Agreed - I’ve been looking for a one liner to turn a series of stills into a gif for a while and buried in my todos is a note to read the documentation so thanks, I’ll read this when I’m done w/ a few other todos this morning.
Someone should do a gui for common tasks it can do line there used to be the Zenmap gui for nmap.
(Learning how to do those sorts of simple guis quickly in python of something is another holiday todo, if anyone has suggestions on that - all my tools thus far are gui based and I need to make sure as many folks as possible use them.)
A few years ago I went through exactly that kind of holiday todo list and created a few bash scripts for video-to-gif, gif-to-video, and image stabilization.
Here's the script I cobbled together from various internet searches for the video-to-gif one, it works well enough for that purpose and all you have to do is remove the video-to-PNG bits at the start.:
Thanks for the code! I'm going to pull down a copy and take a look and then later tweak it...
The goal is gonna be to have something where I can give it units of time as arguments and do clips. So for example, you could give it a dot mkv and say from 30 seconds in to 300 seconds in, take that into stills then create a GIF... or an aPNG but... I'll take a look, play around, I need to learn to read undocumented code better this will be a good exercise since it's not some possibly zero day malware that didn't get past noscript like the last time I did that...
(But to swing it back to graphics: there a reason people don't use apng more? The reason I got ages ago is PNG is more for line drawings, not raster images like what you'd normally use a JPEG format for, but it's my understanding you can play with settings and get a similar level of compression without the patent encumberment of things like GIF with aPNG, and that it's supported by pretty much every browser except for... [checks wikipedia] Internet Explorer[1]?)
Anyways TL;DR: sorry to wall of text you, I'm pounding caffeine and reading the news and jumping between several projects at once -- thanks for the code, I'm going to take a look later -- right now gotta switch locations in ~10 minutes like I'm a Tor circuit ;-)
Someone should do a gui for common tasks it can do line there used to be the Zenmap gui for nmap.
(Learning how to do those sorts of simple guis quickly in python of something is another holiday todo, if anyone has suggestions on that - all my tools thus far are gui based and I need to make sure as many folks as possible use them.)