Capture CLI Output as Animated GIF

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Some questions and answers on codegolf have helpful animated GIFs which display the output of a command line program.

Some GIFs look great, like this one from the Make me a fake loader question:

Others look corrupt and choppy, like this one from this answer:

What are some methods for making great GIFs of command line program output?

(Assume Windows 7 is the platform, although macOS/BSD/Linux answers would be appreciated.)

You can recording your terminal with asciinema and then pass it through a2gif.

Solution involving the Terminal :

Solutions using GUI tools (I didn't test any them !):

try this :

ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -ignore_loop 0 -i loop.gif -filter_complex "[0][1]overlay=0:H-100" output.mp4