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Update the software to ensure compatibility in the future

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Shazy
2018-03-10
2018-03-12
  • Shazy

    Shazy - 2018-03-10

    Hey maxst!

    This is no doubt a great piece of software that you have written, many thanks!

    With the world moving on to 64-bit architecture processors & OSes and talks going around that support for 32-bit softwares will be eventually dropped, I request you to kindly release a 64-bit version of your software to ensure "GIF to APNG" remains relevant in the future.

    If you decide to update the software, I would request further additions to make it even better. So my request are these:

    1. Could you please make it so GIF to APNG makes 8 bit apngs?

    2. Is it possible to include "pngquant" - http://www.pngquant.org in GIF to APNG?

    3. Could you please add the compression option "pngwolf-zopfli" - https://github.com/jibsen/pngwolf-zopfli, as it has better compression compared with "zopfli"?

    Once again, thanks for the wonderful software!

     
  • Max Stepin

    Max Stepin - 2018-03-12

    gif2apng already creates 8-bit apng files if the total number of colors will fit into 256 palette.

    zopfli is already pretty slow, pngwolf will make it even slower. And it will produce only very small size reduction, as gif2apng already tests the most likely combinations of filters.

    Eventually I'll release the 64-bit version, I just don't have much free time right now.

    Thanks for you input!

     

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