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Title: .Gif format viewer???
Post by: acb5649 on March 15, 2008, 05:27:01 PM

Would .gif format be a hassle to get into Rockbox?
It is a format that can be used to view movies!
PLEASE REPLY SOON!!!

Title: Re: .Gif format viewer???
Post by: AlexP on March 15, 2008, 05:43:24 PM

I have removed the silly colours from your post to make it a bit easier to read.

Saying

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PLEASE REPLY SOON!!!

is likely to have the opposite effect.

A gif image viewer could be added if someone wrote it.  As for gif movies, they are:

Huge
They have no sound.
They are only 8 bit, which only the greyscale targets are less than.

If you really want to write one do, but don't hold your breath for any of the devs wanting to.

Title: Re: .Gif format viewer???
Post by: Chronon on March 15, 2008, 06:20:07 PM

If you want a starting point, it looks like fxb from iPodLinux has put together a GIF viewer.  You can find his sources here:

http://ipodlinux.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29269&highlight=gif+viewer&sid=a664c03d281d161ed1490e6d7513ecce]GIFViewer (http://)

It says that he stripped part of the GIF loading code out of the GIMP.  Maybe that can provide a starting point if you are interested.

Title: Re: .Gif format viewer???
Post by: MarcGuay on March 15, 2008, 06:35:58 PM

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I think Llorean is a wierd name!!!

FYI, the word Weird is an exception to the "I before E except after C" English rule.

Title: Re: .Gif format viewer???
Post by: linuxstb on March 16, 2008, 05:54:02 AM

There's a gif viewer on Flyspray:

http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/3037

Although it hasn't been updated for almost a year, and I've no idea how well it works.  But if someone wanted to continue the work...

Title: Re: .Gif format viewer???
Post by: zajacattack on March 16, 2008, 03:13:38 PM

For what reasons has the patch not been accepted yet? Is it incomplete?

Title: Re: .Gif format viewer???
Post by: AlexP on March 16, 2008, 03:18:44 PM

Well from the comments on the task it looks like it is incomplete, yes.

Title: Re: .Gif format viewer???
Post by: Chronon on March 16, 2008, 03:39:48 PM

Quote from: linuxstb on March 16, 2008, 05:54:02 AM

There's a gif viewer on Flyspray:

http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/3037

Although it hasn't been updated for almost a year, and I've no idea how well it works.  But if someone wanted to continue the work...

 ::)

I don't know why I overlooked that.  I have even checked in on its progress last year some time.

Title: Re: .Gif format viewer???
Post by: saanaito on March 16, 2008, 08:01:03 PM

A GIF viewer would be nice for showing off short animations like this one (http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs8/f/2005/337/8/b/SMDoorspeed1.gif) (shown below) or this one (http://gprime.net/images/gifanimation/movie9.gif), but noone would want it for movies (heck, Rockbox has the MPEG player for that!) or anything else.

(http://
http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs8/f/2005/337/8/b/SMDoorspeed1.gif)

Title: Re: .Gif format viewer???
Post by: kzap333 on April 12, 2008, 06:00:49 AM

Quote from: Strife89 on March 16, 2008, 08:01:03 PM

A GIF viewer would be nice for showing off short animations like this one (http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs8/f/2005/337/8/b/SMDoorspeed1.gif) (shown below) or this one (http://gprime.net/images/gifanimation/movie9.gif), but noone would want it for movies (heck, Rockbox has the MPEG player for that!) or anything else.

(http://
http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs8/f/2005/337/8/b/SMDoorspeed1.gif)

It must be simpler just to do a gif to mpeg conversion .
Though I gif view would still be quite cool for little avatars and stuff but I can't see why you would want to use it for anything other than a short looped animation.