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Thank you, JonahUK, for your fair and supportive words, they really mean a lot, i really appreciate you stepping in with clarity.

Just to make things clear for everyone:
This is a personal project, completely independent from any group, including CORE , COINS-OPS, etc...

I?m still actively working on the project, which includes several moving parts: custom theme design, integrated add-ons, and a heavily modified RetroFE build. Its a one-person effort, and development takes time, especially since Im learning, testing, and refining everything along the way.

For example, this past week I reworked the Search Results pop-up, which was previously pointing to an incorrect menuIndex. Fixing that meant exploring deeper layout logic and addressing new issues as they come up. Its been both a challenge and a learning experience definitely an adventure (and a bit of a brain pain 😅).

Once everything is stable and polished, I plan to release the modified RetroFE source code, in full respect of the GPL-3.0 license. Other parts of the project, such as add-ons, will be provided in a compiled form when ready everything is being prepared carefully to ensure it works well together.

Thanks again for your encouragement, and for everyone's patience. I'm looking forward to sharing the results as soon as everything is ready.

Works as an add-on is in C# so can't send PR I can share the addon if interested, I have outhers addons all in C# as all games, all favs, all last played, all real time update wen using RetroFE. If retrofe had a discord channel will be easy and probably can eveluat more as it is stop almost 1yr. RetroFE is a great FE , the SDL 2 library s already support animated GIFs and webp. Just need updates, mines are in vs2002 so isn't compatible to PR 😔

Yes its possible i forgot call it the function that is in the line 97-111... alredy update code, my mistake....
P.S. The red logs that could show,(to me only happens with H.264 but all plays well)  ex [H264 @ 0000485823782] no frame!,  it comes directly from FFmpeg lib(for what i read until now can't hide), however, if video plays normal  and are not causing any issues, ignor them. These messages often occur when the decoder encounters corrupt or incomplete video frames, which might happen in certain edge cases or with specific types of video streams.

I know...  ADDED VIDEO ..
But i managed it...
menu - always start´s auto wen selected.
then add 5 options to layout with frameloop = playLoop , playInverted , playOnce , playInvertedOnce, noPlay

I know you can make it bether, if you think is a good upgrade, it will be in Visual Studio Version Git, i alredy left here the address. As soon as i can i will update it, the source will be all there.
almost 1 year studding retrofe source.

updates during time...

0.10.31 -- Original

0 -- Updated for Visual Studio 2019 compiler

1 -- Update SDL Libs

2 -- Fix keyboard double click wen click once

3 -- Add Webp support and static Gif´s

4 -- Add Animated Gif´s support to logos (buttons)

5 -- Add play animation only if select

6 -- Add option Animated Gif´s to layout

7 -- Fix animation support layout (ex. charters)

8 -- Add Layout new arguments and framloop options for gif´s --animeimage and --frameloop"" ex.

<animeimage src="images/logo.gif" alpha="0" x="right" y="bottom" xOrigin="right" yOrigin="bottom" height="300" layer="17" frameloop="playLoop">
      <onMenuEnter menuIndex="0"><set duration=".25"><animate type="alpha" to="1"/></set></onMenuEnter>
      <onMenuExit  menuIndex="0"><set duration=".25"><animate type="alpha" to="0"/></set></onMenuExit>
</animeimage>

frameloop = playLoop , playInverted , playOnce , playInvertedOnce

9 -- Add icon to Retrofe

10 -- Add new argument to framloop="noPlay"

11 -- fix LEDBlinkyCloseOnExit which if set to yes will default to closing ledblinky when retrofe closes -- tks to jlvandusen
P.S. i problably will not support fixes or new updates.
Tks.

Hello again, here i am, again talking about gif´s to retrofe
I found a guy that manage how to add gif to SDL2, i made some update to the code (to work) and tested in an stand alone SDL2 project  ( SDL2-2.0.14) and is playing gif animation.
isn´t perfect as  im not a programer as you alredy know.

its has option to update to layout designers

----- gif loops forward
----- gif will run from first frame to latest then stop
----- gif will loop forth and back
----- gif loops backward
----- gif will run from first frame to latest then stop(reverse)
----- animation is stopped and is reset to display the first logical frame

Problably dont need all options for start.

Dont know if you are interessed, if  yes i send you my SDL2 test project, then i can try help add it to retrofe (im slower ) (problably test and try find the errors is my think)

Hi Pieter,  thanks for answer i think is need 1st update libpng version, but i think is more than 2 lines as it needs "decode" apng to png frames then play it.
As it isn't add apng to ImageBuilder it will read only 1st frame (as png), as SDL supports png i think it will work with apng.
the option isn't only logos, as with it we can have fanart/ system/collection background img animated, all we can imagine add to the layout as it works with transparency.
I understand this one men dev and you will not have time for it at less you showed willingness to innovate and interest
Thanks

https://youtu.be/9VXUmKAn_DY
How to create apng
I understand the no interess
Thanks for time
Have nice day

Agent47 - Animated logos, is one of the points, tht we don't use videos our static img(png, jpg, etc) as a logo, nobody creates apngs, if you say so... I even don't know why I'm answering you as you are a bad person as I saw in the erased subject before, and for wht I saw until now you don't have Willingness to innovate, in my humilde opinion we can't stop in time just bcs it all works, and was only one idea for dev, not for an moderator that in almost all subjects only knows is complaining. Sorry for make retrofe forum team lose time with my small idea. Was last for sure.
Have a nice day