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   From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com   
      
   On 16.07.2025 09:40, JJ wrote:   
   > On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:13:32 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:   
   >> On 16.07.2025 01:45, Marion wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> have an animated GIF. So I searched for the best way to take screenrecs,   
   >>> but too many programs showed up as potential Windows screen recorders.   
   >>   
   >>> But I'm curious, what do you use to record the screen to animated GIF?   
   >>   
   >> Why not use the Windows Snipping Tool (--S)? And I don't   
   >> see any advantage in converting the mp4 to animated gif format. But   
   >> if you really want:   
   >>   
   >> ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.gif   
   >>   
   >> I suppose, most people already have ffmpeg installed (it is a   
   >> command line tool, so it doesn't need to be "installed", but just   
   >> copied to your disk), because it is THE all-purpose video tool.   
   >   
   > Or just use the screen for the media source. ffmpeg can do a screen   
   > recording. e.g.   
   >   
   > ffmpeg -f gdigrab -framerate 20 -i desktop "e:\screen caps\output.gif"   
   >   
   > May want to experiment with the screen capturing method via the -f switch to   
   > see which one works best for your system and output image format.   
   >   
   > To OP: be aware that, GIF can only support up to 256 colors (not 16M).   
   >   
      
   I've used in the past from command line either 'ffmpeg' or 'convert';   
   the latter to combine plain images; it's from the ImageMagick package.   
      
   Janis   
      
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