• PopShark@lemmy.world
    4·
    11 months ago

    But can it convert animated webp’s back into the gifs they’re based off of anyway? That’s what makes me really hate the webp standard. If I save an animated image as webp no video converter will touch it that I’ve found. I just want my gifs and mp4s back :(

    • AbsentBird
      9·
      11 months ago

      You can convert it to frames with imagemagick, then use ffmpeg to turn that into a gif:

      magick animated.webp frames.png
      ffmpeg -i frames-%d.png animated.gif

      EDIT, or with a single imagemagick command:
      convert -format gif file.webp file.gif

      • shastaxc
        2·
        11 months ago

        Weird that it can’t get the format from that .gif extension

        • AbsentBird
          3·
          11 months ago

          Yeah, I was looking into that. They use the webp muxer for generating files, but not for decoding. I’m not sure exactly why. That seems to be the reason ffmpeg can generate animated webp, but not read it.