Extracting frames from HUGE animated gif

[Rye]

So I have this animated gif , with -


don't freak out -

a few thousand frames:

http://tinyurl.com/odk78wu



The usual command:

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convert image.gif  image_%d.gif

will just crash and burn.

Any ideas on this one ?

[snibgo]

Movies, including large animations, are handled better by ffmpeg than by ImageMagick.

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ffmpeg -i toyrobo.gif f_%06d.gif

[Rye]

This will however only extract the first frame of the gif...

how do I go on about extracting all ?

[rich2005]

Your file seems to have vanished but..

try this syntax

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ffmpeg -i inputfile.gif -f image2 image-%07d.gif

[snibgo]

The command I gave extracted 230,370 frames. For further help, see ffmpeg documentation.

[rich2005]

@snibgo

Just a word of explanation, and I had to go and look it up as well.

The ffmpeg syntax changed from pre version 1.2.1

AFAIK the windows IM comes bundled with ffmpeg and uses an older version.
With Linux, ffmpeg is a separate package installed as a dependency and you get whatever version is in the repo, almost certainly post 1.2

The syntax I offered, pulled from my notes is not quite correct and produces jpeg encoded single files. (never bothered me in the past, very little to do with animations)

The correct syntax is

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ffmpeg -i infile.gif -c:v gif -f image2 outfile%07d.gif

A more universal way is convert to png where

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ffmpeg -i infile.gif outfile%07d.png

which should work regardless of ffmpeg version.

[snibgo]

Thanks.

[Rye]

This is odd...

I tried both ways provided, but only one image is extracted...