Nope, been down that road. Convert won't do it.
There is a windows util (snagit) that will allow you to capture what is on screen
to AVI. I thought maybe there would be a comparable thing for Linux/UNIX. Doesn't
look good.
Thanks
Tom Gilbert wrote:
> * Robert Haehnel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > No, I don't want to watch TV. I have several animated Gifs that I have
> > created. I would like to convert them to .avi for my windoze colleagues (you
> > can't put .gifs in Powerpoint). I have not found a way to convert from .gif
> > to .avi, but If I could run the .gif on screen, and capture it to a .avi
> > file, that would work (I hope).
>
> I think you should look at convert. Part of the ImageMagick package,
> I think it will happily convert gifs directly to avis. If you have it
> installed, man convert will tell you more.
>
> Running a gif on screen, then trying to capture the image on screen as
> an avi would be an absolute nightmare ;) AFAIK it would not be
> possible this way.
>
> Tom.
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