Weird looking animated covers but fine on steamgriddb about cartridges HOT 9 CLOSED

Alright i guess i found the issue?

in ~/.local/share/cartridges/covers i found that the .gif files downloaded from steamgriddb had those artifacts in them. When opening steamgriddb and finding the exact same cover, downloading it (which it gave me as .webm), converting to .gif then made it so the animations are played properly.

So i guess it downloads some weird version from steamgriddb? Or if any conversion is happening, it appears to be at a too low quality

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gifs are pretty limited in quality by default. What tool did you use to convert gifs that made them look fine?

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i grabbed the .webm file instead of the .png file from steamgriddb and then simply used ffmpeg -i cover.webm cover.gif

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The SteamGridDB API seems to only point to images. Could you send me a link to a .webm file?

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tbh i don't really know any link that points to .webm files.

I use brave browser and the mediaplayer in it can download a media with a little menu. I don't really know where you could get them via API.

But i just found out that i can also just ffmpeg -i cover.png cover.gif and get the high-quality gif aswell.

So i guess all that would be enough is to grab the animated .png file and run ffmpeg on it.

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Converting animated PNGs, WebPs or WebMs still leaves me with gifs of the same quality. Are you sure the improvement in quality is not just perceived given that the original file is probably higher resolution than the one in Cartridges?

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This is also probably simply the case because gifs are limited to a 256 color palette.

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Also, the covers in the screencast you shared do actually seem to glitch. This does not happen on my side. Is this just a bug with the screencast or do they actually do that?

If so, this is probably due to some dependency issue. Could you try using the version from Flathub?

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I just wanted to take a new video to show that it's not just perceived. Also the screencast showed it true to nature how it was.

I now deleted every cover, cleared the cache and reimported all the games / covers to show you how they look when they come from import...

and of course now it works perfectly fine....No issue at all. I didn't update anything since yesterday lol. And i did reimport them multiple times yesterday when trying stuff out. So the process of reimporting the covers was not the solution by itself but i assume some process was broken yesterday and a reboot fixed it... idk

Thanks anyhow! :D

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