Hi, I was just going to write that animated gifs are not supported, that the format is crap anyway (it is ;-)) and that you're better off converting the stuff to mpgs or movs, but then...
Have you loaded them as <video> nodes? It might just work, because ffmpeg (which is underneath the video decoding) supports a lot of obscure stuff. cu, Uli On Aug 21, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Alex Harrington wrote: > Hi all > > You may remember I am working on a Digital Signage solution > utilising libavg for the frontend display. This is progressing well > and we're working with someone who is trialling the client as it > stands in a production environment. > > We're using 0.8.0 under Ubuntu 9.04. > > They were hoping to show animated gifs. The client renders the first > frame of the gif, but not the animation (in an image node). I've > tried getting the gif to render in a video node but it comes out > blank. > > Is there any way to get the animation working, or am I better > getting them to persue converting the gifs over to flv or similar? > > The code, for those interested, is at https://launchpad.net/ > ~alexharrington/xibo/pyclient > > Cheers > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > libavg-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.datenhain.de/mailman/listinfo/libavg-users > -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. Ulrich von Zadow | +49-172-7872715 Jabber: [email protected] Skype: uzadow _______________________________________________ libavg-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.datenhain.de/mailman/listinfo/libavg-users
