I complained to Amazon Vine about a product that couldn't be ordered, and
their robots told me to send a screenshot to humans at a support address.
<https://amazon.com/vine/about> (click on the support links)

The robot only wanted a "screenshot" but to see the problem, it's better to have an animated GIF. So I searched for the best way to take screenrecs,
but too many programs showed up as potential Windows screen recorders.
cutescreenrec
obsstudio
screentogif
licecap
sharex
apowerrec
camstudio
debut
dvdvideosoft
ezvid
flashback
gamedvr
gilisoft
goplay
icecream
ispring
screencastomatic
tinytake
wisdom
aviscreenclassic
bsr
captura
chrispc
em
fdr
freecam
hypercam
wink
vclip
uscreencapture
jing
streamobs
etc.

I ended up first trying "LICEcap" simply because it was the smallest
download, where it worked simply by starting the executable, pressing
record, and then choosing a location, where oddly, it started recording.

<https://www.cockos.com/licecap/>
<https://www.cockos.com/licecap/licecap132-install.exe>
Name: licecap132-install.exe
Size: 256960 bytes (250 KiB)
SHA256: B1E7EAF6B275BFB820BFFA790082B36DD4EAB1C06A54B3D508C7BAD304B1D518

Personally, I think it should be the other way around instead...
a. First select a location
b. Then press record

That's how the second program I tried worked, which was ScreenToGif,
which brought up a GUI afterward which allowed saving options.
<https://www.screentogif.com/>
<https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif/releases/download/2.41.3/ScreenToGif.2.41.3.Setup.x64.msi>
Name: ScreenToGif.2.41.3.Setup.x64.msi
Size: 74326016 bytes (70 MiB)
SHA256: 846189DB3400C824C21F4C226A86B5DFFEB0500A1043BFD0D33471C704F995E5
C:\app\editor\screenrec\screentogif

Notice both did almost exactly the same thing but one is huge compared to
the other (even though they seemed to be very similar in use model).

But anyway, it worked for the purpose that I needed it to.
But I'm curious, what do you use to record the screen to animated GIF?

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On 16.07.2025 01:45, Marion wrote:

have an animated GIF. So I searched for the best way to take screenrecs,
but too many programs showed up as potential Windows screen recorders.

But I'm curious, what do you use to record the screen to animated GIF?

Why not use the Windows Snipping Tool (<WIN>-<SHIFT>-S)? And I don't
see any advantage in converting the mp4 to animated gif format. But
if you really want:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.gif

I suppose, most people already have ffmpeg installed (it is a
command line tool, so it doesn't need to be "installed", but just
copied to your disk), because it is THE all-purpose video tool.



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On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:13:32 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:

On 16.07.2025 01:45, Marion wrote:

have an animated GIF. So I searched for the best way to take screenrecs,
but too many programs showed up as potential Windows screen recorders.

But I'm curious, what do you use to record the screen to animated GIF?

Why not use the Windows Snipping Tool (<WIN>-<SHIFT>-S)? And I don't
see any advantage in converting the mp4 to animated gif format. But
if you really want:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.gif

I suppose, most people already have ffmpeg installed (it is a
command line tool, so it doesn't need to be "installed", but just
copied to your disk), because it is THE all-purpose video tool.

Or just use the screen for the media source. ffmpeg can do a screen
recording. e.g.

ffmpeg -f gdigrab -framerate 20 -i desktop "e:\screen caps\output.gif"

May want to experiment with the screen capturing method via the -f switch to see which one works best for your system and output image format.

To OP: be aware that, GIF can only support up to 256 colors (not 16M).

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On 16.07.2025 09:40, JJ wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:13:32 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:

On 16.07.2025 01:45, Marion wrote:

have an animated GIF. So I searched for the best way to take screenrecs, >>> but too many programs showed up as potential Windows screen recorders.

But I'm curious, what do you use to record the screen to animated GIF?

Why not use the Windows Snipping Tool (<WIN>-<SHIFT>-S)? And I don't
see any advantage in converting the mp4 to animated gif format. But
if you really want:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.gif

I suppose, most people already have ffmpeg installed (it is a
command line tool, so it doesn't need to be "installed", but just
copied to your disk), because it is THE all-purpose video tool.

Or just use the screen for the media source. ffmpeg can do a screen recording. e.g.

ffmpeg -f gdigrab -framerate 20 -i desktop "e:\screen caps\output.gif"

May want to experiment with the screen capturing method via the -f switch to see which one works best for your system and output image format.

To OP: be aware that, GIF can only support up to 256 colors (not 16M).

I've used in the past from command line either 'ffmpeg' or 'convert';
the latter to combine plain images; it's from the ImageMagick package.

Janis


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On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:13:32 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:

I suppose, most people already have ffmpeg installed (it is a
command line tool, so it doesn't need to be "installed", but just
copied to your disk) ...

ldo@theon:~> ls -l /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 361952 Dec 15 2024 /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

Not large, but

ldo@theon:~> ldd /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007f209ca3f000)
libavdevice.so.61 => /usr/local/lib/libavdevice.so.61 (0x00007f209c992000)
libavfilter.so.10 => /usr/local/lib/libavfilter.so.10 (0x00007f209c400000)
libavformat.so.61 => /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.61 (0x00007f209c000000)
libavcodec.so.61 => /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so.61 (0x00007f209aa00000)
libpostproc.so.58 => /usr/local/lib/libpostproc.so.58 (0x00007f209c97d000)
libswresample.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libswresample.so.5 (0x00007f209c95b000)
libswscale.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libswscale.so.8 (0x00007f209c351000)
libavutil.so.59 => /usr/local/lib/libavutil.so.59 (0x00007f2099800000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f2099710000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f209951a000)
libdrm.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm.so.2 (0x00007f209c944000)
libxcb.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f209c917000)
libxcb-shm.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-shm.so.0 (0x00007f209c912000)
libxcb-shape.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-shape.so.0 (0x00007f209c90d000)
libxcb-xfixes.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-xfixes.so.0 (0x00007f209c348000)
libasound.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2 (0x00007f20993f9000)
libcaca.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcaca.so.0 (0x00007f209a938000)
libSDL2-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f209920c000)
libsndio.so.7 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsndio.so.7 (0x00007f209c334000)
libv4l2.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libv4l2.so.0 (0x00007f209c324000)
libXv.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXv.so.1 (0x00007f209c31d000)
libX11.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f20990c4000)
libXext.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 (0x00007f209c308000)
libpocketsphinx.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpocketsphinx.so.3 (0x00007f209c2bc000)
libsphinxbase.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsphinxbase.so.3 (0x00007f209bfba000)
libbs2b.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbs2b.so.0 (0x00007f209c2b4000)
liblilv-0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblilv-0.so.0 (0x00007f209bfa1000)
librubberband.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librubberband.so.2 (0x00007f209bf42000)
libmysofa.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysofa.so.1 (0x00007f20990b3000)
libflite_cmu_us_awb.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libflite_cmu_us_awb.so.1 (0x00007f2098c00000)
libflite_cmu_us_kal.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libflite_cmu_us_kal.so.1 (0x00007f2098a9b000)
libflite_cmu_us_kal16.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libflite_cmu_us_kal16.so.1 (0x00007f2098600000)
libflite_cmu_us_rms.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libflite_cmu_us_rms.so.1 (0x00007f2098000000)
libflite_cmu_us_slt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libflite_cmu_us_slt.so.1 (0x00007f2097c00000)
libflite.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libflite.so.1 (0x00007f2099075000)
libtesseract.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtesseract.so.5 (0x00007f2097800000)
libass.so.9 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libass.so.9 (0x00007f2099035000)
libva.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libva.so.2 (0x00007f2098ffe000)
libvidstab.so.1.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvidstab.so.1.1 (0x00007f2098a86000)
libzimg.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzimg.so.2 (0x00007f2098529000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00007f2098a38000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f2097730000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f2098a18000)
libxml2.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2 (0x00007f2097579000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f2098a05000)
libgme.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgme.so.0 (0x00007f20984d8000)
libmodplug.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmodplug.so.1 (0x00007f20973e5000)
libopenmpt.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenmpt.so.0 (0x00007f2097000000)
libchromaprint.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libchromaprint.so.1 (0x00007f20989ed000)
libbluray.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbluray.so.2 (0x00007f2097397000)
libssl.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.3 (0x00007f2096ef2000)
libcrypto.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.3 (0x00007f2096800000)
librabbitmq.so.4 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librabbitmq.so.4 (0x00007f20984c0000)
librtmp.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librtmp.so.1 (0x00007f20984a2000)
libsmbclient.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbclient.so.0 (0x00007f2097bd6000)
libvpx.so.9 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvpx.so.9 (0x00007f2096400000)
libwebpmux.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebpmux.so.3 (0x00007f20989de000)
liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f2097366000)
libaribb24.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libaribb24.so.0 (0x00007f2097352000)
libdav1d.so.7 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdav1d.so.7 (0x00007f209621b000)
libdavs2.so.16 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdavs2.so.16 (0x00007f2096149000)
libopencore-amrwb.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopencore-amrwb.so.0 (0x00007f209733a000)
librsvg-2.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librsvg-2.so.2 (0x00007f2095a00000)
libcairo.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcairo.so.2 (0x00007f2095ffb000)
libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f20972d7000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f20958a8000)
libzvbi.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzvbi.so.0 (0x00007f2096e60000)
libsnappy.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsnappy.so.1 (0x00007f20972ca000)
libaom.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libaom.so.3 (0x00007f2095200000)
libcodec2.so.1.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcodec2.so.1.2 (0x00007f2094000000)
libfdk-aac.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfdk-aac.so.2 (0x00007f20950a7000)
libgsm.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgsm.so.1 (0x00007f20972b9000)
libmp3lame.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmp3lame.so.0 (0x00007f2096787000)
libopencore-amrnb.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopencore-amrnb.so.0 (0x00007f209587b000)
libopenjp2.so.7 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenjp2.so.7 (0x00007f2095809000)
libopus.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopus.so.0 (0x00007f2093c00000)
libshine.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libshine.so.3 (0x00007f2097bca000)
libspeex.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libspeex.so.1 (0x00007f209729b000)
libtheoraenc.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtheoraenc.so.1 (0x00007f20957cf000)
libtheoradec.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtheoradec.so.1 (0x00007f2096e43000)
libtwolame.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtwolame.so.0 (0x00007f2095081000)
libvo-amrwbenc.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvo-amrwbenc.so.0 (0x00007f2095063000)
libvorbis.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbis.so.0 (0x00007f2095035000)
libvorbisenc.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbisenc.so.2 (0x00007f2093b55000)
libwebp.so.7 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebp.so.7 (0x00007f2093f7e000)
libx264.so.164 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libx264.so.164 (0x00007f2093800000)
libx265.so.209 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libx265.so.209 (0x00007f2092800000)
libxavs2.so.13 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxavs2.so.13 (0x00007f2092400000)
libxvidcore.so.4 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxvidcore.so.4 (0x00007f20926e8000)
libsoxr.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsoxr.so.0 (0x00007f2093ae9000)
libva-drm.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libva-drm.so.2 (0x00007f209a931000)
libva-x11.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libva-x11.so.2 (0x00007f209849a000)
libvdpau.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvdpau.so.1 (0x00007f2098ff8000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f209ca41000)
libXau.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f20989d9000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f2097ff8000)
libslang.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libslang.so.2 (0x00007f2092000000)
libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f20926ae000)
libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007f2092678000)
libpulse.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpulse.so.0 (0x00007f2091fab000)
libsamplerate.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamplerate.so.0 (0x00007f2091e3d000)
libXcursor.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1 (0x00007f2096e36000)
libXi.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXi.so.6 (0x00007f20957bb000)
libXfixes.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXfixes.so.3 (0x00007f209677f000)
libXrandr.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrandr.so.2 (0x00007f2095028000)
libXss.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXss.so.1 (0x00007f2097292000)
libgbm.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgbm.so.1 (0x00007f2096779000)
libwayland-egl.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-egl.so.1 (0x00007f2096774000)
libwayland-client.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0 (0x00007f2093f6b000)
libwayland-cursor.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-cursor.so.0 (0x00007f209501e000)
libxkbcommon.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxkbcommon.so.0 (0x00007f20923b5000)
libdecor-0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdecor-0.so.0 (0x00007f2093ade000)
libbsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x00007f2092662000)
libv4lconvert.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libv4lconvert.so.0 (0x00007f2091dc1000)
libblas.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libblas.so.3 (0x00007f2091d40000)
liblapack.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblapack.so.3 (0x00007f2091600000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f2091200000)
libserd-0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libserd-0.so.0 (0x00007f2092648000)
libsord-0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsord-0.so.0 (0x00007f2093ad4000)
libsratom-0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsratom-0.so.0 (0x00007f209263d000)
libzix-0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzix-0.so.0 (0x00007f20915f1000)
libfftw3.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfftw3.so.3 (0x00007f2090e00000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f20915c4000)
libflite_usenglish.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libflite_usenglish.so.1 (0x00007f2091598000)
libflite_cmulex.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libflite_cmulex.so.1 (0x00007f2091501000)
libarchive.so.13 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libarchive.so.13 (0x00007f2091134000)
libcurl.so.4 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4 (0x00007f2091044000)
libleptonica.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libleptonica.so.6 (0x00007f2090a00000)
libgomp.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgomp.so.1 (0x00007f20914ac000)
libfribidi.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfribidi.so.0 (0x00007f209148d000)
libharfbuzz.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libharfbuzz.so.0 (0x00007f20908bf000)
libunibreak.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libunibreak.so.6 (0x00007f209146b000)
libexpat.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007f2090dd4000)
libpng16.so.16 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007f2090d9c000)
libbrotlidec.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbrotlidec.so.1 (0x00007f2091036000)
libmvec.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmvec.so.1 (0x00007f20907c6000)
libmpg123.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpg123.so.0 (0x00007f2090d3f000)
libvorbisfile.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbisfile.so.3 (0x00007f2092633000)
libudfread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudfread.so.0 (0x00007f209102b000)
libzstd.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f20906fc000)
libgnutls.so.30 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30 (0x00007f2090400000)
libhogweed.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhogweed.so.6 (0x00007f2090cf4000)
libnettle.so.8 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnettle.so.8 (0x00007f20906a6000)
libgmp.so.10 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10 (0x00007f2090376000)
libreplace-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libreplace-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f2093f66000)
libtevent.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtevent.so.0 (0x00007f2090cdc000)
libsamba-security-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-security-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f2090665000)
liblibcli-lsa3-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/liblibcli-lsa3-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f20937f9000)
libsmbconf.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0 (0x00007f20902e0000)
libndr.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libndr.so.6 (0x00007f2090647000)
libtalloc.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtalloc.so.2 (0x00007f209063a000)
libsamba-errors.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-errors.so.1 (0x00007f20901ad000)
libmsrpc3-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libmsrpc3-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f209017b000)
libsamba-hostconfig.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-hostconfig.so.0 (0x00007f2090147000)
libtevent-util.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtevent-util.so.0 (0x00007f2091d39000)
liblibsmb-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/liblibsmb-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f20900df000)
libsamba-util.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-util.so.0 (0x00007f209006a000)
libdcerpc-samba-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libdcerpc-samba-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208fea8000)
libsamba-debug-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-debug-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f2090cd0000)
libsamba3-util-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba3-util-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f209062e000)
libgenrand-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libgenrand-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f2090628000)
libsamba-credentials.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-credentials.so.1 (0x00007f208fe8d000)
libndr-standard.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libndr-standard.so.0 (0x00007f208fa00000)
libgse-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libgse-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208fe49000)
libdcerpc-binding.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdcerpc-binding.so.0 (0x00007f208fe22000)
libcli-smb-common-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libcli-smb-common-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208fddb000)
libsecrets3-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsecrets3-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208fdc7000)
libgio-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f208f808000)
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f208f7da000)
libcairo-gobject.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcairo-gobject.so.2 (0x00007f208fdbc000)
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0x00007f208f7c9000)
libpango-1.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x00007f208f758000)
libXrender.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1 (0x00007f208f74b000)
libxcb-render.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-render.so.0 (0x00007f208f73c000)
libpixman-1.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpixman-1.so.0 (0x00007f208f68f000)
libffi.so.8 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.8 (0x00007f208f682000)
libatomic.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatomic.so.1 (0x00007f208f678000)
libpcre2-8.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre2-8.so.0 (0x00007f208f5c9000)
libogg.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libogg.so.0 (0x00007f208f5bf000)
libsharpyuv.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsharpyuv.so.0 (0x00007f208f5b6000)
libnuma.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnuma.so.1 (0x00007f208f5a7000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f208fdb7000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f208f5a2000)
libX11-xcb.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11-xcb.so.1 (0x00007f208f59d000)
libxcb-dri3.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-dri3.so.0 (0x00007f208f596000)
libpulsecommon-17.0.so => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-17.0.so (0x00007f208f50e000)
libdbus-1.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3 (0x00007f208f4b7000)
libmd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmd.so.0 (0x00007f208f4a8000)
libjpeg.so.62 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.62 (0x00007f208f411000)
libopenblas.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenblas.so.0 (0x00007f208ce30000)
libgfortran.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgfortran.so.5 (0x00007f208ca00000)
libacl.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libacl.so.1 (0x00007f208ce25000)
liblz4.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f208cdfe000)
libnghttp3.so.9 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnghttp3.so.9 (0x00007f208cdd4000)
libnghttp2.so.14 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnghttp2.so.14 (0x00007f208cda2000)
libidn2.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libidn2.so.0 (0x00007f208cd6f000)
libssh2.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssh2.so.1 (0x00007f208cd27000)
libpsl.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpsl.so.5 (0x00007f208cd13000)
libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00007f208c9aa000)
libldap.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libldap.so.2 (0x00007f208c946000)
liblber.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblber.so.2 (0x00007f208c935000)
libgif.so.7 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgif.so.7 (0x00007f208cd07000)
libtiff.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.6 (0x00007f208c8a1000)
libgraphite2.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgraphite2.so.3 (0x00007f208c877000)
libbrotlicommon.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbrotlicommon.so.1 (0x00007f208c854000)
libp11-kit.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libp11-kit.so.0 (0x00007f208c6b3000)
libunistring.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libunistring.so.5 (0x00007f208c4cb000)
libtasn1.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtasn1.so.6 (0x00007f208c4b5000)
libstable-sort-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libstable-sort-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208f40a000)
libndr-samba-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libndr-samba-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c310000)
libsamba-cluster-support-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-cluster-support-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c2f9000)
libserver-id-db-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libserver-id-db-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c2f4000)
libtalloc-report-printf-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libtalloc-report-printf-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c2ef000)
libutil-reg-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libutil-reg-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c2ea000)
libinterfaces-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libinterfaces-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c2e5000)
libutil-tdb-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libutil-tdb-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c2e0000)
libsamba-sockets-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-sockets-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c2c4000)
libCHARSET3-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libCHARSET3-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c2bf000)
libsocket-blocking-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsocket-blocking-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c2ba000)
libdbwrap-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libdbwrap-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c2ad000)
libsys-rw-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsys-rw-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c2a8000)
libmessages-dgm-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libmessages-dgm-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c298000)
libmessages-util-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libmessages-util-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c293000)
libsmbd-shim-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsmbd-shim-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c28e000)
libtdb.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtdb.so.1 (0x00007f208c275000)
libtdb-wrap-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libtdb-wrap-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c270000)
libserver-role-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libserver-role-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c269000)
libtime-basic-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libtime-basic-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c264000)
libutil-setid-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libutil-setid-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c25f000)
libcap.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2 (0x00007f208c253000)
libndr-samba4-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libndr-samba4-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c000000)
libnpa-tstream-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libnpa-tstream-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c246000)
libcliauth-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libcliauth-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c22e000)
libgensec-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libgensec-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208bfce000)
libcommon-auth-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libcommon-auth-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c21d000)
libsmb-transport-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsmb-transport-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208c215000)
libsystemd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007f208beb9000)
libicui18n.so.76 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicui18n.so.76 (0x00007f208ba00000)
libicuuc.so.76 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuuc.so.76 (0x00007f208b600000)
libauthkrb5-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libauthkrb5-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208be9c000)
libgssapi-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libgssapi-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208be4e000)
libldbsamba-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libldbsamba-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208be1e000)
libldb.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libldb.so.2 (0x00007f208bde8000)
libkrb5samba-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libkrb5samba-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208bdd9000)
libcom-err-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libcom-err-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208bdd4000)
libsamdb-common-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamdb-common-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208b9c2000)
libkrb5-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libkrb5-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208b927000)
libndr-nbt.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libndr-nbt.so.0 (0x00007f208bda5000)
libcli-cldap-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libcli-cldap-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208b91d000)
libaddns-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libaddns-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208b90d000)
libcli-ldap-common-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libcli-ldap-common-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208bd9c000)
libasn1util-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libasn1util-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208b903000)
libcli-ldap-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libcli-ldap-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208b8ee000)
libcli-nbt-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libcli-nbt-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208b8e1000)
libiov-buf-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libiov-buf-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208b8dc000)
libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f208b8d3000)
libmount.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmount.so.1 (0x00007f208b857000)
libselinux.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1 (0x00007f208b823000)
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x00007f208b5e3000)
libthai.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthai.so.0 (0x00007f208b5d8000)
libsndfile.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsndfile.so.1 (0x00007f208b547000)
libasyncns.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasyncns.so.0 (0x00007f208b540000)
libxxhash.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxxhash.so.0 (0x00007f208b52d000)
libkrb5.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkrb5.so.3 (0x00007f208b455000)
libk5crypto.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x00007f208b427000)
libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcom_err.so.2 (0x00007f208b41f000)
libkrb5support.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x00007f208b411000)
libsasl2.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsasl2.so.2 (0x00007f208b3f5000)
libLerc.so.4 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLerc.so.4 (0x00007f208b367000)
libjbig.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjbig.so.0 (0x00007f208b356000)
libdeflate.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdeflate.so.0 (0x00007f208b33d000)
libndr-krb5pac.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libndr-krb5pac.so.0 (0x00007f208b31b000)
libmsghdr-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libmsghdr-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208b316000)
libsamba-modules-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-modules-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208b30f000)
libwbclient.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwbclient.so.0 (0x00007f208b2fa000)
libsamdb.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamdb.so.0 (0x00007f208b2dc000)
libMESSAGING-SEND-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libMESSAGING-SEND-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208b2d7000)
libjansson.so.4 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjansson.so.4 (0x00007f208b2c7000)
libicudata.so.76 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicudata.so.76 (0x00007f2089400000)
libroken-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libroken-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208b2b2000)
libhcrypto-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libhcrypto-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208b277000)
libasn1-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libasn1-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208935f000)
libheimbase-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libheimbase-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208933e000)
libflag-mapping-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libflag-mapping-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f208b270000)
libwind-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libwind-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f2089314000)
libhx509-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libhx509-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f20892cc000)
libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkeyutils.so.1 (0x00007f208b269000)
libclidns-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libclidns-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f20892c5000)
libnetif-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libnetif-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f20892bf000)
libblkid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libblkid.so.1 (0x00007f208925f000)
libdatrie.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdatrie.so.1 (0x00007f2089255000)
libFLAC.so.14 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libFLAC.so.14 (0x00007f20891eb000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f20891d9000)
libcluster-private-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libcluster-private-samba.so.0 (0x00007f20891d4000)

has a lot library dependencies, to implement its plethora of handlers
for formats, codecs, filters etc.

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On 16.07.2025 10:37, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:13:32 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:

I suppose, most people already have ffmpeg installed (it is a
command line tool, so it doesn't need to be "installed", but just
copied to your disk) ...

ldo@theon:~> ls -l /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 361952 Dec 15 2024 /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

Not large, but

ldo@theon:~> ldd /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

[ huge list of about 300 libraries snipped ]

has a lot library dependencies, to implement its plethora of handlers
for formats, codecs, filters etc.

I would expect for a movie processing program to need many libraries,
as you say, for codecs, etc.

But the list you got is absurd; it contains things like samba, ldap,
and whatnot. (I wonder what platform you're using, and how the tool
had been built, given that it's in /usr/local.)

Here's the number of libraries on my Linux system

$ ldd /usr/bin/ffmpeg | wc -l
39

which (in detail) all look like a quite sensible choice of libraries.

Janis


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In article <1057qf9$lfs0$1@dont-email.me>,
Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
....

Here's the number of libraries on my Linux system

$ ldd /usr/bin/ffmpeg | wc -l
39

which (in detail) all look like a quite sensible choice of libraries.

Keep in mind that most of the idiots who post about various random stuff in this "editors" newsgroup (as if everything in the world was an "editor")
are Windows (*) dorks. And Windows makes everything far more complicated than that which simple folk like you and me are used to.

So, you can keep your Linux comments to yourself, thankyouverymuch.

(*) And/or Android dorks.

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This is the GOP's problem. When you're at the beginning of the year
and you've got nine Democrats running for the nomination, maybe one or
two of them are Dennis Kucinich. When you have nine Republicans, seven
or eight of them are Michelle Bachmann.

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On 16.07.2025 10:37, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:13:32 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:

I suppose, most people already have ffmpeg installed (it is a
command line tool, so it doesn't need to be "installed", but just
copied to your disk) ...

ldo@theon:~> ls -l /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 361952 Dec 15 2024 /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

Not large, but

28.07.2020 21:51 66.956.800 ffmpeg.exe

Large, but no external libraries necessary, anything is static linked.

I don't care about 67 MByte disk space as long as I can copy the program
to an other PC (or start it from an USB drive) and can be sure it works.









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On Wed, 7/16/2025 4:37 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:13:32 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:

I suppose, most people already have ffmpeg installed (it is a
command line tool, so it doesn't need to be "installed", but just
copied to your disk) ...

ldo@theon:~> ls -l /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 361952 Dec 15 2024 /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

Not large, but

has a lot library dependencies, to implement its plethora of handlers
for formats, codecs, filters etc.

Windows has a statically compiled FFMPEG.exe available from Gyan,
which does the job and can be dragged and dropped into your work folder.
WinXP needs an older version of FFMPEG, compared to what is distributed today.

And I hope all these commands people are using, you've actually
tested them and verified an animated GIF is the output. My experience
is, there are lots of failures to behold, before you develop a
recipe that produces an actual/live/functional animated GIF.
An animated GIF has a timing parameter for playback, yielding
either a slide show, or, a video-like effect.

If you ask for GIF output, you could end up with a folder-of-frames
with one GIF per frame offered. If the "movie" had a thousand
frames, there could be a thousand GIFs, each with a different
color table.

That's why I'm not going to be shooting from the hip, without
verifying the result is fit for purpose. Too much can go wrong
along the way, and it'll take all morning to make a good tool flow.
I've been to this rodeo before, I have "fail-experience" :-)

Paul


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On 2025-07-16 11:13, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

On 16.07.2025 10:37, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:13:32 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:

I suppose, most people already have ffmpeg installed (it is a
command line tool, so it doesn't need to be "installed", but just
copied to your disk) ...

ldo@theon:~> ls -l /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 361952 Dec 15 2024 /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

Not large, but

ldo@theon:~> ldd /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

[ huge list of about 300 libraries snipped ]

has a lot library dependencies, to implement its plethora of handlers
for formats, codecs, filters etc.

I would expect for a movie processing program to need many libraries,
as you say, for codecs, etc.

But the list you got is absurd; it contains things like samba, ldap,
and whatnot. (I wonder what platform you're using, and how the tool
had been built, given that it's in /usr/local.)

Here's the number of libraries on my Linux system

$ ldd /usr/bin/ffmpeg | wc -l
39

which (in detail) all look like a quite sensible choice of libraries.

Telcontar:~ # ldd /usr/bin/ffmpeg | wc -l
109
Telcontar:~ #

openSUSE Leap 15.6

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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote at 08:13 this Wednesday (GMT):

On 16.07.2025 09:40, JJ wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:13:32 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:

On 16.07.2025 01:45, Marion wrote:

have an animated GIF. So I searched for the best way to take screenrecs, >>>> but too many programs showed up as potential Windows screen recorders.

But I'm curious, what do you use to record the screen to animated GIF?

Why not use the Windows Snipping Tool (<WIN>-<SHIFT>-S)? And I don't
see any advantage in converting the mp4 to animated gif format. But
if you really want:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.gif

I suppose, most people already have ffmpeg installed (it is a
command line tool, so it doesn't need to be "installed", but just
copied to your disk), because it is THE all-purpose video tool.

Or just use the screen for the media source. ffmpeg can do a screen
recording. e.g.

ffmpeg -f gdigrab -framerate 20 -i desktop "e:\screen caps\output.gif"

May want to experiment with the screen capturing method via the -f switch to >> see which one works best for your system and output image format.

To OP: be aware that, GIF can only support up to 256 colors (not 16M).

I've used in the past from command line either 'ffmpeg' or 'convert';
the latter to combine plain images; it's from the ImageMagick package.

Janis

The "convert" command is considered outdated as of ImageMagick 7, it's
now the "magick" command. Unfortunately, Debian still ships 6.9.11-60.
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:13:32 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote :

have an animated GIF. So I searched for the best way to take screenrecs,
but too many programs showed up as potential Windows screen recorders.

But I'm curious, what do you use to record the screen to animated GIF?

Why not use the Windows Snipping Tool (<WIN>-<SHIFT>-S)? And I don't
see any advantage in converting the mp4 to animated gif format. But
if you really want:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.gif

I suppose, most people already have ffmpeg installed (it is a
command line tool, so it doesn't need to be "installed", but just
copied to your disk), because it is THE all-purpose video tool.

Good question. I don't have a good initial answer for your question.

The answer I will give you, at least for up until you asked the question,
is that I tried "Win+R > snippingtool" years & years ago (when it first
came out) and I didn't think it did anything that Irfanview didn't do - so
- I forgot all about it - until you asked that question of me just now.

Perhaps a secondary answer is that I wasn't aware "Win+R > snippingtool"
could save the screen-recorded "video" to animated GIFs.

Looking that up, I belatedly understood why you brought up the topic of an
MP4 file, where I'm well familiar with ffmpeg so I understand your point.

Digging deeper though, I found out that apparently the screen recording
feature inside Snipping Tool is exclusive to Windows 11; not Windows 10.

The video recording to MP4 feature apparently doesn't work on Windows 10.
But it's good for Windows 11 users since it's native so it's already there.

As for ffmpeg, I use it to clean up my video that I post to Amazon Vine.
<https://amazon.com/vine/about>

These are my favorite commands given I only need to do simple editing.

Remove metadata
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -map 0 -map_metadata -1 -c copy output.mp4

Probe metadata
ffprobe -i input.mp4

Deshake:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf deshake output_deshake.mp4

Remove the first two seconds of the video:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 2 -c copy output.mp4

Chop the video keeping the first 30 seconds only:
ffmpeg -ss 00:00:00 -i input.mp4 -to 00:00:30 output_chop.mp4

Slow a video by 2.5 and remove the audio (because it will be distorted)
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -filter:v "setpts=PTS*2.5" -an output.mp4

Add an audio track which is longer than the video:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i audio.m4a -map 0:v -map 1:a -c:v copy -c:a aac -shortest output.mp4

This adds the longer audio track and fades out two seconds before the end
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i audio.m4a -map 0:v -map 1:a -c:v copy -c:a aac -af afade=t=out:st=83.5:d=2 -shortest output.mp4

Get the accurate length, e.g., 19.02000 (for a 19-second video):
ffprobe -i input.mp4 -show_entries format=duration -v quiet -print_format default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1

Burn subtitles
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "subtitles=input.srt:force_style='FontSize=36,PrimaryColour=&H00FFFF'" output.mp4

Rotate (flip) 180 degrees clockwise:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "transpose=1,transpose=1" output.mp4

Rotate (flip) 90 degrees clockwise:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "transpose=1" output.mp4

Create the thumbnail (let's say a frame at 10 seconds)
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 00:00:10 -frames:v 1 thumbnail.jpg

Embed the chosen thumbnail
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i thumbnail.jpg -map 0 -map 1 -c copy -disposition:v:1 attached_pic output.mp4

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On 16.07.2025 21:38, Marion wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:13:32 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote :

Why not use the Windows Snipping Tool (<WIN>-<SHIFT>-S)?

The video recording to MP4 feature apparently doesn't work on Windows 10.
But it's good for Windows 11 users since it's native so it's already there.

The Game Bar should be available also in Win10. Just press
<WIN>-G and start the video recording.






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On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:16:40 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote :

Why not use the Windows Snipping Tool (<WIN>-<SHIFT>-S)?

The video recording to MP4 feature apparently doesn't work on Windows 10.
But it's good for Windows 11 users since it's native so it's already there.

The Game Bar should be available also in Win10. Just press
<WIN>-G and start the video recording.

Yes. I'm aware of that. Powerpoint has it too. But I run a clean machine.
I deleted all the Microsoft-added bloatware on Windows the day I got it.

So when I type "Win+G", up pops a nondescript black & white error:
"You'll need a new app to open this ms-gamingoverlay link. OK"

Still, it's a good idea for others who are on Windows 10 who wish to create
an animated GIF of a web session to provide to support folks to fix issues.

Here are all the screen recorders I've tried so far in my Windows tests:

dir /b editors\screenrec\*

apowerrec
aviscreenclassic
bsr
camstudio
captura
chrispc
cutescreenrec
debut
dvdvideosoft
em
ezvid
fdr
flashback
freecam
gamedvr
gilisoft
goplay
hypercam
icecream
ispring
jing
licecap
obsstudio
screencastomatic
screentogif
sharex
streamobs
tinytake
uscreencapture
vclip
wink
wisdom

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On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:35:45 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:

28.07.2020 21:51 66.956.800 ffmpeg.exe

Large, but no external libraries necessary, anything is static linked.

As you may have noticed, I do my own builds. This allows me to use combinations of build options that cannot (legally) be redistributed as prebuild packages.

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On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:45:33 -0400, Paul wrote:

Windows has a statically compiled FFMPEG.exe available from Gyan,
which does the job and can be dragged and dropped into your work folder.

If it’s a redistributable prebuilt package, then there are build options
it won’t be able to use.

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On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:44:22 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:

Telcontar:~ # ldd /usr/bin/ffmpeg | wc -l
109

Mine is about 3 times that.

openSUSE Leap 15.6

Prebuilt FFmpeg packages cannot include the full range of build options available if you build it yourself from source.

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On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:20:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

The "convert" command is considered outdated as of ImageMagick 7, it's
now the "magick" command. Unfortunately, Debian still ships 6.9.11-60.

I tried “magick convert” on my Debian Unstable, and that seems to work. So the unprefixed commands remain available for backward compatibility.

It says the version of ImageMagick I have installed is 7.something.

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 02:01 this Thursday (GMT):

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:20:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

The "convert" command is considered outdated as of ImageMagick 7, it's
now the "magick" command. Unfortunately, Debian still ships 6.9.11-60.

I tried “magick convert” on my Debian Unstable, and that seems to work. So
the unprefixed commands remain available for backward compatibility.

It says the version of ImageMagick I have installed is 7.something.

Well, yeah. Unstable has newer packages than Stable?
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On Wed, 7/16/2025 9:55 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:35:45 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:

28.07.2020 21:51 66.956.800 ffmpeg.exe

Large, but no external libraries necessary, anything is static linked.

As you may have noticed, I do my own builds. This allows me to use combinations of build options that cannot (legally) be redistributed as prebuild packages.

Gyan builds them, and there are no pretenses about the religion of
the linked DLLs (statically linked).

I suppose we need to have a Betty Crocker display of the config
line from your tool, versus a Gyan build.

*******

latest release version: 7.1.1 2025-03-03 the latest release build (that is not a Nightly)

ffmpeg-release-full.7z .ver .sha256 = e5bbf665b9a43219d97a15c2dd2cdeb9b11bcb689d88a2177c4f754b4e20f793

Name: ffmpeg-7.1.1-full_build.7z
Size: 54252413 bytes (51 MiB)
SHA256: E5BBF665B9A43219D97A15C2DD2CDEB9B11BCB689D88A2177C4F754B4E20F793

Extracted

Name: ffmpeg.exe
Size: 148,234,240 bytes (141 MiB)
SHA256: B1383F5D07470D503EDECDAEE4BDDC5891E986E916A698299B357F79CFE445FD

*******

Run it.

PS D:\> .\ffmpeg.exe
ffmpeg version 7.1.1-full_build-www.gyan.dev Copyright (c) 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 14.2.0 (Rev1, Built by MSYS2 project)
configuration: --enable-gpl
--enable-version3
--enable-static
--disable-w32threads
--disable-autodetect
--enable-fontconfig
--enable-iconv
--enable-gnutls
--enable-lcms2
--enable-libxml2
--enable-gmp
--enable-bzlib
--enable-lzma
--enable-libsnappy
--enable-zlib
--enable-librist
--enable-libsrt
--enable-libssh
--enable-libzmq
--enable-avisynth
--enable-libbluray
--enable-libcaca
--enable-libdvdnav
--enable-libdvdread
--enable-sdl2
--enable-libaribb24
--enable-libaribcaption
--enable-libdav1d
--enable-libdavs2
--enable-libopenjpeg
--enable-libquirc
--enable-libuavs3d
--enable-libxevd
--enable-libzvbi
--enable-libqrencode
--enable-librav1e
--enable-libsvtav1
--enable-libvvenc
--enable-libwebp
--enable-libx264
--enable-libx265
--enable-libxavs2
--enable-libxeve
--enable-libxvid
--enable-libaom
--enable-libjxl
--enable-libvpx
--enable-mediafoundation
--enable-libass
--enable-frei0r
--enable-libfreetype
--enable-libfribidi
--enable-libharfbuzz
--enable-liblensfun
--enable-libvidstab
--enable-libvmaf
--enable-libzimg
--enable-amf
--enable-cuda-llvm
--enable-cuvid
--enable-dxva2
--enable-d3d11va
--enable-d3d12va
--enable-ffnvcodec
--enable-libvpl
--enable-nvdec \___ The Linux release doesn't have these, but you can easily
--enable-nvenc / build from source on Ubuntu, the tree is nicely aligned, and the dev- packages are there for it
--enable-vaapi
--enable-libshaderc
--enable-vulkan
--enable-libplacebo
--enable-opencl
--enable-libcdio
--enable-libgme
--enable-libmodplug
--enable-libopenmpt
--enable-libopencore-amrwb
--enable-libmp3lame
--enable-libshine
--enable-libtheora
--enable-libtwolame
--enable-libvo-amrwbenc
--enable-libcodec2
--enable-libilbc
--enable-libgsm
--enable-liblc3
--enable-libopencore-amrnb
--enable-libopus
--enable-libspeex
--enable-libvorbis
--enable-ladspa
--enable-libbs2b
--enable-libflite
--enable-libmysofa
--enable-librubberband
--enable-libsoxr
--enable-chromaprint
libavutil 59. 39.100 / 59. 39.100
libavcodec 61. 19.101 / 61. 19.101
libavformat 61. 7.100 / 61. 7.100
libavdevice 61. 3.100 / 61. 3.100
libavfilter 10. 4.100 / 10. 4.100
libswscale 8. 3.100 / 8. 3.100
libswresample 5. 3.100 / 5. 3.100
libpostproc 58. 3.100 / 58. 3.100
Universal media converter
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'
PS D:\>

I think there is something missing from there, but it's likely not a build priority in either ecosystem.

Paul

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