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diff --git a/doc/muxers.texi b/doc/muxers.texi index ae5301c..bb474c1 100644 --- a/doc/muxers.texi +++ b/doc/muxers.texi @@ -146,6 +146,40 @@ ffmpeg -i INPUT -f framemd5 - See also the @ref{md5} muxer. +@anchor{gif} +@section gif + +Animated GIF muxer. + +It accepts the following options: + +@table @option +@item loop +Set the number of times to loop the output. Use @code{-1} for no loop, @code{0} +for looping indefinitely (default). + +@item final_delay +Force the delay (expressed in centiseconds) after the last frame. Each frame +ends with a delay until the next frame. The default is @code{-1}, which is a +special value to tell the muxer to re-use the previous delay. In case of a +loop, you might want to customize this value to mark a pause for instance. +@end table + +For example, to encode a gif looping 10 times, with a 5 seconds delay between +the loops: +@example +ffmpeg -i INPUT -loop 10 -final_delay 500 out.gif +@end example + +Note 1: if you wish to extract the frames in separate GIF files, you need to +force the @ref{image2} muxer: +@example +ffmpeg -i INPUT -c:v gif -f image2 "out%d.gif" +@end example + +Note 2: the GIF format has a very small time base: the delay between two frames +can not be smaller than one centi second. + @anchor{hls} @section hls |
