Ticket #1894 (new defect)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

Animated GIF's are not supported as media files

Reported by: hans Assigned to: anonymous
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: generic Version:
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Description

Animated GIF's are not supported as media files. I tried to upload one GIF animation and it came out as a static GIF:

Change History

04/06/09 19:04:27 changed by hans

I discussed this problem with Pjotr. All GIF files are automatically converted to JPEG and therefore animations are lost.

I see the following solution for this problem:

  • file type and image dimensions are checked before the conversion and resize
  • GIF files are not converted. If the longest side is 500 px or shorter, files will be displayed as they are. If the longest side is more than 500px, 500px will be specified as width (or height) in HTML.
  • JPEG cover image is created for GIF file