Consolidate log images and links

[+frinklabs]

I uploaded an animated GIF and the system converted into a JPG

 

The thumbnail image that is visible in the gallery and the large version to which it links are hosted at img.geocaching.com and these versions showed only the first frame of the animation.   The large link is also used in the cache listing log entry image link.

 

If I click on the view log link for my log entry, the page to which I am directed has a scaled version of the img.geocaching.com version of the image, but when I click on that, it takes me to the version that is hosted on s3.amazonaws.com and is a fully animated JPG.

 

Any way to always link to the animated version?

[Moun10Bike]

Thumbnails and other resized versions of uploaded images are created on demand by the third-party image handler we use and essentially resave the original image in other formats as needed. This breaks animation as the image handler is not designed to handle animated JPEGs. You need to use a direct link to the original image (in this case, this) in order to view the animated version.

[+Pontiac_CZ]

Just a technical note - JPEG does not support animation, the image is still GIF inside. It only has a JPG extension.

[+thebruce0]

Standard JPG, no.  Motion-JPEG, yes   But it's not really useful as more than a quick way to display many jpegs in succession. It's not nearly as optimized or compressed as a true video format. It was more an intermediate step for digital cameras to create short video streams at the pace they could capture photos, without dealing with a more complex codec.  GIF is the more versatile and compatible animation format, before true video formats or more recent vector graphic formats.

[+DaffyDuck53]

Many times I did place animated banners on my cachepages on geocaching.com.
There were never problems, till last week.
I made a new banner (animated GIF) and placed it on a new cachepage, but is won’t work properly.
It will not animate.
The URL is https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/2be42737-1752-434f-96e7-f4b338240164_l.gif
I changed it to https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/2be42737-1752-434f-96e7-f4b338240164.gif to let it work.
Who can tell me what is going wrong? Is there an solution for this problem?
 

[+arisoft]

8 minutes ago, DaffyDuck53 said:

Who can tell me what is going wrong? Is there an solution for this problem?
 

Nothing is wrong. The first image is a retouched version of the original (second) image.

By the way - I did not see any animation in either image.

[+DaffyDuck53]

This is exactly the problem; It is a animated image, but it doesn't move.

[+arisoft]

12 minutes ago, DaffyDuck53 said:

This is exactly the problem; It is a animated image, but it doesn't move.

Do you have a link to the original image which animates?

[+baer2006]

17 hours ago, DaffyDuck53 said:

Many times I did place animated banners on my cachepages on geocaching.com.
There were never problems, till last week.
I made a new banner (animated GIF) and placed it on a new cachepage, but is won’t work properly.
It will not animate.
The URL is https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/2be42737-1752-434f-96e7-f4b338240164_l.gif
I changed it to https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/2be42737-1752-434f-96e7-f4b338240164.gif to let it work.
Who can tell me what is going wrong? Is there an solution for this problem?
 

The files have the extension GIF, but they are actually in JPEG format, which - as others have said - doesn't support animation.

My guess is that the website silently converts any image you upload to JPEG. I'm not sure, but I think the issue of silent image format conversion has come up from time to time over the years. At some time it might have been possible to upload GIF and PNG files unaltered, but it doesn't seem to work right now.

[+kunarion]

It looks like an upload to this Forum works, for now.  I don't know where you'd consistently be allowed to place such a file, maybe in Avatar Testing or Off Topic.  Once posted, the URL is easy to find. But it's a URL, a web address, not an embedded image in a cache log or gallery.

 

 

 

Edited July 27, 2017 by kunarion
Clarification

[+DaffyDuck53]

This is the working image.
I want to upload it to geocaching.com.

Edited July 27, 2017 by DaffyDuck53

[+kunarion]

14 minutes ago, DaffyDuck53 said:

This is the working image.
I want to upload it to geocaching.com.

 

Once uploaded to this Forum, your GIF has a URL:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-forums-gc/monthly_2017_07/banner-nano1-9.gif.7e1c33cdfc9bb1e0cfd14c848104eb01.gif

 

I added that to my cache page...

https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5878N_son-of-boxzilla?guid=86af29db-1c1a-49f6-b1f0-a7fc3fcee55a

 

Using this IMG tag:

<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-forums-gc/monthly_2017_07/banner-nano1-9.gif.7e1c33cdfc9bb1e0cfd14c848104eb01.gif" border="0" hspace="10" vspace="5" />

 

... and it's animated as intended.

This is different than what the OP wants. The thumbnail image in a cache log doesn't link to an animated GIF.  But you can post the URL in a cache log.

 

 

 

Edited July 27, 2017 by kunarion
Speling

[+DaffyDuck53]

Yes, thank you.
On my cache page the banner works fine now.

[+thebruce0]

Note that if you're linking the image that's in the forum here, then if the image disappears for any reason it'll be broken on the cache page. You'll want to use the listing gallery or a 3rd party host. Just fyi

[+DaffyDuck53]

I now use the link in this forum, it's working.

If I upload the picture to the Gallery of my cache page, the structure of the gif image changes in a jpg format. Thereby the animation no longer works.
In previous cases, it has always gone well.
What is the error while uploading to https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/ 
Is there a solution allowing me to upload the banner to the Gallery on my cache page?

[+thebruce0]

Perhaps you should start a bug report thread in the website forum - if uploading animated GIFs to a listing gallery used to work and doesn't any more, then it could be a bug to be dealt with. Other caches may also be affected. Maybe in one release they decided to disallow animated GIFs.  (I haven't made effort to test this out myself, just fyi).  But a new report thread could be warranted to address the issue.

[+DaffyDuck53]

Another animated banner I want to use was placed on GeoCheck.org and is working.

 

 

Edited October 20, 2017 by DaffyDuck53