Support for animated GIFs

[Jeremias Volker]

I've seen that you guys have been working on animated GIF support: https://twitter.com/openframe_/status/706308281946521600  This would be a really nice feature!

What's the status of this?

Cheers.

[Jonathan Wohl]

We never got beyond experimentation with this. Goal was to find a gif player that didn't require a browser, which we did find (can't remember off-hand what it was?), but it didn't allow us to fill the screen or do some of the other manipulations we wanted. Would definitely be cool, and could be done with Chromium if nothing else... but a cli based GIF player would be ideal.

[Jeremias Volker]

I had a quick look for a CLI based GIF player. Couldn't find any either. I think doing this based on Chromium is better than nothing. I could give this one a go based on the website extension. 

What would be the best way to reuse the existing code and keeping the developments in it in sync, doing a fork of the website extension and pulling updates back into it as they get committed?

[Jonathan Wohl]

You could fork the website extension and then modify it, creating your own GIF extension. Even if it uses chromium, would be better to keep it separate so that in the future the GIF format isn't coupled to the Website format... if a good cli GIF player comes along, the you could just swap it out.

There are docs about setting up a dev environment: http://docs.openframe.io/dev-env-setup/

They should be mostly up-to-date, as not a lot has changed in the past couple years :/.