gifr - gif recorder

Streaming video player. It can play any local video file in web browser (and record gifs from it).

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Features:

• Play local video files with many formats supported, if ffmpeg can transcode it - you can play it (mkv, mp4, avi, mov, wmv, webm, ...)
• Preliminary transcoding of whole file not required - it will only transcode parts when it's necessary
• Adaptive video bitrate
• Switch between multiple audio tracks (when part of video container)
• Enable subtitles (when part of video container)
• Save a fragment of video as gif (as project name suggests)

Limitations:

• For local use only (no security implemented)
• Transcoding depends on performance of the machine (some formats work better, some not)

Building

JDK 11, nodejs 15, npm 7 required.

npm install
npm run build
./mvnw clean package

Everything will be built in one target/gifr.jar file.

Running

ffmpeg and ffprobe are required in PATH (included in release builds).

Run with java:

java -jar gifr.jar

Or just (since it is an executable jar):

./gifr.jar

Go to http://localhost:5000

Configuration

Default configuration is in src/resources/application.yml.

License

BSD-3-Clause