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[ryanpamplin]

Hello! I'd really like to use VLC to capture my screen on OS X, and output it as a streamable GIF. I've already got it doing this via MJPEG using this command:

/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC -vvv --no-audio screen:// --screen-fps 10 --sout "#transcode{vcodec=MJPG,vb=8000}:standard{access=http,mux=mpjpeg,dst=:18223/}" --sout-http-mime="multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=--7b3cc56e5f51db803f790dad720ed50a

Can you provide some guidance on how to install this into VLC on OS X, or if not, Ubuntu?

Thanks so much!

[azrdev]

first off: This project is more a proof of concept than anything else.

To build, you need the vlc headers (try something like apt-get build-dep vlc).
make should compile a libanigif_plugin.so file in the source directory. Copy that to /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/codec/ as described in the README.md.

About OS X I've no idea, but if I can help you figuring things out, I'd be glad to do so.