We have a new guide available today for our AfterDawn users, on how to use the new program DoubleTwist to share, sync, convert or import video, music or picture files.
You can use, DoubleTwist (the brainchild of DVD Jon) to sync your media devices as well as share your media with friends and sites such as Flickr and YouTube. DT can also convert videos to formats needed by certain devices, on the fly. DoubleTwist currently has support for iPhone, Blackberry, iPod/Touch, PSP, Android G1 and Magic, most camcorders and digital cameras, and a lot more media devices, which are listed in the guide.
Please check out the guide available here: Using DoubleTwist to share and sync your media
Result for: convert video
It is very easy to convert a YouTube video to an animated GIF in a nearly automated way. This tutorial should work roughly the same way on any operating system as long as you have the required tools:
1. Make sure you have access to all the required tools. As far as command line tools go, you will need wget, grep, sed, and xargs. These come with almost all Linux installations, or on Windows, you can use Cygwin. In addition, you need to have MPlayer installed.
2.Find the YouTube video you would like to convert. Make sure it is short, as a 5 minute video will become an animated GIF that is about 36 MB. The URL for the video should look like the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Sb0hGUNIQ
Note the part after the ?v=, e.g. 34Sb0hGUNIQ. Copy this code to your clipboard or write it down.
3. Do the conversion by typing:
./mplayer -vo gif89a ducktales.flv
It takes about as long as the video normally runs in order to finish converting. When it is done, there will be a new file in the same directory called output.gif. Try dragging it into a browser to see it run.
You have just successfully convert YouTube video to an animated GIF! Click here to see the final output. Note that if it seems slow, it is most likely because the video (7.5 MB) is still loading.
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Step 1. Download Free YouTube to iPod Video Converter
This is the clearly free program. There are no spyware or adware. It’s absolutely safe to install and to run!
Step 2. Launch Free YouTube to iPod Converter
