[Shadowsoul]

Hey all, hoping there is someone that can shed some light on an issue I have encountered.

I am trying to use a 10 second movie as my home background by converting it to an animated GIF.
The resulting GIF is of a significant file size (around 300 MB).

When I select it as the background, it only displays about a second of it.

If I downsize the image (I'm testing this out by lowering the resolution) a longer bit of it plays.
At 100MB about 2.5-3 seconds play, at 35MB arount 6 seconds play.
It is however of an unusably low resolution (240p).


Does anyone know it this is a restriction in the library that handles the animated GIFS? Hardware should be more than enough (have 3.5GB free memory, CPU load is at most 10% on the home page with the image playing).
Is there some advanced setting that can increase this limit?


Grateful for any answers.

[Fail$tyle420]

It's definitely because of kodi not being able to handle the size. For Krypton they are supposedly re-writing the video player, so I would ASSUME that there will be better support in the future.

[Shadowsoul]

It's definitely because of kodi not being able to handle the size. For Krypton they are supposedly re-writing the video player, so I would ASSUME that there will be better support in the future.

Thanks,

Pretty much in line with what I was suspecting.

Time to purchase more patience and wait for 17

[Ace]

One full hd rgb (gif) frame is approximately 6mb! Currently a gif gets fully decoded before playback, so I've limited to 12 hull hd frames, memory-wise. On demand decoding will need some time to implement.

[Fail$tyle420]

One full hd rgb (gif) frame is approximately 6mb! Currently a gif gets fully decoded before playback, so I've limited to 12 hull hd frames, memory-wise. On demand decoding will need some time to implement.

Good to know, thanks!