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Here's my own video -> gif bash script: https://github.com/montanaflynn/vidtogif

And here's a one-liner using ffmpeg and ImageMagick:

  ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=600:-1 -r 5 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm - | convert - gif:- | convert -layers Optimize - output.gif

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Careful, your script and one liner generates a whopping 1.5mb file for a 3s movie.

While gifify generates a 1mb file for a 800 px wide, 20s screencast.

https://github.com/pornel/giflossy helps a lot, and works with unix pipes too, you can try it.

Optimized! :)

Also, gifify has lots of options like compression, resizing, speed, colors..

Of course, in the end, it's only a wrapper to ffmpeg - convert - gifsicle (giflossy).

But it helps a lot in achieving MOVIE -> GIF. In a command line way or programmatic way (i.e., you can write a server that uses it and stream gifs to the client).

Yes I was just looking at your implementation and must say it's better in numerous ways :)

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