Record GIFs in linux :]

README.md

• Install ffcast
• chmod +x recordgif
• recordgif output.gif

recordgif

#!/bin/bash
TMP_AVI=$(mktemp /tmp/outXXXXXXXXXX.avi)
ffcast -s % ffmpeg -y -f x11grab -framerate 15 \
    -video_size %s -i %D+%c -codec:v huffyuv                  \
    -t 00:00:05                                               \
    -vf crop="iw-mod(iw\\,2):ih-mod(ih\\,2)" $TMP_AVI         \
&& convert -set delay 10 -layers Optimize $TMP_AVI ${1:-/home/$USER/Pictures/"GIF from ""`date`".gif}