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What formats would you suggest using for animation sequences when considering file size vs quality while being palette based? And what software would you advice using to produce them?

Also, what formats are supported when it comes to tracker mods? I need at least 8 channels for what I'm thinking of doing. I believe a mod would require less space than a full audio file, but I could be wrong.

Ogg theora (thwre iw plugin) but if you inwist of pallete. I would say apng...

Mod are literaly kb ... No need to worry

plouf wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 12:46 pm Ogg theora (thwre iw plugin) but if you inwist of pallete. I would say apng...

Mod are literaly kb ... No need to worry

I just have very poor playback performance on emulated Amiga environments with certain formats. Trying to find a perfect balance.

What is poor? Slow or quality ?
An emulated amiga (winuae) should vo way faster than the real thing as of today PC hardware

If you want speed in old machines you must go for CDXL , fat-weigrh but faster...

plouf wrote: ↑Sat Jul 26, 2025 10:11 am What is poor? Slow or quality ?
An emulated amiga (winuae) should vo way faster than the real thing as of today PC hardware

If you want speed in old machines you must go for CDXL , fat-weigrh but faster...

Well, it's mostly the playback speed. I get a couple of frames per second sometimes. AVI works best as I recall (I tried many different things), but the file size is massive.

I thought maybe I could convert an image sequence into an iff anim that could possibly work better. I don't know.

Iff anim and cdxl is similar technical and in size
Which is....bigger than avi.. (but avi depend on code. Not all avi are the same)

Im general best speed is with cdxl . And size ia huge

plouf wrote: ↑Sat Jul 26, 2025 8:21 pm Im general best speed is with cdxl .

Yes, CDXL is the only uncompressed format so should be fastest. IFF ANIM, GIF ANIM, AVI MJPEG all use compression so they should be slower.