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  • What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF?

    From Marion@marion@facts.com to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware,comp.editors on Tue Jul 15 23:45:26 2025
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    I complained to Amazon Vine about a product that couldn't be ordered, and
    their robots told me to send a screenshot to humans at a support address.
    <https://amazon.com/vine/about> (click on the support links)

    The robot only wanted a "screenshot" but to see the problem, it's better to have an animated GIF. So I searched for the best way to take screenrecs,
    but too many programs showed up as potential Windows screen recorders.
    cutescreenrec
    obsstudio
    screentogif
    licecap
    sharex
    apowerrec
    camstudio
    debut
    dvdvideosoft
    ezvid
    flashback
    gamedvr
    gilisoft
    goplay
    icecream
    ispring
    screencastomatic
    tinytake
    wisdom
    aviscreenclassic
    bsr
    captura
    chrispc
    em
    fdr
    freecam
    hypercam
    wink
    vclip
    uscreencapture
    jing
    streamobs
    etc.

    I ended up first trying "LICEcap" simply because it was the smallest
    download, where it worked simply by starting the executable, pressing
    record, and then choosing a location, where oddly, it started recording.

    <https://www.cockos.com/licecap/>
    <https://www.cockos.com/licecap/licecap132-install.exe>
    Name: licecap132-install.exe
    Size: 256960 bytes (250 KiB)
    SHA256: B1E7EAF6B275BFB820BFFA790082B36DD4EAB1C06A54B3D508C7BAD304B1D518

    Personally, I think it should be the other way around instead...
    a. First select a location
    b. Then press record

    That's how the second program I tried worked, which was ScreenToGif,
    which brought up a GUI afterward which allowed saving options.
    <https://www.screentogif.com/>
    <https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif/releases/download/2.41.3/ScreenToGif.2.41.3.Setup.x64.msi>
    Name: ScreenToGif.2.41.3.Setup.x64.msi
    Size: 74326016 bytes (70 MiB)
    SHA256: 846189DB3400C824C21F4C226A86B5DFFEB0500A1043BFD0D33471C704F995E5
    C:\app\editor\screenrec\screentogif

    Notice both did almost exactly the same thing but one is huge compared to
    the other (even though they seemed to be very similar in use model).

    But anyway, it worked for the purpose that I needed it to.
    But I'm curious, what do you use to record the screen to animated GIF?
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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware,comp.editors on Wed Jul 16 05:49:30 2025
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    I am not fond of freeware <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware>, I
    prefer Free software <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software>.
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  • From Herbert Kleebauer@klee@unibwm.de to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware,comp.editors on Wed Jul 16 08:13:32 2025
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    On 16.07.2025 01:45, Marion wrote:

    have an animated GIF. So I searched for the best way to take screenrecs,
    but too many programs showed up as potential Windows screen recorders.

    But I'm curious, what do you use to record the screen to animated GIF?

    Why not use the Windows Snipping Tool (<WIN>-<SHIFT>-S)? And I don't
    see any advantage in converting the mp4 to animated gif format. But
    if you really want:

    ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.gif

    I suppose, most people already have ffmpeg installed (it is a
    command line tool, so it doesn't need to be "installed", but just
    copied to your disk), because it is THE all-purpose video tool.


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