XF 1.1 animated avatars do not work when resized even with imagick

[king of the internet]

I have imagemagick enabled and am running XF 1.1.5. When I upload an animated gif for an avatar, the resized version is not animated. Furthermore, it is being saved as a .jpg.

This thread http://xenforo.com/community/thread...ion-animated-avatars-not-working.17660/page-4 seems to suggest this was a bug that was fixed. And there are a ton of other threads on this issue but I couldn't seem to get any useful advice out of them.

Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS, php 5.3.10-1, imagick 3.1.0RC1

 

[Jeremy]

What image formats are supported on your server? Can be found under PHP info (admin.php?tools/phpinfo) and under the ImageMagick supported formats.

 

[king of the internet]

3FR, A, AAI, AI, ART, ARW, AVI, AVS, B, BGR, BGRA, BMP, BMP2, BMP3, BRF, C, CAL, CALS, CANVAS, CAPTION, CIN, CIP, CLIP, CMYK, CMYKA, CR2, CRW, CUR, CUT, DCM, DCR, DCX, DDS, DFONT, DNG, DPX, EPDF, EPI, EPS, EPS2, EPS3, EPSF, EPSI, EPT, EPT2, EPT3, ERF, FAX, FITS, FRACTAL, FTS, G, G3, GIF, GIF87, GRADIENT, GRAY, GROUP4, HALD, HDR, HISTOGRAM, HRZ, HTM, HTML, ICB, ICO, ICON, INFO, INLINE, IPL, ISOBRL, J2C, JNG, JP2, JPC, JPEG, JPG, JPX, K, K25, KDC, LABEL, M, M2V, M4V, MAC, MAP, MAT, MATTE, MIFF, MNG, MONO, MOV, MP4, MPC, MPEG, MPG, MRW, MSL, MTV, MVG, NEF, NULL, O, ORF, OTB, OTF, PAL, PALM, PAM, PATTERN, PBM, PCD, PCDS, PCL, PCT, PCX, PDB, PDF, PDFA, PEF, PES, PFA, PFB, PFM, PGM, PGX, PICON, PICT, PIX, PJPEG, PLASMA, PNG, PNG24, PNG32, PNG8, PNM, PPM, PREVIEW, PS, PS2, PS3, PSB, PSD, PTIF, PWP, R, RADIAL-GRADIENT, RAF, RAS, RGB, RGBA, RGBO, RLA, RLE, SCR, SCT, SFW, SGI, SHTML, SR2, SRF, STEGANO, SUN, TEXT, TGA, THUMBNAIL, TIFF, TIFF64, TILE, TIM, TTC, TTF, TXT, UBRL, UIL, UYVY, VDA, VICAR, VID, VIFF, VST, WBMP, WMV, WPG, X, X3F, XBM, XC, XCF, XPM, XPS, XV, XWD, Y, YCbCr, YCbCrA, YUV

 

[Jeremy]

Hm. It seems like you have support for all the file types in there. What is the link to an animated avatar that isn't working (ie, is it becoming a .gif)?

 

[king of the internet]

http://www.smogon.com/forums/data/avatars/l/0/1.jpg?1373231389 - animated, despite weird jpg extension
http://www.smogon.com/forums/data/avatars/m/0/1.jpg?1373231389 - not animated
http://www.smogon.com/forums/data/avatars/s/0/1.jpg?1373231389 - not animated

 

[CTXMedia]

Can you upload the file you're trying to use as the avatar - that way others can try it and test whether it's a problem with the file itself.

 

[king of the internet]

http://sprites.pokecheck.org/i/250.gif

 

[Steve F]

Works on my installs.

Running

imagick module - 3.0.1 (Not RC it wouldnt work for me )
ImageMagick 6.5.4-7

 

[king of the internet]

odd... by the way, my imagemagick version is 6.6.9-7.

on http://pecl.php.net/package/imagick it says 3.10RC1 is 'beta'; that's weird that ubuntu LTS would install this version. I can try to downgrade.

 

[king of the internet]

downgrading to 3.0.1 fixes the problem. everyone running ubuntu 12.04 LTS will have this problem, might help to have a guide somewhere.

apt-get install libmagickwand-dev php-pear
apt-get remove php5-imagick
pecl install imagick
then add extension=imagick.so to php.ini

 

[TPerry]

downgrading to 3.0.1 fixes the problem. everyone running ubuntu 12.04 LTS will have this problem, might help to have a guide somewhere.

I'm running Debian 7.0 on my servers and using 3.1.0RC2 of imagick module and ImageMagick 6.7.7-10.
Only time that happened to me was when I had GD designated in the Attachments section in ACP. Once I clicked on ImageMagick PECL Extension and saved it I could use the supplied image anywhere as animated.
I'm pretty sure that you can use dot.deb with Ubuntu - and I think you will get the latest from there.