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Ruben2776 / PicView

Fast, free and customizable image viewer for Windows 10 and 11.
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Support for animated GIFs #29

Closed Mennaruuk closed 3 years ago

Mennaruuk commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. PicView supports a wide assortment of image filetypes. While GIF is one of them, animated GIFs are not.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like to know if PicView can support playing animated GIFs, as this is vital for me not to have another program installed just to play one image filetype.

Describe alternatives you've considered I tried opening the GIF right from within PicView as opposed to opening the image directly. Didn't help. The animation still played in Internet Explorer, Firefox, IrfanView, Windows Photo Viewer, Photos, etc.

Additional context Running latest version of PicView on latest release of Windows 10.

Example animated GIF

Ruben2776 commented 3 years ago

Hi there, thanks for your feature request.

I'm looking into different solutions on how to implement support for playing animated gifs and would like to add it in a future release.

Mennaruuk commented 3 years ago

Appreciate it! Love your tool

Ruben2776 commented 3 years ago

Sorry for the late work, I haven't been well, but I am better now and back to working on it. version 1.3 https://github.com/Ruben2776/PicView/releases/tag/1.3 has been uploaded with animated .GIF support.

Mennaruuk commented 3 years ago

THANK YOU SO FREAKIN’ MUCH! Don’t worry about it, I really appreciate your considering it in the first place. Now I can finally open animated GIFs with PicView and stop using the bloat that is Windows Photos.