As you may have noticed, I’ve been having some fun lately converting video to animated GIFs. If you want to join in the fun, follow along with me 
- Install MPlayer
- Find the video you want to convert (any format MPlayer can read)
- Run this on your command prompt (BASH/cmd/etc.): mplayer YOURVIDEO.avi -vo gif89a:FPS.0:OUTPUTFILE.gif
If you have ImageMagick installed, you can then crop your animated GIF using the command: convert -crop WIDTHxHEIGHT-CROPRIGHT+CROPTOP -crop WIDTHxHEIGHT+CROPLEFT-CROPBOTTOM OUTPUTFILE.gif CROPPEDFILE.gif
I said it would be fun, not simple 
And now, a video of me being thrown off a horse:
