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Reading animated PNGs in Python?

PyPNG, the most widely used PNG library for Python, doesn't seem to support animated PNGs. There's a library for writing animated PNGs, but I can't find an equivalent one for reading them. Anyone know a way of getting the frames out of this little supported image format?

Solution

  • There's a library for APNGs now - https://github.com/eight04/pyAPNG

    > pip install apng

    Extract frames from APNG file:

    from apng import APNG

im = APNG.open("animation.png")
i = 0
for png, control in im.frames:
    png.save("{i}.png".format(i=i))
    i += 1

    It also supports creating APNGs.