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Anonymous
Dear /gif/

I have a 30 minute long .avi file.

I am in Linux.

I only want to extract about 1-3 seconds of a specific scene to a looping .GIF.

What's the best software for doing this with minimal hassle?
>> Anonymous
     File :-(, x)
read the man pages for mplayer and ImageMagick

mplayer can output a video to a sequence of images. ImageMagick's animate can put those images into a gif
>> Anonymous
>>257913

mplayer can output directly to animated gif, too
>> Anonymous
From what I can glean of mplayer's manpagem it can only output from an entire .avi, not from a start frame/time to end frame/time. I only want 1-3 seconds worth of footage from this bigass .avi.
>> Anonymous
use mplayer -vo png to get png output and -ss to skip to the right place, ctrl-c when enough has played. then turn the image sequence into a gif.
>> Anonymous
Okay what I did was do -ss to get the video to start at a specific time.

Then I trained my ear for when I want it to end. Doing output to animated gif, I hit ctrl-c. The gif is fine now and it's what I want.

Only... it's 28 megabytes. Only about 4 or 5 seconds long, too.
>> Anonymous
>>257910

WHAT MOVIE IS THAT FROM?
>> Anonymous
SOURCE, PLEASE.
>> Babylonian !ffZeCDnor2
Watch the file in VLC, and hold CTRL+ALT+S when it's at the part you want. It will capture every third frame for you.
>> Anonymous
>>258425

I believe the original version of Metropolis by Fritz Lang. Not the gong-ching-ping-chong-chow version from a few years ago :3

>>258472

What the hell is VCL?