seen your demo.first get canvas 2d context
then add
gif.addFrame(canvasElement, { delay: 1000 }); gif.on('finished', function(blob) { $("#canvasImage").attr("src",URL.createObjectURL(blob)); }); gif.render();
code segement
but my canvas element has been created
your idea that canvas element transfered to gif is getting 2d context and adding upper code segement
in short
getting 2d context and render gif need to operate at the same time
i don't know it is wrong.
code as it follows:

window.onload = function(){
var gif = new GIF({
workers: 4,
workerScript: 'PUBLIC/js/gif.worker.js',
quality: 15
});
var canvasElement = $("#anitOut canvas").eq(1)[0];
gif.addFrame(canvasElement, {
delay: 1000});
gif.on('finished', function(blob) {
$("#canvasImage").attr("src",URL.createObjectURL(blob));
});
gif.render();
};

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Only first frame is shown, does canvas not support drawing gif ? Or, there's a bug within the generated gif ? Thanks very much.

Hi,

Is it possible with your library to add frames to an existing gif at runtime? What I mean by that, is that I would receive a gif frame by socket.io and would like to append it to an existing gif animation. This would allow me to "stream" gif animation from the server.

ex.

If you specify {width: 213.5, height: 160}

and then do addFrame(image) or addFrame(canvas) the output be skewed and duplicated. If you specify 213 or 214 then it'll be fine.

I was getting this since I was rendering videos so I was specifying video.videoWidth / scaleFactor to downsize the video and it was making distorted gifs (the output looks skewed and you get the far right section of the picture on the far left).

I got Uncaught TypeError: Failed to execute 'getImageData' on 'CanvasRenderingContext2D': The provided float value is non-finite. error while executing below snippet.

            var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
            canvas.width = 150;
            canvas.height = 150;

            var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
            context.font = "bold 70px Helvetica"
            context.textAlign = 'center'
            context.textBaseline = 'middle'
            context.lineWidth = 3;
            context.fillStyle = "rgb(0, 0, 0)";

            var gif = new GIF({
              workers: 2,
              quality: 10
            });

            gif.addFrame(context, {copy: true, delay: 200});

So I'm using gif.js to write video frames to a canvas element to generate an animated GIF. That's all good on desktop, everything works great, GIF is perfect.

But I'm attempting to roll out a version working on the iPad (with iOS 8), and the bug I'm getting is super weird - essentially, the GIF will have random blocks of transparent background that don't appear on the desktop version. I've set background in my options like so background: 0x000000 but even with that, no good, still transparency. I've even written a solid black background to the canvas element using JS (which is then written over by the video frames), but when rendering, it still shows up as transparent.

Just throwing this out there as it's very peculiar and happens to ever GIF I create on mobile Safari using gif.js.

Especially for abort() and on "progress"

Hi Johan,

You said I was confusing gif libraries ?

Is there one I should be using instead of yours ?

thanks !

Hi,
I'm trying to use this library with require. I have added both files (gif and gif.worker) to the define and confirmed they are loaded in order (with a shim). The problem is, everytime I call render, it tries to import it by URL still:

10:55:26.393 spawning worker 0 gif.js:1:3912
10:55:26.384 ReferenceError: index is not defined
10:55:26.439 GET 
http://192.168.215.150/gif.worker.js [HTTP/1.1 404 NOT FOUND 21ms]
10:55:26.453 NetworkError: Failed to load worker script at "gif.worker.js"

Require config is:

        'gif': '../libraries/gif/gif',
        'gifworker': '../libraries/gif/gif.worker',

        'gif': { exports: 'gif', deps: [] },
        'gifworker': { exports: 'gifworker', deps: ['gif'] },

If I change exports to 'gif.worker', I get:

g is undefined

Any ideas?

Is there any way to stop/destroy a GIF while it's rendering? Something like:

gif = new gifjs.GIF({
    workers: 8,
    quality: options.quality,
    repeat: 0,
    width: options.width,
    height: options.height,
    workerScript: chrome.runtime.getURL('scripts/vendor/gif.worker.js')
});

// add frames here
gif.addFrame(...

gif.render();

// oh god this is taking too long please help
gif.stop(); // or gif.destroy();

i try below, but finished evnet is invoked. please help! gif.js version is 0.1.2.
<

1. !DOCTYPE html>
2. < html>
3. < head lang="en">

4. < meta charset="UTF-8">
   

5. < title></title>
   

6. < /head>
7. < body>
8. < div>

9. <i mg src="img/anim1.jpg" id="img1"/>
   

10. < /div>
11. </script>
12. </script>
14. window.onload = function () {

15.     v ar a = new Image();
    

16.     a.src = "img/anim1.jpg";
    

17.     a.onload = function () {
    

18.         var gif2 = new GIF({
    

19.             workers: 2,
    

20.             quality: 10
    

21.         });
    

22.         gif2.addFrame(a);
    

23.         gif2.on('finished', function (blob) {
    

24.             alert(2);
    

25.             // window.open(URL.createObjectURL(blob));
    

26.         });
    

27.         gif2.render();
    

28.     };
    

29. }
    

30. < /script>
31. < /body>
32. < /html>

this problem is moved to #56