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video2gif

Programmatically generate animated GIF from video in Python

With this video2gif converter you can upload any format of video and rich media files to turn them into high quality animated GIFs.

Requirements

Python 3.6+, pysimplegui,opencv-python and other common packages listed in requirements.txt.

Getting Started

1. Install

  • pip Install
    pip install vgif -U
  • source Install
    1. Clone this repository
    2. Run setup from the repository root directory
     python3 setup.py install

2. Start UP

🅶 GUI
  1. Start interface
    vgif-gui
    Instance Segmentation Sample
  2. Select video file
  3. Set options
  4. Click button "Start" to start
  5. Once started converter will save the output under the same folder ad source video
  6. Click button "ReStart" to re-start this process
  7. Click button "Exit" to end this program.

The options includes: * Video Sample Rate:Set sample rate for the source video (default sample every 10 frame) * Output GIF FPS: Set output GIF fps(default 10 fps) * Video Resize Rate: Shrink video n times smaller (default 2 times smaller)

🅲 CMD
  • Usage:

    vgif [OPTIONS]
    
       Converts video to GIF.
    
    Options:
       -i, --input PATH         input video file
       -o, --output TEXT        output gif file path and name.
       -s, --scale INTEGER      Scale the factor for frame_x and frame_y.
       -r, --resolution TEXT    The resolution factor for factor ( For Compress ),
                         like 1920x1080.
    
       -fps, --gif-fps INTEGER  The fps of the GIF.
       --help                   Show this message and exit.
  • Just Give the Input:

    vgif -i /myLocalDir/myVideo.mov

    This will generate the GIF with the same name to the same directory as the original file.

  • Give the file path for out.:

    vgif -i /myLocalDir/myVideo.mov -o /some_dir/out.gif

Development & Contribution

  1. Clone this repository
  2. Install dependencies
    pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Citation

Use this bibtex to cite this repository:

@misc{ouzheng1993,
  title={video2gif},
  author={ou zheng},
  year={2020},
  publisher={Github},
  journal={GitHub repository},
  howpublished={\url{https://github.com/ozheng1993/video2gif}},
}

To do

  • GIF Size
  • file output
  • Improve compression ratio and reduce generation size.
  • Select several frame GUI function.

Contributing

Contributions to this repository are welcome. Examples of things you can contribute:

  • update README
  • update user interface

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