Animated images

[Genghis Khan]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:36:58 +0200
Genghis Khan <genghiskhan at gmx.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:52:07 +0000
> Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 12:39 +0100, Stefan Kost wrote:
> > 
> > > > Genghis Khan <genghiskhan at gmx.ca> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >> Can GStreamer play APNG and GIF images?
> > > >> MPlayer can play animated GIF images.
> > > 
> > > gdkpixbufdec might handle them.
> > 
> > I don't think it does. I wrote a patch to make gdkpixbufdec handle
> > animated gifs ages ago, but if I remember correctly I didn't push it
> > because all images had to be decoded into memory, which would have
> > made it easy to construct files that use ridiculous amounts of
> > memory or make the app crash.
> > 
> > Perhaps there's something in gst-ffmpeg that doesn't have this
> > problem.
> > 
> > Cheers
> >  -Tim
> > 
> > 
> 
> Where can this patch be found at?
> 
> 
> For the record, the reason of why I want this feature is because most
> of image viewers for *nix that are play animated GIF images can't
> handle big images of motion pictures in an efficient manner.
> 
> 
> File                        | Frames     | Mplayer | GPicView |
> Viewnior
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> scaled_...9cc8a0b33948b.gif |  26 (50ms) | ~15MB    | ~29MB   | ~32MB
> 9ccf7d4211.gif              | 623 (90ms) | ~14MB    | ~40MB   | ~44MB
> waterfall-one.gif           | 215 (30ms) | ~15MB    | ~199MB  | ~204MB
> 
> 
> Sources:
> https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/248089 491.8 kB (503,592 Bytes)
> http://i.lulzimg.com/9ccf7d4211.gif    90.4 kB (92,540 Bytes)
> https://social.mathaba.net/posts/652    5.1 MB (5,311,730 Bytes)
> 
> 
> May anyone test these images with KDE image viewers?
> 
> Gwenview
> 	http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/
> 	http://kde.org/applications/graphics/gwenview/
> 
> KSquirrel
> 	http://ksquirrel.sourceforge.net/
edit:	http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12317
> 
> KuickShow
> 	http://kuickshow.sourceforge.net/
> 	http://userbase.kde.org/KuickShow
> 
> 
> For more animated images with an unusual length at:
> https://joindiaspora.com/u/darkvador (DIASPORA*)
>