avi to gif

[John Abreau]

I've used player in the past for this.

    mplayer -vo png file.avi

Instead of playing the video in a window, this writes each frame of
the video into a PNG image file in the current directory.

The -vo option tells mplayer to use a specific video output driver,
in the above example, one that writes frames to PNG files.Other
drivers include "gif89a" for GIF and "jpeg" for JPEG.

If you don't want to listen to the audio, add the option "-ao null".



On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Stephen Adler <adler-wRvlPVLobi1/31tCrMuHxg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I've a program which dumps out an animation in .avi format, but I would
> like it in gif so that I can include it in a power point presentation.
> Are there any tools which convert avi files into gif animation files?
>
> (The reason I'm trying to do this is that I have the notion that
> animated gif files are easier to move from one application to another.
> As like I can get them to display quickly in a web browser without much
> fuss...)
>
> Thanks. Steve.
>
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