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jdig4240 · 2016-03-04, 17:53

Hello, I set up my Kodi system using Eminence skin, I created nice loooking .gif animations to use as the home button thumbnails. These work perfectly on my Kodi setup on my Windows 10 PC, but when I use my build on android version of Kodi, the .gif images do not work. How do I make them work on Kodi android version?? I tried adding .gif to the advanced settings .xml for pictures and video and no luck using the latest Jarvis 16. Please help devs.. Thank you!!

jdig4240 · 2016-03-07, 02:25

Any ideas?

jdig4240 · 2016-03-09, 15:00

No Kodi devs here??

**fritsch** · 2016-03-09, 16:25

They will come if you post your Debug Log ...

link5 · 2016-03-09, 20:18

Animated gifs stopped working for me in v16 (FireTV v1). Appears to be related to libgif not being properly packaged in android releases [ref].

Code:
49:59 T:18446744072548919104 WARNING: CSkinInfo: failed to load skin settings

49:59 T:18446744072511994064   ERROR: Unable to load libgif.so, reason: (null)

49:59 T:18446744072511994064   ERROR: Gif::Gif(): Could not load giflib

jdig4240 · 2016-03-12, 05:40

(2016-03-09, 20:18)link5 Wrote: Animated gifs stopped working for me in v16 (FireTV v1). Appears to be related to libgif not being properly packaged in android releases [ref].

Code:
12:49:59 T:18446744072548919104 WARNING: CSkinInfo: failed to load skin settings 12:49:59 T:18446744072511994064 ERROR: Unable to load libgif.so, reason: (null) 12:49:59 T:18446744072511994064 ERROR: Gif::Gif(): Could not load giflib

Thank you for giving me some insight, are there any possible workaround? Adding a line in Advanced settings??

MrMC · 2016-03-12, 06:29

Adding a line in Advanced settings will not restore a missing file, the error means that libgif.so was not packaged when the release was built. Most likely never added to https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...akefile.in

Ponk the Android maintainer for that... oh wait, there is no Android maintainer any more Smile

~~Ned Scott~~ · 2016-03-12, 11:22

For the Jarvis FAQ (wiki) (not that anyone reads it ;) ), should I say this affects all gifs or just animated gifs on Android?

jdig4240 · 2016-03-13, 01:32

So , no plans to fix this??

**Ace** · 2016-03-13, 14:52

Thanks @MrMC for the hint! Should be fixed in 16.1: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/9339

jdig4240 · 2016-03-14, 14:42

(2016-03-13, 14:52)Ace Wrote: Thanks @MrMC for the hint! Should be fixed in 16.1: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/9339

Thank you!

yabel · 2016-03-15, 14:52

Glad to see this.. I posted this issue on a couple threads.. Glad it caught the attention and a possible fix upcoming

jdig4240 · 2016-03-16, 02:09

Still not working in 16.1:
ERROR:Gif(): Could not load giflib
ERROR:Unable to load lib.gif.so, reason: (null)

~~Ned Scott~~ · 2016-03-16, 04:56

It hasn't been added yet.

jdig4240 · 2016-03-16, 14:44

(2016-03-16, 04:56)Ned Scott Wrote: It hasn't been added yet.

Oh, i think i see now. It looks like it should be added in 16.1 rc2 if i understand correctly.