Thread: Uploading animated GIF's, how???

I am trying to upload animated .gif image, but i get this error:

"Image Name Error type

Scything-Motion.gif Error resizing image/ creating thumbnail."

the image is 450/337 pixels, 40kb. Are there size limitations or what???

I have run up against the same thing numerous times. I have been unable to create a "classified" because of it. I also cannot put an animated gif in my folder in the Gallery. Let the webmaster know.

Randy,
Maybe the Classifieds s/w doesn't support gifs -- the add new ad screen says

Please JPG, JPEG or PNG only, up to 50KB !
Thumbnail will be 40 x 30 pixels.

In general the pic you're uploading of an item for sale is the actual item and would normally be a jpeg, which is the file output format of most digital cameras. However, items wanted would, for me at least, include a picture I copied from the internet somewhere and would likely be either a gif or jpeg. I'm not sure why you'd need it animated, but bottom line, there's no logical reason why the s/w shouldn't support gif, animated or not. David (aka THQ) will have to figure this one out with the s/w source.

Superfly,
Are you having problems uploading an avatar or a classified? AFAIK, both have size limitations -- classifieds as mentioned above and avatars are

Note: The maximum size of your custom image is 80 by 80 pixels or 19.5 KB
(whichever is smaller).

which is spelled out in the custom avatar section of the Edit Avatar screen. BTW, when I extracted a few frames from the Buggs Bunny "Rabbit of Seville" cartoon to make my avatar, the 19.5KB limit allowed me to only have about 6 frames of action in my animated gif -- the clip I wanted to use was close to 200KB with 50+ frames, but I realize people on dial-up internet connections would have killed me if they had to wait for that to download everytime they displayed one of my posts

I am trying to upload animated .gif file of a scyting motion Randy requested. I thought it would be more clear if the picture is animated rather than explaining the motion with words and arrows. Anyways, Randy got the file via e-mail, and for the rest, it will be here when the anm .gif issue is resolved...

Hey guys.. The classifieds won't take animated anything.. Right now they aren't uploading at all. But you can link from a webpage.. I'll have the uploading into the classifieds fixed shortly..

Uploading animated gifs.. To where? In the Help Files, or the gallery??

dw

Uploading them to the galery, then linking them in the posts. At least that is how I put pics in the posts...I don't have web page to put them and link...

Ok... I don't think that the gallery will do animated gifs.. When they're uploaded they're resized, and I don't think that the standard library will work on them..

However.. The help files should let you upload it and then link from the forums..

I know it's not as pretty as the gallery, but it should work... Let me know..

Thanks
David

The help files section won't upload, its giving me "unautorized acsess" message. Also, I was not able to upload the video files couple of months ago, it was another error message...

David, I will send you the files via e-mail, so please upload them into help section. They are the two honning animations, one stropping (which is there already) and a hanging hair test and scyting motion. Or, PM me with way to upload them myself.

Thanx,
Nenad

What are the file extensions of the files?

dw

The animations are .avi files, compressed with xvid codec (for small size), just like the superfly_stropping animation you put in the help section, and the animated .gif is, well, .gif file, with 4 or so frames...