Gifs freeze after upload?

[workinonstuff]

Hey folks i have a slight problem that maybe you can help me out with.

After uploading certain gif images they freeze when tried to playback on my forum. Its an intermittent occurrence that i cannot duplicate on command. I have disabled "Re-encode potentially dangerous image attachments" (i understand the risk) but after it is disabled i cannot post ANY image...the gif is clean and not a virus lol.

Does any one know a fix for this or something i am doing wrong?

[Kindred]

The issue that you are having is that
1- you upload animated gifs
2- your system resizes them

this will *ALWAYS* "freeze" the animation since the resizer can not resize every frame, it just does one frame and saves that.

The only way to stop this is to
1- do not allow users to upload their own avatars (if they store the avatar on an extrernal site, ti will use the image, as-is)
2- do not set your system to download and resize avatars which are too big

[workinonstuff]

Thanks for the fast help and reply! The gifs in question are not avatar images just attachments. I would rather not disable "resize attachment under post"....any other fix that im not aware of?

[Kindred]

nope...

anything that causes the image to be resized will "freeze" the animation.

[Arantor]

The attachment under a post is not the full size version, it only creates a smaller version (which won't be animated for the same reason as above), and when you click on it, the full size animated version should be there.

[workinonstuff]

Ty kindred

@arantor that is how MOST of them work...some freeze...resizing issue i guess?

[kat]

Why not upload the images to somewhere like Photobucket and use the IMG tags?

Thus:

[workinonstuff]

Very true k@. That seems like a very straight forward/space saving solution. I just didn't want to make an extra step (albeit a small one) for users

[Kindred]

I think there is a mod which may handle that, actually...


yup.
they removed it from the mod site... but
http://www.smfpersonal.net/downloads.html;sa=view;down=228

[kat]

Very true k@. That seems like a very straight forward/space saving solution. I just didn't want to make an extra step (albeit a small one) for users

Lazy buggers.

Copy/paste a link into image tags? How hard is that?

[workinonstuff]

    for some...IMPOSSIBLE! lol

[kat]

I don't even bother with clicking the icons, now. I just type the tags in, coz I find it quicker.

[workinonstuff]

ty for the mod! gonna try that