Converting creates gigantic tmp files about gifify

[nloveladyallen]

I had a 350K .mov file, the script made a 65M temp file. 4.8M is excusable, but 65M is not.

[jclem]

It's true, it's inexcusable, and I'm ashamed.

Just kidding! This is the ffmpeg part of the conversion. If you're using this on a system where creating large temp files is not excusable I would strongly advise against using gifify.

Seriously, all this does is create a file with ffmpeg and then convert it into a gif using ImageMagick. There are way better solutions, but this one works best for me and some other people.

That said, if you know of a way to do this reliably using pipes and without a temp file, I'd happily update it.

[chasegiunta]

@jclem Closing, as this is the intended behavior.

[jclem]

@chasegiunta I'd definitely like to find a more efficient way to do this, I just haven't had time to look into it yet. I just took some offense to being told that there is no excuse for it.

[chasegiunta]

Totally mistyped the after value btw... Supposed to be 4.8 GB

[jclem]

That I've definitely never seen in the entire time I've been using this. Is this reproducible with other files? I'm using a fairly standard ffmpeg command.