Developer guide

🐘 GIF to AVI with PHP

Convert animated GIFs to AVI video for dramatically smaller files and smoother playback in modern players and pipelines.

PHPREST APIGIF → AVI

Use this guide to convert GIF to AVI with PHP, then adapt the example to your own app, backend, or processing flow.

Overview

What this guide covers.

Conversion path

Use Converterer to accept or prepare a GIF file, trigger a GIF to AVI job, and return the output to your app or workflow.

PHP example

Start with the example on this page, then adapt auth, file handling, polling, and result delivery to your environment.

Production usage

This is best suited to backend jobs, async processing, content pipelines, and repeatable conversion flows rather than one-off browser scripting.

Quick start

Get a working example in place.

Code example

GIF to AVI php

<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://api.converterer.com/convert');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_USERPWD => getenv('CONVERTERER_API_KEY') . ':',
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => [
        'input' => new CURLFile('input.gif'),
        'output_format' => 'avi',
    ],
]);

$task = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
echo $task['id'];
// Result lands at <your-destination>/<id>.avi

Implementation notes

What to handle in your app.

API endpoint

Conversion endpoint text

https://api.converterer.com/convert

Use your API key for authentication and submit the source file plus the target output format in your job request.

App responsibilities

source file upload or storage handoff
job submission and status handling
success/failure handling in your backend
download or delivery of the AVI output

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