MultiGifView is a bare-bones Python program for viewing several .gif files at once, with their play-back synchronised.
The gifs are opened in two columns.
Install with pip
$ pip install multigifviewor with conda
$ conda install -c conda-forge multigifviewInstalling an unreleased version with pip from the git repo like this
$ python -m pip install --user https://github.com/johnomotani/multigifview.gitis expected to fail because of a missing man page file. As an alternative,
clone the repo and see DEVELOPMENT.md for how to install.
$ multigifview movie1.gif movie2.gif movie3.gif ...Once the window is opened:
play/pause - space, or click play button in bottom left
next frame - n, right arrow or seek-forward button in bottom left
previous frame - p, left arrow or seek-backward button in bottom left
end - e, down arrow, or skip-forward button in bottom left
beginning - b, up arrow, or skip-backward button in bottom left
zoom out - - or zoom-out button at bottom
zoom in - + or zoom-in button at bottom
zoom to scale factor - enter number (in %) into box in bottom panel and press enter
quit - q, Ctrl-q, Ctrl-w, Ctrl-x, button in bottom right or close the window
Command line argumens:
-c, --max-columns <i> : use at most <i> columns for display
-h, --help : print help text
-n, --no-titles: turn off titles over each gif
-v, --version : print the version number
-z, --zoom : set the initial zoom level in %
MultiGifView can be used from within Python code.
>>> from multigifview import show_gifs
>>> show_gifs("gif1.gif", "gif2.gif")Any number of gifs can be passed as positional arguments. max_columns can
be passed as a keyword argument. An argument titles=False can be passed to
turn off titles above gifs.
Contributions are welcome at the Github repo. For some notes on developing MultiGifView see DEVELOPMENT.md.
Contributors: John Omotani
From John Omotani to Peter Hill for writing the gui for hypnotoad from which I learned to make a Qt gui in Python.