Bug 194554

Summary:	-delay option on convert does not work properly
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Kaplan <dmkaplan>
Component:	ImageMagick	Assignee:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede>
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Description David Kaplan 2006-06-09 00:01:32 UTC

Description of problem:
The option to set the delay between frames when creating an animated gif does
not work properly in the convert command.

For example, I have 3 gif images: test01.gif, test02.gif and test03.gif.  If I
try to make a pair of animated gifs out of them as follows:

convert test??.gif -delay 200 -coalesce anim1.gif
convert test??.gif -delay 1000 -coalesce anim2.gif

The two results are identical and the time between frames is the default - i.e.
it appears that -delay has no effect.  

I tried the same commands on a Redhat 9 machine running
ImageMagick-5.4.7-18.legacy and the operation worked correctly - the delay
between frames was slower and differed between images.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ImageMagick-6.2.5.4-4.2.1.fc5.3

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Get a few .gif frames together
2.Try to combine them into an animated gif with different delays using the
-delay option to convert
3.View them in firefox
  
Actual results:
Delay unaffected by settings.

Expected results:
Delay should be according to setting.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 03:04:17 UTC

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Comment 2 Hans de Goede 2008-04-26 07:36:53 UTC

Short intro: I'm a new co-maintainer of ImageMagick and as such walking through
all open bugs.

I can still reproduce this bug with the current rawhide version of ImageMagick.
I'll send a notice about this upstream.

Comment 3 Hans de Goede 2008-04-27 17:03:56 UTC

Here is upstreams reaction:

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> he option to set the delay between frames when creating an animated gif does
> > not work properly

Command line order is important.  The delay option is a setting, not an
operator:

  convert -delay 200 test??.gif -coalesce anim1.gif
  convert -delay 1000 test??.gif -coalesce anim2.gif

See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#why for a discussion on why the
ImageMagick command line style changed from ImageMagick 5 to ImageMagick 6.
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And I can confirm that using the upstream provided invocation fixes this, closing.