eTFT GIF Converter

GIF to header (.h) generator for the ESP32 eTFT screens. [WIP]

Pre-requisites

Resize the gif or video and crop it with any tool for example with:

ImageMagic:

convert walk.gif -resize 25% walk-resized.gif

ffmpeg:

For example for a TFT display of 240x135 size:

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -r 4 -vf scale=240:-1 video.gif

Usage

./eTFT-gif-converter.py -i <RESIZED_AND_CROPPED_ANIM.gif> -o <HEADER_NAME>.h

Complete Example

git clone https://github.com/alex-arce/esp32-etft-gif-converter.git
cd esp32-etft-gif-converter.git
cp example/starcraft.gif .
./eTFT-gif-converter.py -i starcraft.gif -o animation.h

Adding it to Arduino / PlatformIO / C++

You could be use the animation.h header generated like this:

#include "animation.h"

void loop() {
    if(shutdown++ > 5) espDeepSleep();
    for (int i = 0; i < frames; i++) {
        tft.pushImage(
          2,                   // x position
          0,                   // y position
          animation_width, 
          animation_height, 
          animation[i]
        );
        delay(120);
    }
}

Full implementation example here

Thanks

Thanks a lot to Antonio Vanegas - hpsaturn for his tests and his help :-D