You run it and then pick a place and then it makes a gif! Easy!

Linux only for now. You'll also need ffmpeg with libx264 support. This is an alpha, so stuff is a bit wonky, but it does the absolute minimum necessary to make gifs. If you run into problems, open an issue on this repo.

• *nix box
• ffmpeg with libx264 support (try ffmpeg -h 2>&1 | grep libx264 and see if --enable-libx264 shows up there)
• libx11 headers (in Ubuntu 16.10, this is found in libx11-dev)

Clone this repo, then make install. That will compile the application and copy it to usr/local/bin/gidoo (this may need sudo?). Optionally you can just run make and launch the binary from this project's build directory.

# create mygif.gif in the current directory
gidoo mygif.gif

# wait 3s then begin recording a gif
gidoo -d 3 mygif.gif

# record a gif at half resolution
gidoo -s 0.5 mygif.gif

# help!
gidoo --help

• "select window" mode
• confirm/clear selections before beginning
• clean up messages
  • show final gif details (size, location, dimensions)
  • add progress spinner
• visual indication of delay countdown
• interactive mode with a bunch of options after the video has been recorded
  • outfile location
  • slice beginning, slice end
• config file, presets, last options
• screenshot send to clipboard