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		stevoo on Aug 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and... Well you are posting at an extremely tech oriented group. I believe i speak for like 90% here that we all want to hear about the tech* wooops. Shed some light in how you made everything. This is what interests us mostly.

superasn on Aug 18, 2014 | [–]

This may not be 100% accurate, but this is one way of doing it:

1) youtube-dl ${video-id} video.avi #download youtube to avi

2) ffmpeg -i video.avi -t 10 out%02d.gif #export avi file to gif frames

3) gifsicle --delay=10 --loop *.gif > anim.gif #makes animated looping gif

plaguuuuuu on Aug 18, 2014 | [–]

OP will surely deliver

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