# jamb

**Repository Path**: mirrors_Knetic/jamb

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: jamb
- **Description**: Convert videos to gifs
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-09
- **Last Updated**: 2026-10-21

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

jamb
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Convenience script to convert a video into a gif. Primarily useful for taking the output of a screen recorder to make gifs out of.

![example](repo_images/example.gif)

Do you really need a full-on repo for this script?
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Yes. Having a proper readme, makefile, license, packaging, and testing doesn't take very long. I prefer doing this over creating longwinded shell aliases that are unmaintable and unshareable. This way, I can point someone to a repo, and they can contribute fixes or additions back, if they so choose.

Or at the very least, when I swap between systems I can just install a package from a repo, instead of re-googling everything, or saying "gee i wish i had my dotfiles with me, which had that one specific alias that i need right now, which i guess isn't standard everywhere".

What does this require?
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If `ffmpeg` is not installed on the system, this will automatically add the McMahon PPA (which is the non-libav version of ffmpeg) and install ffmpeg, before converting the video.

What does 'jamb' mean?
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It's the word for those wooden slats in the middle of windows.