When I try to open an animated .gif with GPicView (the default image viewer) I get an error: "Couldn’t recognize the image file format for file “animation.gif”. If the .gif is a single frame with no animation it opens fine. I have giflib installed but this doesn’t seem to help. Is there a way to get GPicView to play animated .gifs?
Failing that, is there another image viewer as light and quick that supports this?
Unfortunately gif or motion jpeg only with another viewer, or with the suggestion of @McQ.
But it is possible to visualize without extra installations, in AL use the mpv video player.
To edit / create you can use Gimp, Blender, Gifcurry and others…
Thanks for the suggestions!
Turns out that the .gif I was trying to play was corrupted or misnamed so I ended up trying them all as none of them worked at first. With a proper .gif they all work fine. Another difference is that GPicView will show a static frame of an animation rather than just complaining about the image file format.
I ended up going with Viewnoir since it automatically scales the window to fit the image. All were very fast though so it was just my preference on this.
I wanted an application that could view animated and static .gifs so that I could keep the extension associated with one program rather than having to manually select a different viewer depending on the file. Happy now, thanks again!
@GrimFrenzy Glad you’ve got it sorted, Since this was a support related question, please mark your comment above as the solution and the topic header as solved.
Thanks.