sticker-convert

• Fix bug where animated stickers are not accepted by WhatsApp since v2.8.0
  • It was noted that pywebp would collapse all frames.
  • aed005b attempted to fix this by creating webp with variable frame duration.
  • However, the webp created would not be accepted by WhatsApp.
  • Solution: If there is duplicated frame, use Pillow to save WebP if available, or else use pywebp and display warning.
• Better compliance with wastickers format
• Fix compression success not shown if success on step 0

• Add option for padding (--padding-percent)
• Allow auto retry for telegram down/upload
• Fix deadlock if no files to compress
• Fix hanging during cancel job on Windows

• Fix job random hanging
• Remove opt_comp_experiment
• Code cleanup

• Fix first frame getting dropped
• Fix importing gif/webp/apng with variable frame durations
• Calculate mean color frame by frame instead of combining to one large array, saving memory
• Fix webp collapsing same frames, causing incorrect timestamps
• Avoid overwritting frame in pyav
• Remove wheel as build dependency

• Fix not trying to compress lowest step
• Pad odd dimension video in pyav instead of resizing and causing blur
• Fix png being decoded by pyav
• Decode gif with pillow

• Add --custom-presets option
• Auto load custom_presets.json from config directory for providing custom compression presets

Convert frames to alpha=0 or 255 first before creating gif

• Fix calculating average color of all frames
• Move code for converting yuva to rgba to a function
• Only determine background color once for each input file
• Kill workers with terminate without unecessary joining
• Update github action versions
• Update rlottie-python

• Fix calculating average color of all frames
• Move code for converting yuva to rgba to a function
• Update github action versions
• Only determine background color once for each input file
• Update rlottie-python

• Auto set best background color (Black if image is bright, or white if image is dark.)
• Add option --bg-color for specifying background color
• Fix crash if config.json contain missing values for comp_custom
• Fix quantize_method not saved to comp_custom
• Formatting for sticker_convert_colab

• Create gif with Pillow (#134)
• Change default scale filter to bicubic
• Fix incompatibility with python 3.8
• Improve requirements files
• Update pyav and improve typing

• Fix racing condition in GUI messagebox and progress bar

• Fix GUI freezing when cancel job
• Show msg and update progressbar in batch for GUI to improve performance
• Improve GUI for getting Signal credentials

• Improve speed of upload/download telegram stickers

• Fix random deadlocks during run (esp. When using scale_filter=nearest)
• Add box and hamming scale_filter
• Reduce recreating variables and reading json files
• Simplify compile.py
• Run docker image as non-root
• Bump github action macos version
• Improve typing
• Update dependencies

• Fix format_img and format_vid for CompOption in CLI
• Update emoji.json
• Fix support for python 3.8
• Auto linting and formatting

• Use tuple for compression option
• Fix not returning if found compatible file during convert
• Fix file_ext is None in CodecInfo
• Fix setting initial step during convert
• Update msicreator submodule
• Version locking wix 4.0.4 on github action
• Update github action requirements

• Use tuple for compression option
• Fix not returning if found compatible file during convert
• Fix file_ext is None in CodecInfo
• Fix setting initial step during convert
• Update msicreator submodule
• Version locking wix 4.0.4 on github action
• Update github action requirements

• Allow specifying Signal data directory with --signal-data-dir
• Reduce preset minimum resolution for Signal sticker
• Allow trying final step during conversion
• Stop progress bar when cancel job
• Update rlottie_python (Solves unable to convert tgs if no MSVCR on Windows)
• Improve SQL query for getting Signal uuid and password
• Improve docker build order
• Consistent cb_bar method signature
• Do not import av on startup
• Update sqlcipher3 with version containing typing stub
• Typing, formatting, linting

• Get Signal uuid and password from db directly with sqlcipher3, which is:
  • Faster
  • Does not require launching Signal with Selenium (Reduce dependency)
  • Allow extracting from non-beta version of Signal