What viewers can play gif animated images

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I don't seem to have on a Fluxbox Manjaro an image viewer that can play the animated gif files.

I think that gwenview can, and I have it on my KDE system, but on a Fluxbox system I would like to avoid too many KDE dependencies.

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You can you use nearly any web-browser, as they should play gifs just fine.

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Linux – Find All Animated GIF Files in Directory and Subdirectories

This can easily be done using ImageMagick

identify -format '%n %i\n' -- *.gif

12 animated.gif
1 non_animated.gif

identify -format %n prints the number of frames in the gif; for animated gifs, this number is bigger than 1.

(ImageMagick is probably readily available in your distro's repositories for an easy install)

Loop MP4 From Converted Animated Gif

You can make a looping GIF by setting a bit in the header of the file (been doing that since 1989), but there is no such facility that I know of in the .mp4 files. For them looping is controlled via an additional, player dependent, file.

The absence of that also is the reason why you don't have any looping .mp4 on YouTube.

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