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Omni

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Animated Gifs
« on: March 04, 2017, 08:59:49 pm »
I'm still on version 20.  Has animated gif support been added yet, i.e., to version 21 or 22?
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Re: Animated Gifs
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2017, 05:46:43 am »
I see GIF listed under Options > File Types, so it's likely. You can try MC 22 and try it for yourself.
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Re: Animated Gifs
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2017, 06:29:39 am »
In an old thread, Matt said that you could play them by changing the media type to video.  I haven't tried that but it might work.
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Re: Animated Gifs
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2017, 01:32:01 pm »
Quote from: JimH on March 05, 2017, 06:29:39 am
In an old thread, Matt said that you could play them by changing the media type to video.  I haven't tried that but it might work.

Yeah, I found that thread in my search prior to creating this thread, but that was back in the v.20 forum.  I was hoping native support was added in v.21 or v.22 without having to jump through hoops to trick MC into playing the animation.  ;)  Also, I'm not even sure that will work.
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Re: Animated Gifs
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2017, 08:33:33 am »
It looks like there's a little problem with this.

Coming next build:
Fixed: Switching the media type of a GIF to video wouldn't start it playing in the video engine.
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Re: Animated Gifs
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2017, 09:32:37 am »
Quote from: Matt on March 06, 2017, 08:33:33 am
It looks like there's a little problem with this.

Coming next build:
Fixed: Switching the media type of a GIF to video wouldn't start it playing in the video engine.

so would one use  bla.gif.mp4 or just to bla.mp4
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Re: Animated Gifs
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2017, 09:44:53 am »
Quote from: TAO1857 on March 06, 2017, 09:32:37 am
so would one use  bla.gif.mp4 or just to bla.mp4

No.

Just change the [Media Type] tag in MC. But, apparently there is a bug so it doesn't work until the next build.
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Re: Animated Gifs
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2017, 09:51:36 am »
And we'll try to do even one better in a future build:
Changed: Made importing an animated GIF file automatically set the media type to video.
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Re: Animated Gifs
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2017, 10:32:09 am »
ok. thanks guys
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Re: Animated Gifs
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2017, 11:34:58 am »
Just a little note that there was some debate internally about my change, so I switched it so that the files still import as an image but at playback time the engine will be switched to the video engine.  Hopefully everybody is happy now!
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Re: Animated Gifs
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2017, 11:55:30 am »
No love for the superior Animated PNG (APNG) format? :P Chrome 59 should support it by default (leaving only Edge as the only mainstream browser without support).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/APNG
https://people-mozilla.org/~dolske/apng/demo.html
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Re: Animated Gifs
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2017, 01:00:35 am »
Quote from: Matt on March 06, 2017, 11:34:58 am
Just a little note that there was some debate internally about my change, so I switched it so that the files still import as an image but at playback time the engine will be switched to the video engine.  Hopefully everybody is happy now!

If this means that I can just double-click an animated gif (without fumbling about in its properties) and MC will automatically "play" it, then yes, I'm very happy.  :)  Thanks!  I'll upgrade to v.22 this weekend.
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Re: Animated Gifs
« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2017, 06:12:16 am »
Quote from: Omni on March 08, 2017, 01:00:35 am
If this means that I can just double-click an animated gif (without fumbling about in its properties) and MC will automatically "play" it, then yes, I'm very happy.  :)  Thanks!  I'll upgrade to v.22 this weekend.

It sure does.

Just a heads up that the change is coming in build 22.0.79, which we haven't released yet.
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Re: Animated Gifs
« Reply #13 on: January 03, 2018, 10:49:48 pm »
Okay, ten months later, I finally upgraded to your latest release, namely, v.23.0.91 (64-bit).  Not only are animated gifs not being imported as video media types (which is fine... maybe you changed your mind about that feature), but worse, I can't view them at all.  I just get a black display.  (They play fine in various other image viewers including Windows' default Photo viewer.)

Thumbnails are created just fine, so it's not like MC is having trouble reading the file; it just won't play (or display) them.  It doesn't matter if I set the media type to 'Video' or leave it as 'Image'.

Is this a known issue?

ETA:  Also, the same files at least display the first image frame in my older MC (v.20.0.132).  They don't animate, but that was the reason for this thread in the first place, so we already knew that.  8)
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Re: Animated Gifs
« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2018, 07:30:45 am »
Omni,
Please post any MC23 bugs in the build threads on the MC23 board.
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Re: Animated Gifs
« Reply #15 on: September 24, 2020, 10:51:32 am »
Is possible to use the .gif in the <img src>?. Right now is possible to add but is just a simple jpg and does not play as animated gif.
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