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Convert a video to a gif file.
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Video2GIF.sh
#!/bin/bash
#
# Usage: video2gif myvideo.mp4
#
temp_dir=/tmp/video2gif-`tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 < /dev/urandom | head -c 8`
echo "Using temp directory $temp_dir"
mkdir "$temp_dir"
ffmpeg -i "$1" -r 15 -vf scale=-1:-1 "$temp_dir/frame-%04d.gif"
convert -delay 1x15 -loop 0 "$temp_dir/frame-*.gif" "$temp_dir/animation.gif"
mv "$temp_dir/animation.gif" "$1.gif"
rm -Rf "$temp_dir"
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