Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Maybe it would be a good idea (or not) to use javascript to ease on server side CPU usage:https://bgrins.github.io/videoconverter.jsIt's quite bruteforce and it is a really large javascript file, however you could leave out all the unneeded codecs for reducing the size. Also you could first preprocess the video on server side (clipping the time interval, maybe resizing) and only leave the gif encoding to the client.