How do you capture gif?

[halcarleton]

On windows capturing gif is pretty straight forward, you just right-click gyazo in the tray and choose "Capture Gif" or use ctrl+shift+g. But I cannot figure out how to do the same on linux. When I right-click gyazo in the launcher the only option I get is "Gyazo", which is the same as just clicking the icon.

Could someone help me out? Also are there any docs for this?

Ubuntu 14.04

[uiur]

We're sorry that gif feature is not supported on Linux for now.

[guilhermesgb]

This software seems to be amazing. I just wish that you'd disclose that gif capturing doesn't work on Linux on your home page so we don't waste time trying until (if) we find out about it here.

I did ran into Gyazo after a Google search for "linux screen capture into gif" after all...

[uiur]

Thanks @Alkaris. byzanz looks good. Does it work well for you?

[uiur]

Unfortunately, linux support is not our priority. Let us know if there's a good alternative. We would be happy to add a link.

[guilhermesgb]

Oh, nice to know about other options! I ended up finding out about a command line tool (ffcast) which also does the job pretty well so maybe you could point to that link too? (Or even better, maybe integrate it into Gyazo!)

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/113695/gif-screencasting-the-unix-way

Cheers.

[uiur]

sounds good.

[thomas15v]

It looks fairly simple to add gif support tho.

All you need is a mp4 recorder (Byzanz for example) for linux. And post the mp4 video to ´gif.gyazo.com´ with the following form information:

• id: possibly your userid
• width
• height
• scale: (seems to be 1 every time)
• metadata: {'title': 'test', 'app': 'chrome'}
• data: your file Blank line followed with the the mp4 files content.

[thomas15v]

@Alkaris the fun part is that Gyazo makes the gif itself. All we need is a command that can do the following:

1. Spawn in a selection window to select the area you wanna record
2. Has a pause/stop button during the recording
3. Creates a mp4 file

Than we only have to expand the ruby file with a "gif-command" section. And bam we have Gayzo gifs for linux 😄.

[pciavald]

any news on this ? just discovered this tool and I would love to be able to make gifs with it

[mpsijm]

I've written a script that allows the user to select a rectangle, then uses Byzanz to record a GIF, and uploads it to Gyazo. Dropping it here if anyone wants to use it :slightly_smiling_face:

https://github.com/mpsijm/gyazo-gif-for-linux