Comments on: What is a free program that will convert avi files to gif?

By: Mark S

Mark S — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:20:59 +0000

Puh, thats something I would really not suggest doing. GIF is limited to 256 colors per frame, which will likely make your AVI look horrible after converting. Also you should know, that GIF encodes each frame individually, while AVI formats generally only store differences between frames. Converting from AVI to to GIF will make the resulting file quite huge.

If you still want to do it, I’d suggest using a tool that can dump the single frames of the movie as individual JPG files and then feed those to a GIF animator. You can use mplayer for dumping and GiftedMotion for encoding (make sure, that the amount of JPG files and sizes stays reasonably small, otherwise encoding will take forever). The command to dump:

mplayer movie.avi -vo jpeg -frames 100

GiftedMotion is a GUI tool, no commandline invocation needed
References :
http://www.onyxbits.de/giftedmotion
http://www.mplayerhq.hu

By: Micky

Micky — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:33:59 +0000

if u can’t find good free software, u can try Movavi Video Converter,
Free download here:
http://www.flash-video-soft.com/movavi-video-converter-personal/
Convert videos between all formats & devices
- Movavi Video Converter supports 40+ video, audio, and image file formats

* Input Video Formats: AVI (DivX, XviD, etc.), DV AVI, MP4 (Sony PSP, Apple TV, iPod, iPhone, BlackBerry, etc), WMV (including Zune, Archos and Creative Zen), ASF, 3GP, 3GP2, 3GPP, 3GPP2, QuickTime (MOV, QT), DVD, VOB, IFO, VIDEO_TS, AUDIO_TS, MPG, MPEG 1,2,4, MOD, DAT, MJPEG, VCD, SVCD, H.263.
* Output Video Formats: MP4 (Sony PSP, Apple TV, iPod, iPhone, BlackBerry, etc), WMV (including Zune, Archos and Creative Zen), 3GP, 3GP2, 3GPP, 3GPP2, QuickTime (MOV, QT), MPG, MPEG 1,2,4, H.263, H.264, Real Media (RM, RMVB).
* Output Video for Mobile Devices: iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Zune, PDA/Pocket PC (including BlackBerry), Creative Zen, Archos, Epson media players, any cellphone.
* Output Audio Formats: MP3, WAV, WMA.
* Output Image Formats: JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF.
Hope it helps,
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By: Qiqi W

Qiqi W — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:54:59 +0000

you can try Tota video converter from http://www.effectmatrix.com/total-video-converter
, it can convert between audio/video formats including Video format(H264, MP4, WMV, AVI, MOV, RM, 3GP, flv, SWF, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, VideoCD, SuperVideoCD, DVD, etc.) and Audio format(AC3, AAC, MP2, MP3, MP4, RA, WMA, etc.).
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By: marcink99

marcink99 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:05:59 +0000

http://www.download.com/123-AVI-to-GIF-Converter/3000-2194_4-10392620.html there you go
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By: SoccerStar

SoccerStar — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:44:59 +0000

I agree google has all the answers if you know how to search right:
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Free avi to gif converter

By: saadj78611

saadj78611 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:08:59 +0000

lol im not sure seach for it on google
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