Gifify
Creative
gif conversion
SHOW HN2014
48points
11comments
#671of 2,272 in 2014
Top 30%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
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0 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
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Produces much smaller files than a simple ffmpeg pipeline
From 2 comments
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.…
vvoyer on HNYes I was just looking at your implementation and must say it's better in numerous ways :)
anonfunction on HN
Numerous options for compression, resizing, speed and colors
From 1 comment
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.…
vvoyer on HN
Objections
Uses a fork of gifsicle whose linked repo shows unchanged README
From 2 comments
Why are you using that fork of gifsicle? I went to that repo to read the homepage but it was the unchanged gifsicle README.
llimllib on HNIt does implement support for lossy LZW compression which I assume he's using for this.
Nyr on HN
Requests
Command line tool to convert a GIF back into a movie
From 1 comment
I immediately thought of it too, it might be fun to do the movify to transform a gif to a movie, command line.
vvoyer on HN
Questions
Why a fork of gifsicle is used
From 1 comment
Why are you using that fork of gifsicle? I went to that repo to read the homepage but it was the unchanged gifsicle README.
llimllib on HN
Alternatives named
gfycat
From 1 comment
Next, take the Gifify output, upload to gfycat to get a optimised video file. Repeat until convergence.
redacted on HN
vidtogif bash script
From 1 comment
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…
anonfunction on HN
gifserver
From 1 comment
If you want to create a gif that represents the complete video in a short gif loop have a look at https://github.com/marlev/gifserver "I spent hours googling for a service that…
hetaali on HN