PIL - Convert GIF Frames to JPG

Question

I tried to convert an gif to single images with Python Image Library, but it results in weird frames

The Input gif is:

Source Image http://longcat.de/gif_exa

Answer 1

First of all, JPEG doesn't support transparency! But that's not the only problem.. As you move to the next frame of the GIF the palette information is lost (problem witn PIL?) - so PIL is unable to correctly convert to the RGBA framework (Hence the first frame is okish, but all the others are screwy). So the work-around is to add the palette back in for every frame, (which is what you were doing in your last code example, but your trouble was that you were saving as RGB not RGBA so you had no alpha/ transparency channel. Also you were doing a few unnecessary things..). Anyhow, here are the .png's with transparency and the corrected code, hope its of some use :)

import Image
import sys

def processImage(infile):
    try:
        im = Image.open(infile)
    except IOError:
        print "Cant load", infile
        sys.exit(1)
    i = 0
    mypalette = im.getpalette()

    try:
        while 1:
            im.putpalette(mypalette)
            new_im = Image.new("RGBA", im.size)
            new_im.paste(im)
            new_im.save('foo'+str(i)+'.png')

            i += 1
            im.seek(im.tell() + 1)

    except EOFError:
        pass # end of sequence

processImage('gif_example.gif')