ffmpeg is great. I wrote a thing to proxy a twitch livestream and return it as lazy animated gif, so it could be embedded into, like, old-school messageboards

ffmpeg is great. I wrote a thing to proxy a twitch livestream and return it as lazy animated gif, so it could be embedded into, like, old-school messageboards and proprietary chat clients that allow hotlinking images. At the core it was feeding a .m3u8 URL into ffmpeg and asking it for a gif. When it turned out that gif was kind of awful for that use-case, I just asked ffmpeg to give me an mjpeg instead, problem solved.