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On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:09:33 +0000, Eli the Bearded wrote:

> In comp.sys.raspberry-pi, A. Dumas <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> wrote:
>> On 09/12/2015 21:11, Eli the Bearded wrote:
>>> What software, particularly anything provided by NOOBS, would work for
>>> playing scaled-to-fullscreen animated GIFs without the overhead of
>>> X11?
>> Great idea. Some suggestions from search "framebuffer animated gif":
>> https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=65346&p=495665
> 
> I do actually use search engines before posting and I had found that.
> When I tried omxplayer it did nothing. Well it printed a line of text,
> but no images, no error messages, and it doesn't seem to have a verbose
> mode. The SimpleMC (where MC seems to be Media Center) there seems to be
> overkill.
> 
> I intend to try the zgv tool mentioned by the other respondent, but have
> not had the time yet.
> 
> Elijah ------
> remembers a time before google

Try 'fbi' - no, I'm not kidding.