ozheng1993 / video2gif

Programmatically generate animated GIF from video in Python(convert video to gif)

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.

Installation

1. Clone this repository
2. Install dependencies

   pip3 install -r requirements.txt

3. Run setup from the repository root directory

   python3 setup.py install

Getting Started

GUI

1. Start interface

   python3 vgif/main.py

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.

Interface

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)

CommandLine

• Usage:

Usage: video2gif.py [OPTIONS]

  Converts video to GIF.

Options:
  -i, --input PATH   input video file
  -o, --output PATH  output gif file path and name.
  --help             Show this message and exit.

• Just Give the Input:

python vgif/video2gif.py -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.:

python vgif/video2gif.py -i /myLocalDir/myVideo.mov -o /some_dir/out.gif

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.

Contributing

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

• update README
• update user interface