Animated gif

[kleisauke]

Animated gif [7998564]

Submitted by Seung Yeon, You on 17-5-2015 0:00:00
1 votes on UserVoice prior to migration

animated gif support will be amazing.
It will be easy if you don't support resize or crop animated gif.

Response

by Andries Louw Wolthuizen on 17-5-2015 0:00:00

We don’t support animated gifs (anymore). With the current loads it’s too computational intensive for our servers to process every frame of .gif-files.
Technically, we also don’t proxy files bit-for-bit, instead, the first frame of every image get’s processed towards a bitmap, which we eventually recode into (for example) an JPEG-file. This is where the animation (or any non-image-bit) gets lost. This behavior is by-design, to preserve as much bandwidth as possible.
Animated gifs would cause tens to hundreds times more bandwidth. Images.weserv.nl is for resizing, not for hosting nor circumventing hotlinking-protection.
I would advise you to write your own code and setup hosting for animated gifs.

Original UserVoice Submission

[kleisauke]

Support for animated images has been implemented in API version 5. See:
https://images.weserv.nl/news/2019/09/01/introducing-api-5/#support-for-animated-images
https://images.weserv.nl/docs/format.html#number-of-pages