243892 - GIF animations play too fast and pause

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 232769

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Tench]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

GIF animations play very fast and pause occasionaly

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to any webpage with a gif animation from my computer
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
GIF animations play very fast and pause occasionaly

Expected Results:  
animations should play at a consistent speed

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

can you attach one GIF showing the issue and also test this with 1.7RC2 ?

Comment 2

[Michael Tench]

Attachment: gif animation at 1/100

on my computer this animation always pauses at least once every second or so

Comment 3

[Michael Tench]

Attachment: gif animation at 500/100

this animation plays very fast and occasionally pauses for a second or so.

I'm not having this problem with Mozilla under RedHat and I don't remember if
it behaves the same way on a Macintosh.  Also this is on a slow computer k6-2
500, though processor load is not high and internet explorer renders the
animations correctly after cycling through them once.

there are several good timing examples at :
http://www.theimage.com/animation/timing/timing.htm

Comment 4

[Michael Tench]

This bug is still present in 1.7rc2

Comment 5

[:glob ✱]

all animations (attached and at theimage.com) work as expected for me.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040509
Firefox/0.8.0+

Comment 6

[Michael Tench]

does this mean that this is behaviour exhibited by my system (and maybe other
low end systems), though not generally a proper bug?

Comment 7

[Robin Knapp]

Look at this image:
http://img.homepagemodules.de/flash.gif

It should change coler at moderate speed (approximately 5 changes per second),
in firefox 0.9 it drives me crazy when someone posts this image in a forum (It's
a build-in smiley at [forum-id].homepagemodules.com)

In firefox 0.8 (official windows build) the speed was "right" (compared to IE6).

I remember seeing this fast speed on exactly the same image file in rather old
versions of firefox.

Comment 8

[Ant]

Not sure if this is the exactly the same issue. I do not have pause problems.
See http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/9018/SDntsc.gif,
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/356/scooter.gif, and
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/109/Untitled4324324324.gif ... They animate too
fast on my Athlon XP 2200+ with Mozilla v1.7 in Windows XP Professional SP1 (all
updates). I did not have this problem in v1.6 before I upgraded. IE6.0 SP1
showed the speed just fine.

Comment 9

[zug_treno]

The 2 attached images play at normal speed without pauses (Mozilla rv:1.8a2
Gecko/20040613). It seems that the animations in comment 7 and comment 8 have a
delay time of only 3 ms, so it might be related to bug 68104 and its dupes.

Component Image:GFX? 

Comment 10

[Steve Chapel]

Dupe of bug 232769?

Comment 11

[Steve Chapel]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 232769 ***