Media

Video to APNG

Convert video clips to APNG (Animated PNG) format with transparency support and better quality than GIF

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

# 1) Upload each file first → returns { filePath }
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/upload/video-to-apng' \
  -F 'file=@/path/to/videoFile.ext'

# 2) Call the tool with the returned filePath values
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/video-to-apng' \
  -F 'videoFile=/path/to/file.ext' \
  -F 'fps=15' \
  -F 'startTime=0' \
  -F 'duration=10' \
  -F 'width=0' \
  -F 'height=0' \
  -F 'quality=90' \
  -F 'optimize=true'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/video-to-apng

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
videoFile	fileupload required	Yes	—
fps	number	No	Animation frame rate (max 30fps recommended)
startTime	number	No	Start conversion from this time
duration	number	No	Maximum 30 seconds for APNG
width	number	No

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-video-to-apng": {
      "name": "video-to-apng",
      "description": "Convert video clips to APNG (Animated PNG) format with transparency support and better quality than GIF",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=video-to-apng",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "video-to-apng",
    "arguments": {
  "videoFile": "https://example.com/file.ext",
  "fps": 15,
  "startTime": 0,
  "duration": 10,
  "width": 0,
  "height": 0,
  "quality": 90,
  "optimize": true
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).

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