Animated stickers stop playing instead of looping about magane HOT 7 CLOSED

It's not an issue with either Magane or Discord, but LINE itself. Magane hosts the stickers, but as far as I know, they were taken straight from the LINE store.
In LINE store, animated stickers are actually APNGs (Animate PNGs), and unfortunately they aren't set on infinite loop.
Take this sticker for example: https://stickershop.line-scdn.net/stickershop/v1/sticker/52526392/IOS/[email protected];compress=true
That's straight from the LINE store, as you can tell by the domain, and it'll only play for a few moments before stopping permanently (at least until the page is refreshed).
It's just how it is in LINE. I got the same sticker in my LINE and it'll also stop playing after a while.

from magane.

Ahh, that explains it, thanks for clarifying. I guess I just have to get used to it then.

Though it would be really useful if Magane could somehow reset the animations whenever you open the stickers panel, because otherwise they're always frozen after the first time you see them.

from magane.

Yeah this is quite challenging actually.
LINE provides animated PNGs which is some really obscure thing, so I locally convert them to gif before uploading to Magane but apparently they lose the loop property.

I'm currently converting them with apng2gif via console, so if someone comes up with a better solution that involves ffmpeg or some other tool I'll look into it.

from magane.

I'm currently converting them with apng2gif via console, so if someone comes up with a better solution that involves ffmpeg or some other tool I'll look into it.

Well, this is a bit awkward. I tried ffmpeg -i sticker.png sticker.gif just now and it correctly gave out an infinite loop GIF of the animated PNG (I used the one I linked previously), without having to add any other extra options.

I built mine from source though, last I updated a month ago I think.

from magane.

Ok that definitely didn't work when I tried a few months ago, I'll try to update this weekend and see if the prebuilt binaries work now.

from magane.

LINE stickers play a few times by LINE's design. If you were to open apng files of them, they'd play ~two times and stop. IIRC, frames are repeated for that.

from magane.

resolved in Pitu/Magane-server@21c9cf1

from magane.