[libavg-users] Animated GIFs

[Ulrich von Zadow]

Hi,

I was just going to write that animated gifs are not supported, that  
the format is crap anyway (it is ;-)) and that you're better off  
converting the stuff to mpgs or movs, but then...

Have you loaded them as <video> nodes? It might just work, because  
ffmpeg (which is underneath the video decoding) supports a lot of  
obscure stuff.

cu,

   Uli

On Aug 21, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Alex Harrington wrote:

> Hi all
>
> You may remember I am working on a Digital Signage solution  
> utilising libavg for the frontend display. This is progressing well  
> and we're working with someone who is trialling the client as it  
> stands in a production environment.
>
> We're using 0.8.0 under Ubuntu 9.04.
>
> They were hoping to show animated gifs. The client renders the first  
> frame of the gif, but not the animation (in an image node). I've  
> tried getting the gif to render in a video node but it comes out  
> blank.
>
> Is there any way to get the animation working, or am I better  
> getting them to persue converting the gifs over to flv or similar?
>
> The code, for those interested, is at https://launchpad.net/ 
> ~alexharrington/xibo/pyclient
>
> Cheers
>
> Alex
>
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