https://github.com/hughsk/gif-video

Convert a GIF image into an HTML5-ready video for considerably better file sizes
https://github.com/hughsk/gif-video

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Convert a GIF image into an HTML5-ready video for considerably better file sizes

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hughsk/gif-video
• Owner: hughsk
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-01-25T02:42:26.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-05-19T20:29:20.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-14T01:10:19.707Z (9 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 930 KB
• Stars: 67
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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README

        
# gif-video [![Flattr this!](https://api.flattr.com/button/flattr-badge-large.png)](https://flattr.com/submit/auto?user_id=hughskennedy&url=http://github.com/hughsk/gif-video&title=gif-video&description=hughsk/gif-video%20on%20GitHub&language=en_GB&tags=flattr,github,javascript&category=software)[![experimental](http://hughsk.github.io/stability-badges/dist/experimental.svg)](http://github.com/hughsk/stability-badges) #

Convert a GIF image into an HTML5-ready video for considerably better file

sizes. Much like [gfycat](http://gfycat.com/about), except you can process

and host it yourself.

## Usage ##

[![gif-video](https://nodei.co/npm/gif-video.png?mini=true)](https://nodei.co/npm/gif-video)

### `require('gif-video')([options])` ###

Returns a transform stream which takes a GIF buffer as input, and spits out

a video file on the other side.

``` javascript

var createStream = require('gif-video')

var fs = require('fs')

fs.createReadStream('input.gif')

  .pipe(createStream({ height: 200 }))

  .pipe(fs.createWriteStream('output.webm'))

```

`options` will be passed onto the

[stopmotion](http://github.com/hughsk/stopmotion) module, with the exception

of `inputCodec` which is forced to be `gif`.

## Dependency on FFmpeg ##

`gif-video` depends on you having [ffmpeg](http://www.ffmpeg.org/) in your path,

with support for [webm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM) enabled. You can do

this easily using [homebrew](http://brew.sh):

``` bash

brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx --with-libvorbis --with-fdk-aacc

```

## License ##

MIT. See [LICENSE.md](http://github.com/hughsk/gif-video/blob/master/LICENSE.md) for details.