return-gif

[joindn]

Enable the returned images to support animated formats, such as GIF and WebP.

[AUTOMATIC1111]

Wait... isn't there a webp option on line 118 below?

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The purpose of this PR is to enable AnimateDiff to respond a video via API. I'm not aware of any way that pillow can process mp4, so maybe we use another way - when a image is already a binary, we directly return; otherwise, process normally. I can take the responsibility of encoding it to b64 bytes.

[AUTOMATIC1111]

Well, two lines directly above added ones:

        if isinstance(image, str):
            return image

allow for exactly that.

[continue-revolution]

Yes. Let's do it in this way.

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@AUTOMATIC1111 That two lines have not been merged to master.

Can we merge the change of api.py to master now? In this way, I don't have to patch module.api.encode_pil_to_base64.

[AUTOMATIC1111]

Well, even if this PR is merged into dev, it won't be in the master... I feel that the time for new release is not yet.

[continue-revolution]

Thanks. I will patch encode_pil_to_base64 for the time being. I don't need this PR to support returning videos anyway.

[AUTOMATIC1111]

as we found out that there is a more general way to achieve what the author needed, this does not need to be merged; reopen the PR if there's more.