Creating animated GIFS with mplayer
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Looking for a quick fire way to create an animated GIF from sections of video's I didn't need to look any further than the multimedia swiss-army knife of the linux world, mplayer/mencoder and ffmpeg.
First is to playback the video and find the section you want. Tweak the "-ss" parameter to find the starting point and the "-endpos" for the finishing point of your video clip.
Use mplayer again to write out the animated GIF file. Adjust the "scale" parameter to adjust the size of the animated GIF which is useful if you're going to use it as a signature for web forum etc.
mplayer -ao null -loop 0 -ss 0:11:22 -endpos 5 file.avi
First is to playback the video and find the section you want. Tweak the "-ss" parameter to find the starting point and the "-endpos" for the finishing point of your video clip.
mplayer file.avi -ao null -ss 0:11:22 -endpos 5 -vo gif89a:fps=25:output=animated.gif -aspect 16/9 -vf scale=-2:100
Use mplayer again to write out the animated GIF file. Adjust the "scale" parameter to adjust the size of the animated GIF which is useful if you're going to use it as a signature for web forum etc.
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