[ale] video to animated gif

[Christopher Bergeron]

I believe the new package is called "webcam".  It comes with xawtv and
motv.  It captures at interval X and saves as an image.  You MIGHT be
able to use it in your application, although I don't think it's what
it was designed for.

HTH,
CB


Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 8:19:04 PM, you wrote:

G> Tomoki Taniguchi wrote:
>> Anyone know of a commandline program(s) to convert video files to animated 
>> gifs...  I am making an picture/video album to website.  I upload via cgi.  I 
>> have it creating thumbnails automatically for images.  I want to create 
>> animated gifs for thumbnails for videos...  

G> You'll need some kind of capture device.  There was a package called 
G> streamer that used to come with xawtv that would capture video to 
G> multiple images.  From there you could use ImageMagick or GIMP to fold 
G> them into your gif.

G> I've got xawtv installed on my box now, but streamer is not there.  If I 
G> recall, it's in another package that is prefixed by xawtv.

>> 
>> TIA,
>> Tomoki
>> 
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