Create animated GIF in FireMonley

[kaarigar 1]

Is it possible to create animated GIF using FireMonkey? I have a set of images using which I want to create an animated GIF. Can someone point me to any component or a library that generates animated GIF in FireMonkey? Yhanks!

[Fr0sT.Brutal 897]

I doubt it. GIF is too old and also infected with proprietary license.

Do you really want to create GIF file or just some animation?

[Paul TOTH 2]

GIFs are now patent-free

 

https://burnallgifs.org/archives/

[kaarigar 1]

2 hours ago, Fr0sT.Brutal said:

I doubt it. GIF is too old and also infected with proprietary license.

Do you really want to create GIF file or just some animation?

I don't know about the proprietary license for GIF - the web is full of GIFs and now there are open source libraries to create and manage them.

I want to save the animation to a file - so I thought animated GIF may be a simplest way of doing so. The movie format MP4 would also do, but I thought that would be computationally more intensive.

Basically any format that can play animation is acceptable for my application. Thank you.

[Fr0sT.Brutal 897]

I wasn't aware GIF has cured of its license. However it's still outdated. Seems now APNG, MP4 and WEBM rule but whether use them or not depends on whether you can manage to find corresponding Delphi libs.

[Paul TOTH 2]

googling for FMX and GIF...

https://beyondvelocity.blog/2020/01/09/gif-animation-in-fmx/

 

the component:
http://www.raysoftware.cn/559.html
 

[kaarigar 1]

21 minutes ago, Paul TOTH said:

googling for FMX and GIF...

https://beyondvelocity.blog/2020/01/09/gif-animation-in-fmx/

 

the component:
http://www.raysoftware.cn/559.html
 

Thanks for pointing this out. It's a GIF reader that supports reading and displaying animated GIF. Perhaps I can see if I can write a GIF writer based on this.

[Paul TOTH 2]

oh sorry, you want to create GIF...I use GifCam for that, but if you need to this by code it's a bit complexe because GIF supports only 256 colors per frame

[Vincent Gsell 9]

On 10/17/2022 at 5:47 PM, kaarigar said:

Thanks for pointing this out. It's a GIF reader that supports reading and displaying animated GIF. Perhaps I can see if I can write a GIF writer based on this.

My 2 cents : 

For Displaying and animating :

- https://github.com/TomDannert/GIFImage 

- Skia4Delphi ! 

 

I do not advise you to use http://www.raysoftware.cn/559.html : It unfortunaly not work on all gif, and on recent compiler, it does not pass range checking.

Tom Dannert's version (https://github.com/TomDannert/GIFImage ) is a far better start if you want to write a Gif Writer. 

 

It is right that, under FMX, full cross platform (linux and mobile included), I do not have direct solution to write GIF.

 

[kaarigar 1]

47 minutes ago, Vincent Gsell said:

My 2 cents : 

For Displaying and animating :

- https://github.com/TomDannert/GIFImage 

- Skia4Delphi ! 

 

I do not advise you to use http://www.raysoftware.cn/559.html : It unfortunaly not work on all gif, and on recent compiler, it does not pass range checking.

Tom Dannert's version (https://github.com/TomDannert/GIFImage ) is a far better start if you want to write a Gif Writer. 

 

It is right that, under FMX, full cross platform (linux and mobile included), I do not have direct solution to write GIF.

 

Hi Vincent, thanks for your response. I will check out the Tom Dannert's version. There are also some other versions in circulation that are based on RaySoftware's and claim to be bug free. However, my interest in is *creating* animated GIF in Firemonkey for all platforms supported.

[XylemFlow 6]

I use the FFVCL component. It allows encoding using FFmpeg to many formats including animated Gif and animated PNG. FMX is supported and platforms Windows, Mac and Android. It's not free though and does require that you include the ffmpeg libraries with your app, which are quite large. The old gifimage code by Anders Melander works on VCL, but not FMX unfortunately. If you're running on Windows only then that may be an option though.

 

http://www.delphiffmpeg.com/

 

https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/Vcl.Imaging.GIFImg.TGIFImage

Edited October 21, 2022 by XylemFlow