Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

I tried a few different options myself, trying to find the bottleneck. After replacing the GIF-writing part with giflib, I discovered that was NOT the bottleneck - leaving the color reduction and dithering. I experimented with different dithering methods and quantize settings, but none gave me the ...

I too experience problems with this. My code is very similar to that of the original poster, and my iPhone 3Gs takes 34 seconds to encode 15 images sized 320x320. I too suspected the quantizing, and so I added an explicit call to MagickQuantizeImages. The quantize, however, just take 2 seconds ...