ffmpeg / avconv

is pretty nice.

it can even do mp4 to gif conversion! 🙂

so what the user can do is:

and

  • then use ffmpeg / avconv to convert this mp4 to gif

howto:

hostnamectl; # tested on
  Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
            Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64
      Architecture: x86-64

# install ffmpeg / avconv and simple screen recorder
su - root; # become root
apt update
apt install ffmpeg simplescreenrecorder
Ctrl+D # log out root, become non-root again

# create new script
vim /scripts/mp4togif.sh

# content
#!/bin/bash
ffmpeg -i $1 -r 15 -vf "scale=512:-1,split[s0][s1];[s0]palettegen[p];[s1][p]paletteuse" $1.gif
[ESC]:wq # hit esc, then type :wq, write & quit in vim
# mark script as runnable
chmod +x /scripts/*.sh

usage:

/scripts/mp4togif.sh ScreenRec-2020-09-12_14.01.39.mp4

thanks and very very good and nice job all involved 🙂

example result:

taken from source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzp64s46r8w

1.4MByte mp4 was converted to 8.6 MB h:288px, w:512px (+600% in filesize X-D because gif is uncompressed)

never the less pretty useful for short animations, because it loop-plays directly in the browser

Links:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/648603/how-to-create-an-animated-gif-from-mp4-video-via-command-line

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