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Searched if Imagetoolbox had that option, but didn't find it.

Are there any good FOSS apps that can convert videos to gifs?

I remember Video transcoder from the past. It does not seem to be in Fdroid currently, as it is probably too old.

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Don't know an app, but https://ezgif.com/ is an excellent webpage for this.

[–] RandamuMaki@mstdn.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] 1Malayali@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you

Are there any apps that allow us to use custom ffmpeg commands?

[–] RandamuMaki@mstdn.social 2 points 1 day ago

@1Malayali I'm sure there might be. I just use it in terminal.

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No recommendations from me, but have you tried using the ffmpeg wasm webapp? It looks to have a gif option and it runs locally. For just making a gif I imagine it's fine enough to get the job done.

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's cool, but the files are large (not surprising since GIF wasn't meant for video). Any way to get more control over the output?

[–] 1Malayali@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Thank you.

The scaling seems to make the the gif quality a bit too low.
Is there a way to get it from 200 to maybe 300 or 400?

Edit: .Searched and found another website that allows custom commands.
Thank you

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

RE your edit, mind sharing just for the record & personal edification? Or is it the ezgif site from the comments?

[–] exaybachae@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I looked around for a good long while and did not find anything online for andriod at all... However that doesn't mean there isn't any out there, i might have just missed it, or maybe there's an app that can do it but doesn't really advertise.

There are free closed source and ad supported stuff gallore, Giphy, for example. You may need to go outside FOSS to find what you need.

Or, there are Open and Free PC tools.

Sorry, good luck.

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't do this stuff, but maybe this?

[–] 1Malayali@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I tried it, but it seems to export as mp4

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're comfortable with the command line, ffmpeg is available in Termux & I believe should be able to do what you want (either with your original source, or the mp4 that app I linked earlier outputs}.

[–] 1Malayali@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you.
Will probably resort to that if there no other options

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah I was going to suggest doing this, though on a PC instead of a phone.