Someone on Reddit made a gif.
I decided to try remaking the gif.
My gif is not the same color as their gif.
I opened the video source of the gif in VLC and MPC-HC, took snapshots using the program menus, took screenshots using PrtSc, and exported the frame (from both the gif and the video) using ffmpeg: https://i.stack.imgur.com/p9Xj6.jpg
The ffmpeg image from the video matches VLC's snapshot, but does not match the screenshot of VLC (unless "Use hardware YUV->RGB conversions" is disabled). The screenshot of VLC seems to be the closest match to the frame from the gif. MPC's snapshot and screenshot are nearly identical, but they don't match the other images (though they are closer to the gif than to VLC's snapshot).
I would tends towards trusting ffmpeg over the video players, except neither of them are close - except VLC with "Use hardware YUV->RGB conversions" disabled. I believe VLC uses ffmpeg, so that would explain why VLC's snapshot matches ffmpeg's frame export. I would guess that MPC also uses "Use hardware YUV->RGB conversions", though I can't find a setting to change this.
Is ffmpeg extracting the frame wrong, or is "Use hardware YUV->RGB conversions" at fault? Or is it something else?
(The video is Monogatari: Second Season ep 13 at 22:57)
