Squashed commit of the following:

commit 4fe0af4e6a4a15ee4796a857e79ad0fe9b72c0f1
Author: Dylan <dylanpdx@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 28 18:09:25 2022 +0000

    Misc. changes to MP4 Looping function

commit 42ef8845c38c5a74e56da3c5f035d5a6c091c86a
Author: Dylan <dylanpdx@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 27 20:00:22 2022 +0000

    Abandoning raw gif conversion for now; looping vid instead

commit b61938b340a02ac8cfab02048b7e9deaf87edbf5
Author: Dylan <dylanpdx@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 27 19:38:58 2022 +0000

    More work on WIP gif generation

commit 3bc6e7e0da1ce6ae905c80bbbaaa55a68050de52
Author: Dylan <dylanpdx@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Dec 26 14:46:46 2022 +0000

    Experimental gif conversion

gifConvert/conv.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#!/bin/bash -e
+
+usage(){
+    echo "Usage: $0 [options] output"
+    echo "Options:"
+    echo "  --help              Show this help"
+    echo "  -u, --url           URL of the video"
+    echo "  -w, --max-width     Maximum width of the output"
+    echo "  -h, --max-height    Maximum height of the output"
+    echo "  -t, --threads       Number of threads to use"
+    exit 1
+}
+
+URL=""
+MAXW=400
+MAXH=267
+THREADS=1
+OUTPUT="out.gif"
+FPS=10
+
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+    case "$1" in
+        --help)
+            usage
+            ;;
+        -u|--url)
+            URL="$2"
+            shift
+            ;;
+        -w|--max-width)
+            MAXW="$2"
+            shift
+            ;;
+        -h|--max-height)
+            MAXH="$2"
+            shift
+            ;;
+        -t|--threads)
+            THREADS="$2"
+            shift
+            ;;
+        -f|--fps)
+            FPS="$2"
+            shift
+            ;;
+        -*)
+            echo "Unknown option: $1"
+            usage
+            ;;
+        *)
+            OUTPUT="$1"
+            ;;
+    esac
+    shift
+done
+
+# make unique temp directory
+TEMPDIR=$( mktemp -d )
+
+./ffmpeg -i "$URL" -vf "scale=if(gte(iw\,ih)\,min($MAXW\,iw)\,-2):if(lt(iw\,ih)\,min($MAXH\,ih)\,-2)" -threads $THREADS "$TEMPDIR/frame%04d.png"
+./gifski -o "$TEMPDIR/out.gif" --fast --fps $FPS --quality=90 $TEMPDIR/frame*.png
+#./gifsicle -O3 "$TEMPDIR/out.gif" -o "$OUTPUT"
+mv "$TEMPDIR/out.gif" "$OUTPUT"
+rm -rf "$TEMPDIR"