avi to gif

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 08:51:05PM -0400, Stephen Adler 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...)

AVI isn't a single format; it's a meta-format, an encapsulation
that can carry all sorts of other things. For example, I've seen
AVI encoded with XViD, H.264, MJPEG, and RealVideo.

That said, either mencode (mplayer) or ffmpeg will be able to
convert just about anything to anything else.

-dsr-


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