Question

Is there any way to convert an animated gif to a video format (e.g. .avi) on Linux?

I have already tried

ffmpeg -i thegif.gif thevideo.avi

but all I get is the first image of the video.

Answer 1

I can suggest combination of imagemagick and ffmpeg

do this to extract each frame as png/jpeg

$magick> convert 'images.gif[0]' image.png

Do this to convert images to movie sequence

ffmpeg -f image2 -i image%d.jpg video.mpg

More help on commands

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-processing.php

http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/19-ffmpeg-commands-for-all-needs

http://electron.mit.edu/~gsteele/ffmpeg/