A script to create a gif from a video!

video2gif.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Usage:
# $ video2gif.sh in.avi out.gif [width]
#
# Based on http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality-gif-with-ffmpeg.html

size=$3
if [ -z $size ]; then
  size=320
fi

rm "/tmp/palette.png" > /dev/null
palette="/tmp/palette.png"

filters="fps=10,scale=$size:-1:flags=lanczos"

ffmpeg -v warning -i $1 -vf "$filters,palettegen" -y $palette
ffmpeg -v warning -i $1 -i $palette -lavfi "$filters [x]; [x][1:v] paletteuse" -y $2