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From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid
Janis Papanagnou wrote at 08:13 this
Wednesday (GMT):
> 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
The "convert" command is considered outdated as of ImageMagick 7, it's
now the "magick" command. Unfortunately, Debian still ships 6.9.11-60.
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