koelner21 4 Posted May 17, 2025 Posted May 17, 2025 Hello that would also be a really nice feature for emby. These animated images look really good. I had them at KODI at the time, but since I only use emby, they are unfortunately gone. This should also be relatively easy to implement and the databases are all already available. Programs for this are called: Gimp, Photopea, and EZGIF. Animated Artwork Used in: Movie artwork Movie sets artwork Music Video artwork TV-Show artwork Still experimental, but Kodi has basic support for displaying animated artwork, and two artwork types have a decent collection of animated options: posters and fanart for movies. The most comprehensive support for animated artwork is Skin Helper Service, which has taken to naming these as "animatedposter" and "animatedfanart". New animated movie posters (and textless posters / keyart which could be named "animatedkeyart") are often posted to this forum thread. Limitations of animated artwork Kodi's support for displaying animated artwork is basic, and does have some limitations. Limitation 1- Kodi does not save animated artwork to the texture cache and will not play them (only displaying the first frame) unless they are stored on a client-local file system. ie- Animated artwork will not work across networks. Limitation 2- There is a hard limit on the number of pixels in a single animated artwork. The size of animated artwork is limited to roughly 12 frames of 1920x1080. This limit is defined as fully decoded pixels. The trend for animated posters is for smaller images with more frames (a recent "animatedposter" is 500x713 with 60 frames). Kodi will discard any remaining frames after it has reached this limit, which will probably hitch unpleasantly, so obeying this limit is important. Technically this limit is 11 frames but Kodi will decode full frames until it has decoded MORE than this, so the calculation is 1920 × 1080 = 2,073,600 * 11 (frames) = 22,809,600 pixels plus one more frame https://i.ibb.co/crrx6vV/Young-Woman-and-the-Sea-2024-v1-1.png https://i.imgur.com/FPCxv1T.gif
seanbuff 1315 Posted May 17, 2025 Posted May 17, 2025 FYI - Animated posters are already supported on detail screens. Please follow and contribute to the discussion over there if you have something to add. Thanks.
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