[FFmpeg-user] looping an animated gif

[Michael Koch]

Am 09.07.2021 um 08:49 schrieb Gyan Doshi:
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> On 2021-07-09 12:07, Michael Koch wrote:
>> Hello,
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>> I want to overlay an animated gif over a video. The gif must be 
>> looped because it's much shorter than the video. I did try the "-loop 
>> 1" option, but I get the error message "Option loop not found". 
>> However, the loop option works fine for jpg images. How can an 
>> animated gif be looped?
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> GIF has a dedicated demuxer.  See  ffmpeg -h demuxer=gif
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> There's a boolean option called -ignore loop. You can also apply 
> -stream_loop.

-ignore_loop 0  did solve the problem.

Thank you!
Michael