Fli2Gif

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Fli2Gif is a utility I wrote to take an input 8-bit FLI/FLC movie file and output a Netscape-enhanced Animated GIF image. Each frame of the flic file is cropped to the smallest region necessary to contain the image by discarding regions containing only a specified background color. It allows the creation of interlaced or transparent GIF images. It will also automatically suggest possible background colors if inefficient cropping is detected.

[edit] About the FLI/FLC file format

For more information about the flic format, as well as other programs that work with them visit this location.

Some proposed extensions to the FLI/FLC standard are available here.

[edit] Downloads

Version 1.1 of this utility was released on 6 Sept, 1996 and fixes a major compression bug that prevented it from being able to process many flics. Also new in this version is a Win32 version that does not have any of the conventional memory limitations that the old version had.

The included source was designed to be cross-platform compatible and it should be able to compile on most standard C++ implementations. I've tested it on numerous versions of GNU C++ on different UNIX flavors and also on DJGPP (for DOS) without any problems at all.

[edit] Other utilities

To convert AVI's or flics with multiple palettes or color-depths greater than 8-bits, you should use a utility like VFD 1.6g (Video for DOS) to process your animations first.

Dave's Targa convertor can convert sequenced image files into FLI/FLC movies.

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