Is it possible to support gifs?

[bond2k]

Hi

I'm using this awesome project to show movie posters. It would be great if I could also show animated movie posters in the gif format. Would that be possible?

Thanks

[jgodfrey]

Currently, it's not possible to display GIF images (animated or not). The system supports the following file types ATM:

PNG, JPG, JPEG, HEIF, and HEIC

I'd guess that supporting animated GIF's would likely be a sizeable task. Maybe @paddywwoof can provide more relevant comments?

[paddywwoof]

Hi, I think getting PIL (aka pillow module) to open GIF files would be very easy, and it's also easy to seek from frame to frame. However to show a series of frames as an animation at the expected FPS would be tricky. It's not really something OpenGL was cut out to do - better using a dedicated application but then it would have to run in the foreground and hide picframe.

Now it's lodged in the back of my mind I will see if any good ideas occur to me!

Paddy

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