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@ndarville
ndarville / webm.md
Last active September 30, 2023 18:56
4chan’s guide to converting GIF to WebM - https://boards.4chan.org/g/res/41212767

Grab ffmpeg from https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

It's a command line tool which means you will have to type things with your keyboard instead of clicking on buttons.

The most trivial operation would be converting gifs:

ffmpeg -i your_gif.gif -c:v libvpx -crf 12 -b:v 500K output.webm
  • -crf values can go from 4 to 63. Lower values mean better quality.
  • -b:v is the maximum allowed bitrate. Higher means better quality.
@chrisn
chrisn / popen3_test
Last active March 2, 2023 08:48
Ruby example of using Open3.popen3 with a select loop to read a child process's standard output and standard error streams.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'open3'
# Returns true if all files are EOF
#
def all_eof(files)
files.find { |f| !f.eof }.nil?
end