playing .gif file hogs 100% cpu

I ran across an animated .gif file that was just SO great, I had to have and share it. Thing is, it ran great while viewing it from it's original location, yet once I saved it and ran it on my machine, within Windows Picture and Fax viewer, within an Outlook e-mail, and by dragging it onto an IE& webpage, well...it runs agonizingly slow and I notice within Task Manager that it's hogging all of my CPU resources!

I have learned from ~extensive~ web searching that some animation settings made when creating an animated .gif can cause weirdness...something about a zero millisecond setting somewhere...anyway, I'm just learning about animated .gif's....

I did a search on my machine for "*.gif" and tried many of them. It seems that a couple also caused agonizing slowness...so....

What's up with all that?

I hope someone here can take me from endarkenment to enlightenment.

TIA

drcarl

Win XP SP2, 512 MB NON-upgradeable RAM, pagefile 1000-2000 across 3 different dives (not partitions), Sony laptop, um, what else? -10 MBPS isp connection?

 

I'm no gifspert but when I have an avi that will not play nice I reconvert it with virtual dub and that usually solves the problem. Irfanview is freeware that will open and save as .gif. It can't hurt, open it with irfanview and then save as .gif but with a new name and see if the new file is any better.

 

Thanx App...

I've spent WAY too much time with this puzzle.

Got me a copy of irfanview, opened the gif there, tried to "save as" it, but the resulting gif is 2 KB and not an animated 125 KB file.

Tried all kinds of other things...learned a bit along the way..."woke up" and realize that aside from the learning experience, I have no reason to be doing this...

All my best,

drcarl

 

The only other thing I can think of trying would be to use Irfan View to extract the gif as individual bitmap images and if they come out all in order as expected reform them back into a gif. I have done it before to do some editing and its not too difficult. If a ll you get is one image then I'm stumped.

 

Hi App - thanx for the input. I tried Irfanview to view, and another program I found to edit. Alas, I also discovered that the time I was spending on that puzzle far outweighed its importance so for now have abandoned it all together. Again, thanx.