Gimp error while ising gap, cannot view video files

[jreidsma]

Hi everyone

(I am mainly using my Ubuntu linux chromebook c7 or my windows 7 desktop)

I am trying to make some animated gif's from video files. I made a few but now everytime I try making them I get a "Execution error for procedure 'gimp-file-load': Unknown file type" error window. It does this on every type of movie file I have tried.

It does this on my windows seven computer, and my linux computers.

I was just converting the videos online on gifninja but the quality is pretty bad.

I am recording the videos on my windows computer with camstudio so the default is wmv. But on my Ubuntu linux chromebook I have Arista to convert the videos. I have tried mkv, m4v, avi, mp4, webm, mpg, flv, wmv
Any ideas?

[Miven]

This command converts any file readable by mplayer to individual jpegs:

mplayer -quiet -osdlevel 0 -vo jpeg:progressive,quality=100 -noframedrop -frames 99999 -ao null -vf scale  "${INFILE}"

Then you could load them in gimp, layer, and make a gif, I believe. Haven't tried making a gif in years, but it should work.

[jreidsma]

This command converts any file readable by mplayer to individual jpegs:

mplayer -quiet -osdlevel 0 -vo jpeg:progressive,quality=100 -noframedrop -frames 99999 -ao null -vf scale  "${INFILE}"

Then you could load them in gimp, layer, and make a gif, I believe. Haven't tried making a gif in years, but it should work.

When I run that command in the terminal it gives me this:

jreidsma@ChrUbuntu:~$ mplayer -quiet -osdlevel 0 -vo jpeg:progressive,quality=100 -noframedrop -frames 99999 -ao null -vf scale  "${INFILE}"
MPlayer svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing .
File not found: ''
Failed to open .


Exiting... (End of file)
jreidsma@ChrUbuntu:~$