Loop GIF animations
It would be nice to loop gif animations, instead of staying at the last frame. For instance if I load a 20-seconds animation and the frames changing time is 5 minutes, I see the last frame for too long and looping would be a better option.
Vitaly Ovchinnikov
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Hello,
ok then please submit a NEW idea and we will see if we can do it.
we need to close the current one.
Regards,
Arnaud.
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Vitaly Ovchinnikov
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Well, the initial idea was to loop the animation for the same time we display static images. When I tried that on a previous firmware version it stops on the last frame so I decided that you simply hold the last frame for the rest of the slideshow period, but as you've fixed it my request looks odd now :)
What I want is to keep the animation running in loop for the period I set in the slideshow settings. Doesn't matter if it is a static image, or animation, doesn't matter if a gif is followed by a gif or jpeg - if I set the slideshow to switch each 5 minutes - it switches each 5 minutes, looping the animations if necessary.
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Vitaly Ovchinnikov
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The last time I updated the firmware was about two months ago. I've just checked with a new animated gif and it hanged at the first frame after playing itself once. I waited for about 20 seconds, but it didn't switch.
Then I noticed the new firmware notification, so I updated the device and tested that file again. This time it works as you described: plays once, hangs on the first frame for 3 seconds and then switches to the next image.
It is better than before, seems you guys made some improvements last month or two, but this is still not what I want. Imagine a funny gif that I would like to share with my family. I upload it to the device, but it shows up for just 5 seconds, so there are no chances for anyone to see it or say to someone else "look, that's funny". For that reason I set the slideshow delay to 5 minutes so we all have enough time to have a look. And from my point of view animated gifs should follow the same idea: 5 minutes of looping, not just one loop. Or at least this needs to be configurable somewhere.
Btw, I tested on a folder with two files: an animated gif and a static jpeg. The frame works in the "random" mode and I opened that folder and clicked "show all the images from that folder". It stucked on the first frame of the gif animation and I had to click "next" to switch to the other image. I was unable to reproduce it since then, tried about 10 times. This happened on the latest firmware, so maybe something is still wrong there.
Anyway, it would be very nice if you implement the looping options.