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Transform a video into an animated gif.
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vid2gif.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Extracted from: http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality-gif-with-ffmpeg.html#usage
palette="/tmp/palette.png"
filters="fps=15,scale=640:-1:flags=lanczos"
ffmpeg -v warning -i $1 -vf "$filters,palettegen" -y $palette
ffmpeg -v warning -i $1 -i $palette -lavfi "$filters [x]; [x][1:v] paletteuse" -y $2
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