Will animated GIFs work on ipod video?

Title says it all. Will animated Gifs work on ipod video?

Because the ipod does not recognize the .gif (Graphics Interchange Format) file format.

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Greetings,
I have a RoboHelp (FlashHelp) piece at
http://iqweb.mcny.edu/iqweb/Student_IQWeb/userGuide/student_IQWeb.htm,
which has a few animated GIFs, you can find one at the end of the
page in the Do It Online book, View Application Status topic. There
are two animated airplane smilies marking the end of the page and
the end of the documentation. This work is hosted by a server
maintained in-house at the college for which the piece was
developed.
I have the same work hosted outside for my own portfolio, at
http://mywebniche.com/ID/MCNY/RoboHelp/Student_IQWeb/userGuide/student_iqweb.htm
and the animated GIFs do not animate.
Also, when I view the piece at the -in-house location
http://iqweb.mcny.edu/iqweb/Student_IQWeb/userGuide/student_IQWeb.htm
from outside the college, ie, outside the LAN, the very same
animated GIFs also fail to animate.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on? It is not a
browser setting, I've checked all those, they're the same inside
and out. It can't be the server per se since the in-house server's
animated GIFs work fine when viewing from in-house, but not from
the "outside." Conversely, the animated GIFs in the RoboHelp on the
outside server animate just fine when viewed from within the
college LAN, but also fail when viewed from the outside.
Why would a GIF animate inside a LAN but not outside?
regards,
stevenjs

Hi stevenjs
Sorry to have to be the bearer of bad news. I just tried both
links and in both cases, the gifs were animating just dandy. The
only thing that comes to mind is that I noticed your site stresses
IE as the suggested browser and I'm using Firefox. But I'm thinking
even that shouldn't really have a bearing on a simple animated
.GIF.
Cheers... Rick

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I'm trying to get an animated GIF working in my swing program. I am drawing on a JPanel using paintComponent.
Here's the thing: It will animate, (faster then it should) and then pause animation for 5 seconds, then animate again. I am trying to achieve constant animation, at the framerate in which is set inside of the GIF file. Is there a better method to use then what I am using? It's not a repaint problem, as I am repainting constantly. Here's what I got:
String filename = "myimage.gif";
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String filename = "myimage.gif"
Image img = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(filename);
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
     g.drawImage(img,x+28,y+79,this);
}You shouldn't try to get the image from the toolkit everytime. Just get it once, and everytime you paint the image, the next frame will be painted.
To introduce a constant delay you can use javax.swing.Timer to simply repaint the panel whenever you want to. Here's sort of a basic example
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.Timer;
import java.awt.Image;
public class GifAnimation extends JPanel
        implements java.awt.event.ActionListener {
    private Image img;
    private Timer timer;
    private int delay;
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        img = new ImageIcon(toolkit.getImage(fileName)).getImage();
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                                                   img.getHeight(null)));
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Drag and drop an animated gif to iWeb.
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When I drop the animated GIF into Keynote 3.0.2, the first frame shows fine (with transparency and all). But when I animate it, the background goes red (the main color in this particular movie) and some trace of the previous frames stays. It seems like:
1. Rather than displaying the GIF frame-by-frame, each frame is getting layered onto the previous frames.
2. Keynote doesn't like the alpha channel for some reason.
Problem 1 is also present if I open the GIF in Preview (is that supposed to be the correct behavior of an animated GIF?). Problem 2 seems to be Keynote-specific.
Any suggestions for a work-around on this? The animated GIFs work fine if rendered without the alpha channel, but it'd look so much better with transparency!
iMac 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.9)

MegaPOV doesn't have a GIF output option. The choices are PNG, Targa, PPM, and hdr (not familiar with that last one). I don't know if PPM even has alpha-capability.
So in some way, I have to convert PNG to GIF. The tools I have to do this are ImageMagick and Gimp. I tried them both, then viewed the results using several programs. Results are tabulated below -- (1) means that problem 1 from above was apparent (ie, parts of the previous frames were visible under the current frame); (2) means that problem 2 was visible (ie, the transparent parts took on some background color).
If I didn't know how to change the default white background in the program, I couldn't tell whether problem (2) occurred, since the movie made with Gimp had a white background in Keynote.
Using ImageMagick 6.2.9 to convert PNG->GIF and animate GIF:
* viewing with Safari 2.0.4 : (1), can't tell for (2)
* viewing with Preview 3.0.9 : (1), can't tell for (2)
* viewing with Firefox 2.0.0.3 : (1)
* viewing with Keynote 3.0.2 : (1), (2) -- alpha goes red
Using Gimp 2.2.11 to convert PNG->GIF and animate GIF:
* viewing with Safari : (1), can't tell for (2)
* viewing with Preview : (1), can't tell for (2)
* viewing with Firefox : (1)
* viewing with Keynote : (1), (2) -- alpha goes white
I only converted the first few frames using Gimp, since I was doing it by hand.
All of this makes me wonder whether I'm dreaming the impossible, since problem (1) is universally present. It also makes me pretty sure that problem (2) is Keynote-specific.
If there are any other tools that will convert/animate GIFs on a modern Mac, I'd love to hear about them. My UNIX-y tools seem to be failing me here. The Mac tools I remember from "back in the day" -- GIFBuilder and GIFConverter -- seem to have been abandoned around the beginning of Mac OS X. GIFBuilder won't even load my files, and GIFConverter still lacks alpha support in PNG.

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We then tested animated GIFs made from Macromedia Flash and also a freeware animated GIF editor, and both work out fine in the same java app.
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Let me show you the source I have:
* @author Dobromir Gospodinov
* @version 1.0
* Date: Dec 6, 2002
* Time: 6:47:53 PM
package test.advertserver;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.io.IOException;
public class Test {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
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               ed.setPage("http://localhost:8200/servlet?key=value");
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               e.printStackTrace();
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          panel.add(ed);
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          frame.pack();
          frame.setVisible(true);
}Part of the returned from servlet HTML includes an img tag:
<img src="/images/MyAnimatedGif.gif" alt="animated gif comment" width="480" height="50" border="0">Let us assume that MyAnimatedGif.gif has 10 frames and gif is looped - when the 10th is dipslayed it has to display the 1st and so on.
JEditorPane displays frames from 1 to 10 correctly but does not start from the first again. Instead JEditorPane displays a broken image.
I locate where the problem arise:
JEditorPane has an HTMLEditorKit that creates javax.swing.text.html.ImageView instance for every IMG tag.
And here is the problem:
ImageView has an ImageObserver necessary for the asynchronous image download. ImageObserver has the imageUpdate method. But this imageUpdate method is never called with ALLBITS flag raised up. Instead, after the last frame of MyAnimatedGif.gif is downloaded the imageUpdate method is called with flag ERROR raised up. Obviously this is a bug of Sun's implementation. Finaly the flag ALLBITS has to be received for normal end of image observing. But ALLBITS flag does not come.
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Thank You in advance,
Dobromir Gospodinov
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import java.awt.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.*;
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public static void main(String argv[])
throws Exception
new AnimatedGifTester();
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throws Exception
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"http://www.gif.com/ImageGallery/Animated/Characters/Cartoon/java.gif",
"http://www.webdeveloper.com/animations/bnifiles/anielg.gif",
"http://www.webdeveloper.com/animations/bnifiles/cat2.gif",
"http://images.animfactory.com/animations/animals/fish/big_fish_swimming_md_wht.gif",
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"http://www.webdeveloper.com/animations/bnifiles/at_sign_rotating.gif",
"http://www.webdeveloper.com/animations/bnifiles/arrow_1.gif",
"http://www.gif.com/ImageGallery/Animated/Characters/Cartoon/javaacro.gif",
"http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/2D/samples/suite/Image/duke.running.gif",
"http://www.gif.com/ImageGallery/Animated/SouthPark/Cartoon/stan.gif"
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for (int idx = 0; idx < images.length; idx++)
buffer.append("<img src='" + images[idx] + "'>");
buffer.append("</body></html>");
String html = buffer.toString();
// save a copy of the html to open in a browser so we can see what it's
// supposed to look like
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writer.write(html);
writer.close();
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