Topic awaiting preservation: GIF Animation Woes In IE

Well, I have my entry for this month's sig contest all ready to go, except for one slight problem. The animation should run at 20 frames per second, and it does run at 20 fps in Netscape, but in IE 6 it slows down to 10 fps. I've tried everything, but I can't get a faster frame rate than 10 fps in IE. I know this can be done because my toaster animation from two months ago has one frame in there that goes by pretty fast--I'm pretty sure it's at least 20 fps (or maybe I just thought it was).

Now, running at 10 fps is not going to sink my animation, but it sure looks a lot nicer running at 20 fps, and I had to stick in two extra frames at 10 fps to smooth things out. If this is a bug in IE 6 then I guess I don't have much of a choice. Does anyone know anything about this, and why I might be having problems? If I can't figure this out soon, I guess I'll just have to submit it as is, seeing as the month is rapidly coming to a close. Any help would be appreciated.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be off to my graduation ceremony.




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Not sure if this helps, but I had a similar problem and resolved it by setting the frame delay for each frame. If I remember correctly, NN reads animations differently than IE, so if the delays aren`t specified they run at different speeds.
If that`s not it, I dunno.

<edit>Oh, yea. Congrats, and make sure you pick up your own hat at the end. You never know where those other hats have been..</edit>




[This message has been edited by docilebob (edited 08-28-2002).]

my motto is:

anyone that uses Netscape should be brought down, right to the ground *SLAM , POW,... THUD*

ahhhhh airplane

[This message has been edited by InSiDeR (edited 08-28-2002).]

db: Thanks for the advice (and the congrats). Unfortunately, I think I've got a different problem on my hands. I tried setting the frame rate for each separate frame a number of times; I started with 50 fps and worked my way down until what I was seeing in the preview screen matched what I was seeing in IE, and it ended up being 10 fps. I remember running into this problem before and somehow solving it, but I don't remember how. I have a sinking feeling that I didn't do anything special, it just suddenly decided to work. So I guess I'll mess around with it some more and maybe it will catch. Or something. I don't know.

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anyone that uses Netscape should be brought down, right to the ground *SLAM , POW,... THUD*

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InSiDeR: Firstly, I would like to thank you for that very helpful reply. Secondly, I use Netscape as well as IE (and even Opera occasionally), depending on my mood. So if the above comment applies to me, all I have to say is: bring it on, and we'll see who ends up thudding.

[The management would like to note that the above comment was made half in jest. Thank you.]

Hey, Insider didn't get that post count just sittin around...

oh wait... yes... that's most likely how he got that post count.

What proggie are you creating your gifs in?

Well Master Suho, are you using ImageReady to do the animation? I do know that Netscape is much faster with Ani .Gifs than IE...

My suggestion (if you are using IR), is to remove the 'time' delay (per frame) altogether, and see how it runs...in IE. If it is still too slow, then maybe it is too big. If it is too fast, then you can start implementing time in each frame...

Don't forget to optimize your .GIF...

IE generally makes GIF's 10FPS when no frame delay is set. Netscape doesn't do this, and runs the animation as fast as it can. The only thing I an suggest is setting the delay as low as possible. (check if you can set the delay to 0 seconds instead of 'no delay')

Actually, I'm using the GIF Construction Set from Alchemy Mindworks. That's pretty much all I can say right now, considering I don't have full control of all of my faculties right now (graduation==heavy drinking). I will see if I can set the delay to 0, although this will most likely have to be done tomorrow. Thanks all.

By any chance is your GIF is very big ? it could just be running as fast as it can display .. maybe ?

It's pretty large for a sig, but it's not that big. It's smaller than Drac's sig (the one in this month's contest), for example. At this point I'm considering going back and tweaking it a bit so it looks smoother at 10 fps, and then making it 10 fps from the start (so I get the same results in both IE and Netscape). Like I said, it still works at that speed, but it just aggravates me that it doesn't work the way I want it to. And it looks much nicer at 20 fps. *Sigh*