[jdig4240]

I wonder if there's any way to improve animated GIF playback.  KODI will play animated Gifs with it enabled in the advanced setting file, but there's no option to loop the GIFs (most animated GIFs are designed to loop) and the picture viewer trips up on non-animated GIF files with animation enabled (skips right over them as if they were a video that played with 1 frame).  Most of these issues would probably have to be fixed in KODI itself and I doubt there's much interest for animated GIFs by the devs, but if there was a way to at least loop them rather than stop playback after one play that would be great.

Ive never had an issue using .gif files in Kodi. Never had to edit advanced settings either. Maybe the .gif files your using arent created as a loop? You may want to try using this online tool and set the option to loop forever..https://ezgif.com/