Implement GIF decoder

Could you please make vlc player able to play animated ".gif"s please.

Version 2.0.1 can open them but get no picture and I was looking forward to finally using a good frame-by-frame .gif (animated) viewer for windows 7(32-bit). QuickTime tries but it doesn't do frame by frame and doesn't erase the previous image. =(

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Would also like to see this implemented. Commenting to provide a small bump.

FWIW, ffmpeg now has an animated GIF decoder (libav doesn't though). However image.c has a higher priority (10) than the avformat demuxer (2).

I just made the test, and commenting out the GIF89a entry in the formats table in modules/demux/image.c just makes VLC use libavformat instead and it just works fine playing the animation.

I'm not sure how to do the fallback properly though... (no, there isn't a clear distinction in the header, you have to count the frames)

+1 I just tried to play an animated GIF on VLC and it only displays the first frame.

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A few reason for this:

1. Wouldn't have to rely on a browser to view some big gif which some image viewer has memory issue with.
2. The ability to seek*.
3. The ability to change the speed of playback*.

• Which even browser doesn't support and only a few proprietary viewer that is ridden with ads has.

mentioned in issue #25375 (closed)

By default, VLC indeed still only shows the first gif frame. Sample attached:

marked this issue as related to #2077 (closed)

mentioned in issue #28165 (closed)

For now the workaround for command-line users is to specify --demux avformat.

Probably GIF should be dropped from the image demuxer as @mmu_man mentioned in #6697 (comment 181734) or a specific demuxer should be written for GIF (separate from the image demuxer).