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Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF?

From "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.freeware, comp.editors
Subject Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF?
Date 2025-07-16 19:44 +0200
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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:~ #

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-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-07-15 23:45 +0000
  Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-16 05:49 +0000
  Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-07-16 08:13 +0200
    Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? JJ <jj4public@outlook.com> - 2025-07-16 14:40 +0700
      Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-07-16 10:13 +0200
        Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-07-16 19:20 +0000
          Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-17 02:01 +0000
            Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-07-17 07:00 +0000
    Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-16 08:37 +0000
      Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-07-16 11:13 +0200
        Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2025-07-16 09:42 +0000
        Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-07-16 19:44 +0200
          Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-17 01:57 +0000
      Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-07-16 12:35 +0200
        Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-17 01:55 +0000
          Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-17 09:39 -0400
            Re: What free software do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-18 05:40 +0000
      Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-16 10:45 -0400
        Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-17 01:56 +0000
    Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-07-16 19:38 +0000
      Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-07-16 22:16 +0200
        Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-07-16 20:26 +0000

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