gifserver

gifserver is a service written in PHP that transcodes videos to GIFs on the fly. The gif animation will have 9 frames in a loop to represent the complete video

1. Add your video url http://gifserver.levy.se/?video=http://levy.se/test.mp4

2. Add &format=json like http://gifserver.levy.se/?video=http://levy.se/test.mp4&format=json

• Webserver with php
• The service is a wrapper around ffmpeg $brew install ffmpeg if you have Homebrew installed
• ImageMagic installed with php module $brew reinstall php55-imagick where php55 is your PHP version
• Apace/webserver? Make sure it can run cmd

I spent hours googling for a service that creates an animated gif from a video, that represents the complete video. I only found solutions that animated the first 10 frames, the first 30 seconds etc. So i decided to create gifserverthat will represent the complete video with 9 looping frames,no matter how long the original file is.