Remember that you must have Docker installed and running. bashrc) 1Īlias video2gif='sudo docker run -v=`pwd`:/tmp/ffmpeg kafebob/video2gif'Īnd then just call the transformation like this 1 Sudo docker run -rm -v=`pwd`:/tmp/ffmpeg kafebob/video2gif video.mp4 video.gifĪlso to make your life easier, just create an alias in your profile (. In order to transform your videos into gifs run the container like this 1 The container weighs 30MB and the Dockerfile of this container can be found here. This container is for 圆4 architecture, if anyone needs it for Raspberry Pi please let me know in the comments.

So I thought, it would be nice to create a Docker image that encapsulates all the complexity of this process and allows me to get the desired result without having to install FFmpeg or having to remember commands and complex parameters.Īnd that’s what I did, a container called kafebob/video2gif based on Linux Alpine with ffmpeg installed and all the necessary adjustments for a proper conversion from video to gif. If you are interested to read details about these magic spells, I recommend you to read High quality GIF with FFmpeg. The drawback with this technique is that you have to write magic spells in the command line to get desired results. In you can find a repository with a curated list of awesome GIF resources here and I was interested in this technique based on FFmpeg, turns out ffmpeg can now output high quality GIF. Giphy is amazing but I ruled it out because I don’t want my gifs to be hosted in a datacenter in the middle of nowhere. Peek is also great, but at the time of writing this article, in my Arch Linux didn’t work properly. In the other hand, you can’t record anything other than a terminal session but it’s the service they offer and it works great. Actually, I used it in my article Self-signed Https support and I will continue using it. I had the opportunity to play with these tools:Īsciinema I love it!, IMHO is the best way to record a command line session and share it with colleagues. You know, an image is worth a thousand words. For a few days I have been looking for alternatives to transform short screencasts into GIF images in order to show you some ideas on my blog.

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