# gifcap mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für gifcap in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:gifcap
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gifcap
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:gifcap
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.0.4
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Capture video from an Android device and make a gif
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/outlook/gifcap>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/outlook/gifcap>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gifcap (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.0.4
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

gifcap is a small command-line screen-capture utility for turning recordings from a connected Android device into GIF files.

### Projektgeschichte

The project appeared as an Outlook/Microsoft shell script repository in December 2016. Its README describes a focused workflow: use Android's device recording path together with common Unix video tools to create shareable GIFs from app behavior.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Its adoption footprint is narrow but practical. Homebrew packaged it for macOS users, while the upstream README also documents copying the script onto a PATH on other Unix-like systems with adb, ffmpeg, and ffprobe installed.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Practitioners use gifcap when debugging Android interactions, demonstrating animation polish, or sharing visual defects in chat and issue trackers. The command records a physical Android device until interrupted and writes the resulting GIF to the requested filename.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

gifcap is package-manager-interesting because it wraps a common Android development chore in one executable and depends on tools many developers already install: adb, ffmpeg, and a shell.

### Zeitleiste

- 2016: GitHub repository created.
- 2017: Tagged 1.0.x releases established the Homebrew-packaged script line.

### Related projects

- gifcap sits near ffmpeg-based screen-recording wrappers and Android SDK tooling rather than general-purpose GIF editors.

### Quellen

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gifcap>
- <https://github.com/outlook/gifcap>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/outlook/gifcap/master/README.md>


## Sicherheitshinweise

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gifcap.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/gifcap.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph