[UBUNTU] Automated bootanimation.zip builder - (UPDATED) - you just need an animated GIF!

[Guest glossywhite]

I've built this kit to automate the creation of "bootanimation.zip" on Ubuntu/Linux. It's just a shell script etc. Try it :mellow:

[EDIT]

I apologise if you have already tried this script, and it didn't work. I forgot that I had "imagemagick" installed on the test PC. You need to install "imagemagick" (trivial) to use this script:

For Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

All you need to do is unzip, replace the sample GIF with the animated GIF you want as boot animation, and then run the file "do.sh".

Before anyone asks... YES, IT'S MAGIC!!!

## 05/05/2011 ##

Updated to fix an issue where alpha channel transparency in GIF was not preserved in conversion to PNG frames.

Made sample GIF more interesting :-)

bootanimation_builder_kit_Ubuntu_V2.zip

Edited May 5, 2011 by glossywhite

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

not bad glossywhite

but usually you have a part1 too in the zip animation

you should add it in the script

[Guest glossywhite]

not bad glossywhite

but usually you have a part1 too in the zip animation

you should add it in the script

Thank you.

"part1" is only used if there are to be two animations. Maybe I'll update it later.

[Guest wbaw]

ffmpeg would do it from any type of video. gifs are limited to 256 colours :mellow:

[Guest glossywhite]

ffmpeg would do it from any type of video. gifs are limited to 256 colours :o

That's a great idea! Will look into it. The only problem with this, is that a video can be almost any length, whereas an animated GIF is generally pretty short in length; can you imagine having 3 mins of frames in a boot animation? Talk about overkill. I'll consider it as a (very) good idea, though.

Could be good if some sort of primitive video trimming UI were built in, so the user could crop the part they'd like. Any ideas? :mellow:

Edited May 4, 2011 by glossywhite