speaking of gif animations

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu May 6 09:12:52 EDT 2010


Chipp Walters wrote:

> The problem is that Rev doesn't handle the temporal RLE compression in GIFs.
> So, if you use such compression, you get the artifacting you were seeing.
> Most browsers handle this type of optimization just fine, as the GIFs only
> go in one direction: i.e. frame 1,frame 2, frame 3, etc. Temporal
> optimization stores just the changes between frames. But in Rev, you may
> need to play an animation backward or randomly, so that is the reason they
> do not support temporal optimization.

Does toggling the alwaysBuffer of the image have any effect on this 
rendering?

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