No gif animation :(

sessionID · Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 9:11 pm Post subject: No gif animation :(

I have gwenview and qiv installed, the problem is that they don't show animated gifs. The picture is there, but no animation - only the first "slide".

In mozilla (binary, not from source) it's ok.

Qiv gives this error: "GIF-LIB error: Wrong record type detected."
Gwenview simply don't animate the pictures

I have giflib 4.1.0-r3 and libungif 4.1.0-r1 (latest stable).
Have remerged them and qiv too, but no change.

Any ideas?

TripKnot · Apprentice Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 213

If your looking for a nice image viewer check out XnView (www.xnview.org). There is no ebuild for it but the rpm installs very easily.

You can have a simple interface to just view a single image (xnview picture.jpg) or you can use a more ACDSee-like interface with. (xnview -browser).

sessionID · Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 9:39 pm Post subject:

Thanks, I know XnView, but now I want to know the source of this problem... :wink:

[XnView is not installed now, so I can't tell if gif works with it or not.]

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

And I thought you were asking how to turn animated gifs OFF not turning them ON.

But you might check the following in your pref.js (Mozilla preferences in .mozilla)

user_pref("image.animation_mode", "none");

will disable animated gifs and give you precisely the behavior you are describing.

sessionID · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 6:21 am Post subject: Re: No gif animation :(

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

ahh sorry misread that

sessionID · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 5:09 pm Post subject:

TripKnot · Apprentice Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 213

I'm not even sure if qiv supports animated gifs, thats why I suggested xnview as a replacement.
Qiv is a very tiny app, iv may have better support.